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Connecting Histories
Bonnie Thomas
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University Press of Mississippi 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
Collective and personal past, Gisèle Pineau, reconciliation, Writing space, trauma theory, Autobiographical narratives, Exile, literary collage, French colonialism, Herstory, history and memory, Literature, Patrick Chamoiseau, Literary forebears, Female lineage, Martinique, Postcolonial, Edouard Glissant, connection, North America, personal and political, Haiti, Guadeloupe, Connecting histories, Trauma, Mental illness, Edwidge Danticat, Personal and political, Maryse Condé, Duvalier, slavery, History and histories, Francophone Caribbean writers, Connection with nature, Creole, Self-writing, Claiming a culture, Dany Laferrière, Caribbean Studies, Self-knowledge, Rhizomatic network, French Caribbean literature, History and memory, Haitian earthquake, Relation Colonial