Voicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature - Couverture souple

Nesbitt, Nick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813921511 ISBN 13 : 9780813921518

Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 2003

Synopsis

In Voicing Memory Nick Nesbitt argues that the aesthetic practices of twentieth-century French Caribbean writers reconstruct a historical awareness that had been lost amid the repressive violence of slavery, the plantation system, and colonial exploitation. Drawing on the work of Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant, Daniel Maximin, Maryse Condé, and Edwidge Danticat, he shows how these writers use the critical force of the aesthetic imagination to transform the parameters of Antillean experience.

The author takes the aesthetic practices of the black Atlantic--Antillean poetry, literature, and theater, but also Haitian vodou and visual arts, American jazz, and West African musical traditions--to constitute the models informing this Caribbean vernacular historiography. At the same time, Nesbitt shows how concepts from Césaire's "negritude" to Glissant's "relation" critically rework European theoretical influences to construct a black Atlantic historical self-consciousness. In so doing, Nesbitt points beyond the regionalism of Antillean exoticism to describe French Caribbean literature as a decisive intervention in the construction of a global modernity.

New World Studies

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nick Nesbitt is Assistant Professor of French in the Department of French and Italian Studies at Miami University, Ohio.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Virginia Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813921511
• ISBN 13: 9780813921518
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible