Tag: Guadeloupe

  • Shaping a Symbol: Schwarz-Bart’s Visions and Revisions of His Guadeloupian Heroine in La mulâtresse Solitude Sargasso: Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture Volume II (2002) pages 31-43 Aaron C. Eastley, Associate Professor of English Brigham Young University Much has been made by critics of André Schwarz-Bart’s singular portrayal of his historical heroine in La…

  • Adlai Murdoch offers a detailed rereading of five major contemporary French Caribbean writers–Glissant, Condé, Maximin, Dracius-Pinalie, and Chamoiseau. Emphasizing the role of narrative in fashioning the cultural and political doubleness of Caribbean Creole identity, Murdoch shows how these authors actively rewrite their own colonially driven history.