Architextual Authenticity

Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean

Jason Herbeck (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2017
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-78694-039-1 (ISBN)

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Construction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the present, and under the varying guises of independence, departmentalization, dictatorship, overseas collectivity and occupation. Given the strictures and structures of colonialism long imposed upon the colonized subject, the (re)makings of identity have proven anything but evident when it comes to determining authentic expressions and perceptions of the postcolonial self. By way of close readings of both constructions in literature and the construction of literature, Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean proposes an original, informative frame of reference for understanding the long and ever-evolving struggle for social, cultural, historical and political autonomy in the region. Taking as its point of focus diverse canonical and lesser-known texts from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti published between 1958 and 2013, this book examines the trope of the house (architecture) and the meta-textual construction of texts (architexture) as a means of conceptualizing and articulating how authentic means of expression are and have been created in French-Caribbean literature over the greater part of the past half-century—whether it be in the context of the years leading up to or following the departmentalization of France’s overseas colonies in the 1940’s, the wrath of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, or the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010.

Jason Herbeck is Professor of French at Boise State University (Idaho). His research focuses primarily on evolving narrative forms in twentieth and twenty-first-century French and French-Caribbean literatures, and how these forms relate to expressions and constructions of identity. In addition to many articles and book chapters devoted to the literatures and histories of Haiti, Martinique and Guadeloupe, he has also published widely on Albert Camus and is, since 2009, President of the North American Section of the Société des Études Camusiennes.

Introduction: Questioning the Construction of Dogma

1. Past and Present Matter(s): Vernacular Architecture, the Caribbean House and the Building Blocks of Literature

2. Righting/Writing the Faulted House in Édouard Glissant’s La Lézarde

3. Gouverneurs de la… Mangrove: Architextual Authenticity in Maryse Condé’s Traversée de la Mangrove

4. Reflections on Interior Design: Daniel Maximin’s L’Île et une nuit

5. Literature of Reconstruction: An Architextual Assessment of Post-Earthquake Haiti in Yanick Lahens’s Failles and Guillaume et Nathalie

Conclusion: Reconquering Dimensions: No Place Like Home

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Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2017
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures ; 47
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-78694-039-6 / 1786940396
ISBN-13	978-1-78694-039-1 / 9781786940391
Zustand	Neuware