| Soundings in French Caribbean Writing 1950-2000: The Shock of Space and Time Contributor(s): Gallagher, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 019815982X ISBN-13: 9780198159827 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $194.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2003 Annotation: Since 1950, French Caribbean writers have attracted international attention to their work and to their lively exploration of the unique circumstances that detonated this literary explosion. This book probes their particularly intense, even fraught sensitivity to space and to time, highlighting the insights that they offer into global issues of distance and displacement, history and memory, and into the possibilities and constraints of writing. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Reference - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 840.972 |
| LCCN: 2002070205 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.46" W x 8.74" (1.19 lbs) 302 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Since 1950, French Caribbean writers have attracted international attention to their work and to their lively exploration of the unique circumstances that detonated this literary explosion. This book probes their particularly intense, even fraught sensitivity to space and to time, highlighting the insights that they offer into global issues of distance and displacement, history and memory, and into the possibilities and constraints of writing. |