Connecting histories : Francophone Caribbean writers interrogating their past / Bonnie Thomas.

• Introduction : history, memory, and trauma in the Francophone Caribbean -- Maryse Condé : filling in the gaps of "herstory" -- Gisèle Pineau : writing as therapy -- Patrick Chamoiseau : memory, relation, and the Creolized imaginary -- Edwidge Danticat : connecting the political and personal -- Dany Laferrière : "I write as I live" -- Conclusion.

• "A comprehensive introduction to five Caribbean writers and their confrontation with trauma"-- 

Ämnesord

Västindisk litteratur  (sao)

Identitet (psykologi) i litteraturen  (sao)

Historia i litteraturen  (sao)

Minnet i litteraturen  (sao)

Psykiska trauman i litteraturen  (sao)

Identity (Psychology) in literature.  (LCSH)

Psychic trauma in literature.  (LCSH)

Memory in literature.  (LCSH)

History in literature.  (LCSH)

Caribbean literature (French)  -- 20th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Caribbean literature (French)  -- 21st century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Caribbean literature (English)  -- 20th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Caribbean literature (English)  -- 21st century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Authors, Caribbean  -- 20th century -- Biography. (LCSH)

Authors, Caribbean  -- 21st century -- Biography. (LCSH)

History in literature  (LCSH)

Memory in literature  (LCSH)

Psychic trauma in literature  (LCSH)

West Indian literature  (LCSH)

Genre

Biographies.  (fast)

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

Klassifikation

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