The Negotiated Self

The Dynamics of Identity in Francophone Caribbean Narrative

Anne Malena (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

1999
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-3887-0 (ISBN)

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Using a multifaceted approach, this study explores questions of identity in novels by Dany Bébel-Gisler, Maryse Condé, 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.

The Author: Anne Malena is Assistant Professor of French and Translation at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and a translator. She received her Ph.D. in French Literature from Cornell University where she was the recipient of a fellowship from the Olin Family Foundation. In addition to publishing in various professional journals on Caribbean writers and translation, she has translated into French a first novel by Kristjana Gunnars, The Prowler, and is currently at work on a second one.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.1999
Reihe/Serie	Francophone Cultures and Literatures ; 24
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	410 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
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ISBN-10	0-8204-3887-1 / 0820438871
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-3887-0 / 9780820438870
Zustand	Neuware