01803nam a2200277 i 4500001000700000003000600007005001700013008004100030020001800071020001500089040002700104082002100131100002800152245010200180264004500282300001400327336002600341337002800367338002700395520090300422650005901325650003301384650003401417650002601451650004801477189739InACL20260928161056.0260928s2002    xxk               0 eng d  a9780198159827  a019815982X  aInACLbengerdacInACL04a840.972bGAL2231 aGallagher, Maryeauthor10aSoundings in French Caribbean writing since 1950 :bthe shock of space and time /cMary Gallagher 1aLondon :bOxford University Press,c2002  a293 pages  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"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 0aCaribbean literature (French) -- History and criticism 0aSpace and time in literature 0aCaribbean literature (French) 0aHistory and criticism 0aCaribbean literature, history and criticism