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003			InACL
005			20260928161056.0
008			260928s2002 xxk 0 eng d
020			_a9780198159827
020			_a019815982X
040			_aInACL _beng _erda _cInACL
082	0	4	_a840.972 _bGAL _223
100	1		_aGallagher, Mary _eauthor
245	1	0	_aSoundings in French Caribbean writing since 1950 : _bthe shock of space and time / _cMary Gallagher
264		1	_aLondon : _bOxford University Press, _c2002
300			_a293 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_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
650		0	_aCaribbean literature (French) -- History and criticism
650		0	_aSpace and time in literature
650		0	_aCaribbean literature (French)
650		0	_aHistory and criticism
650		0	_aCaribbean literature, history and criticism
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