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972542
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b726912
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Murdoch, H. Adlai.
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| Title & Author
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Creole identity in the French Caribbean novel /\ H. Adlai Murdoch.
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| Publication Statement
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Gainesville :: University Press of Florida,, ©2001.
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1 online resource (xi, 290 pages)
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| ISBN
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0813031257
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: 9780813031255
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction. Conceptualizing creoleness : French Caribbean "postcolonial" discourse. -- La Lézarde : Alienation and the poetics of Antillanité. -- En attendant le bonheur : Creole conjunctions and cultural survival. -- LI̓sole Soleil/Soufrières : textual creolization and cultural identity. -- LA̓utre qui danse : the modalities and multiplicities of Métissage. -- Solibo magnifique : carnival, opposition, and the narration of the Caribbean maroon. -- Conclusion. Creolizing the colonial encounter.
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| Abstract
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''Murdoch exploits the postmodern theoretical vocabulary to provide perceptive readings of a selection of French Caribbean novels within the framework of antillanité and créolité.''-- E. Anthony Hurley, State University of New York, Stony BrookAdlai Murdoch offers a detailed rereading of five major contemporary French Caribbean writers--Glissant, Condé, Maximin, Dracius-Pinalie, and Chamoiseau.
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Caribbean fiction (French)-- History and criticism.
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Creoles in literature.
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Créoles dans la littérature.
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Roman antillais (français)-- Histoire et critique.
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Caribbean fiction (French)
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Creoles in literature.
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French Literature.
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Languages Literatures.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Caribbean Latin American.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- French.
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Romance Literatures.
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Frans.
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Romans.
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| Dewey Classification
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843.009/9729
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PQ3944.M87 2001eb
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