Patrick Chamoiseau[electronic resour...
Chamoiseau, Patrick

 

  • Patrick Chamoiseau[electronic resource] :a critical introduction/
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 843
    Title/Author: Patrick Chamoiseau : a critical introduction// Wendy Knepper.
    Author: Knepper, Wendy.
    Published: Jackson : : University Press of Mississippi,, 2012.
    Description: 1 online resource (xv, 274 p.).
    Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global).
    Subject: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
    Subject: LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American.
    Subject: Creole dialects - Caribbean Area.
    Subject: Creole dialects in literature.
    ISBN: 9781617031557 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 1617031550 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9781617031540 (hbk.)
    ISBN: 1617031542 (hbk.)
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    [NT 15000229]: "Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. Chamoiseau's work sheds light on thedynamic processes of creolization that have shaped Caribbean history and culture. He isthe recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the prestigious Prix Goncourt for the epic novel Texaco. The author's diverse body of work, which includes plays, novels, fictionalized memoirs, treatises, andother genres of writing, offers a compelling vision of the postcolonial world from a francophone Caribbean perspective.An important addition to Caribbean literary studies, Patrick Chamoiseau is an indispensable work for scholars interested in francophone, Caribbean, and world literatures as well as cultural studies. Scholars and students with interestsin creolization, neocolonialism, and globalization will find this workparticularly valuable.Patrick Chamoiseau brings the writer's major works of fiction into dialogue with lesser-known texts, including unpublished theatrical works, screenplays, visual texts, and treatises. This holistic, comprehensive, and largely chronological study of Chamoiseau's oeuvre includes analyses of various authorial strategies, especially the use of narrative masques, cross-cultural storytelling techniques, andcreolizing poetics"--
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