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Connecting Histories

Bonnie Thomas
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Autobiographical narratives
Caribbean Studies
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Claiming a culture
Collective and personal past
Connecting histories
connection
Connection with nature
Creole
Dany Laferriere
Duvalier
Edouard Glissant
Edwidge Danticat
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Exile
Female lineage
Francophone Caribbean writers
French Caribbean literature
French colonialism
Gisele Pineau
Guadeloupe
Haiti
Haitian earthquake
Herstory
History and histories
History and memory
literary collage
Literary forebears
Literature
Martinique
Maryse Conde
Mental illness
North America
Patrick Chamoiseau
Personal and political
Postcolonial
reconciliation
Relation Colonial
Rhizomatic network
Self-knowledge
Self-writing
slavery
Trauma
trauma theory
Writing space

Product details

  • ISBN 9781496825674
  • Weight: 265g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Oct 2019
  • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description
The Francophone Caribbean boasts a trove of literary gems. Distinguished by innovative, elegant writing and thought-provoking questions of history and identity, this exciting body of work demands scholarly attention. Its authors treat the traumatic legacies of shared and personal histories pervading Caribbean experience in striking ways, delineating a path towards reconciliation and healing. The creation of diverse personal narratives—encompassing autobiography, autofiction (heavily autobiographical fiction), travel writing, and reflective essay—remains characteristic of many Caribbean writers and offers poignant Illustrations of the complex interchange between shared and personal pasts and how they affect individual lives.

Through their historically informed autobiography, the authors in this study—Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, Patrick Chamoiseau, Edwidge Danticat, and Dany Laferrière—offer compelling insights into confronting, coming to terms with, and reconciling their past. The employment of personal narratives as the vehicle to carry out this investigation points to a tension evident in these writers’ reflections, which constantly move between the collective and the personal. As an inescapably complex network, their past extends beyond the notion of a single, private life.

These contemporary authors from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti intertwine their personal memories with reflections on the histories of their homelands and on the European and North American countries they adopt through choice or necessity. They reveal a multitude of deep connections that illuminate distinct Francophone Caribbean experiences.
About Bonnie Thomas
Bonnie Thomas is associate professor in French studies at the University of Western Australia. She is author of Breadfruit or Chestnut? Gender Construction in the French Caribbean Novel and contributed to the volume Nowhere Is Perfect: French and Francophone Utopias/Dystopias. Her work has appeared in such journals as Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, French Review, Small Axe, and International Journal of Francophone Studies.

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