01834nam a2200289 i 4500 189739 InACL 20260928161056.0 260928s2002 xxk 0 eng d 9780198159827 019815982X InACL eng rda InACL 840.972 GAL 23 Gallagher, Mary author Soundings in French Caribbean writing since 1950 : the shock of space and time / Mary Gallagher London : Oxford University Press, 2002 293 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "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 Caribbean literature (French) -- History and criticism Space and time in literature Caribbean literature (French) History and criticism Caribbean literature, history and criticism 633355 633355 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL GEN 2026-09-28 0 840.972 GAL 189739 2026-09-28 16:10:56 2026-09-28 BK