Race, Culture, and Identity : Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory from Négritude to Créolité.

Caribbean Studies; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Chapitre 1 -- Légitime Défense: A Precursor to Modern Black Francophone Literature; The Manifesto: The Allegiance to Marxism-Leninism and Surrealism; The Essays: The Primacy of Politics over Culture; Politics: The Struggle between Social Classes; Culture: Bourgeois Writers of Color and their Alienation from Black Identity; Other Writers as Models for Bourgeois Writers of Color; The Failure to Move from Theory to Practice; Chapter 2 -- What Was Négritude?

Modernism and Négritude Reject Enlightenment PhilosophyModernist Themes in Early Négritude Poetry; Modernism Influences Négritude's Experimentation with Language; The Founding of Presence Africaine; Sartre and "Orphée Noir"; Senghor's Construction of Black Identity and Its Political Implications; Chapter 3 -- Gendering Négritude: Paulette Nardal's Contribution to the Birth of Modern Francophone Literature; Toward A Biography of Paulette Nardal: From Paris to Fort-de-France; Chapter 4 -- Rerooting the Uprooted: Edouard Glissant's Antillanité and Beyond; The Epistemological Break with Négritude.

Toward an Elaboration of AntillanitéThe Quarrel with "History": The Privileging of Histories or Stories; Martinican Creole and the Making of a Poetics; Creolization, Identité-rhizome, and the Contemporary Caribbean; Chapter 5 -- The Créolité Movement: Reconfiguring Identity in the Caribbean in the Late Twentieth Century; Contextualizing Eloge de la Créolité; Constructing Identity against Négritude While Borrowing from Antillanité; The Configuration of Creole Identity; Defining Créolité Aesthetics or the Valorization of the Creole Imaginary.

The Elaboration of Créolité Aesthetics and the Influence of GlissantThe Origin and Evolution of Creole Language; The Practice of Créolité Aesthetics: Confiant's and Chamoiseau's Depiction of Caribbean Reality; Practicing Creolité Aesthetics: The Creation of a New Literary Language; Where Is the Politics in Créolité?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.

In this groundbreaking book, Shireen Lewis gives a comprehensive analysis of the literary and theoretical discourse on race, culture, and identity by Francophone and Caribbean writers beginning in the early part of the twentieth century and continuing into the dawn of the new millennium.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

English.

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