The negotiated self : the dynamics of identity in francophone Caribbean narrative /
"Using a multifaceted approach, this study explores questions of identity in novels by Dany Bebel-Gisler, Maryse Conde, and Emile Ollivier. As signs, narrators and characters are connected to each other dialogically and produce multilayered narratives that problematize the concept of a cohesive...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
P. Lang,
c1999
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| Series: | Francophone cultures and literatures ;
vol. 24 Francophone cultures and literatures ; v. 24 |
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| Summary: | "Using a multifaceted approach, this study explores questions of identity in novels by Dany Bebel-Gisler, Maryse Conde, and Emile Ollivier. As signs, narrators and characters are connected to each other dialogically and produce multilayered narratives that problematize the concept of a cohesive and static collective identity. In revealing identity to be a constantly fluctuating semiotic process, the study shows that Caribbean Francophone narrative is creating a new literary space where the dialogic underpinnings of the self are called upon to express the difficulties, the heterogeneity, and the opacity of meaning associated with any definition of a cultural or national identity."--BOOK JACKET |
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| Physical Description: | x, 192 p. ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-183) and index |
| ISBN: | 0820438871 (alk. paper) |