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Soundings in French Caribbean writing since 1950 : (Record no. 633355)
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| fixed length control field | 01834nam a2200289 i 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 260928s2002 xxk 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780198159827 |
| ISBN | 019815982X |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 840.972 |
| Item number | GAL |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Gallagher, Mary |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Soundings in French Caribbean writing since 1950 : |
| Sub Title | the shock of space and time / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Mary Gallagher |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 293 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "Since 1950, a flow of theoretically resonant and poetically potent writing has emerged from the French Caribbean. Much of the passion and appeal of this work - by authors such as Edouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, Simone Schwarz-Bart, and Daniel Maximin - lies in its approach to time and to space, an approach still reverberating with the shock of displacement and its various after-tremors: the far-reaching exproporiations of enslavement; a bracing sense of diversity; the charge of dislocation; the creative potential of radical relativization and relationality.""Through readings of high-profile as well as less acclaimed writing, Soundings in French Caribbean Writing tracks some of the more striking tensions and tropisms informing the French Caribbean imagination of space and time. Whether probing Joseph Zobel's configuration of plantation and urban time-space, or registering the rel |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Caribbean literature (French) -- History and criticism |
| Topical Term | Space and time in literature |
| Topical Term | Caribbean literature (French) |
| Topical Term | History and criticism |
| Topical Term | Caribbean literature, history and criticism |
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| -- | London : |
| -- | Oxford University Press, |
| -- | 2002 |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 28.09.2026 | 840.972 GAL | 189739 | 28.09.2026 | Books |