The Caribbean writer as warrior of the imaginary : L'écrivain caribéen, guerrier de l'imaginaire /

The Caribbean writer as warrior of the imaginary : L'écrivain caribéen, guerrier de l'imaginaire / / edited by Kathleen Gyssels and Bénédicte Ledent.

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This bilingual collection illustrates the concept of the ‘Warrior of the Imaginary’, as defined by Patrick Chamoiseau, in a multi-faceted corpus of texts. Francophone contributions explore the role of the Caribbean writer in works by Chamoiseau, Édouard Glissant, Daniel Maximin, and Joseph Zobel. Es...

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Superior document:Cross/cultures, 101
TeilnehmendeR:
Gyssels, Kathleen, 1963-
Ledent, Bénédicte.
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Cross/cultures ; 101.
Physical Description:1 online resource (506 p.)
Notes:17 English, 13 French contributions.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Dissidences / Daniel Maximin
  • Dimanche Gras / Robert Antoni
  • The Mystery of Timelessness / Wilson Harris
  • Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses / Caryl Phillips
  • The émerveille: Initiating the Warrior of the Imaginary / Wendy Knepper
  • Figures romanesques de la quête identitaire et narrative de Patrick Chamoiseau / Janeth Casas
  • Scénographie postcoloniale et surconscience traductive dans Solibo Magnifique de Patrick Chamoiseau / Liesbeth de Bleeker
  • Les Guerriers généreux de Patrick Chamoiseau / Molly Lynch
  • Résistance et figure de l’agon dans Biblique des derniers gestes / Emmanuelle Tremblay
  • La Longue Veille des caciques: La rémanence du guerrier caraïbe / Odile Gannier
  • Is the Caribbean Becoming a Crispy Chicken? / Michiel van Kempen
  • Wilson Harris’s Multi-Faceted and Dynamic Perception of the Imaginary / Hena Maes–Jelinek
  • A Caribbean and Universal Self: Wilson Harris as “Warrior of the Imaginary” / Patricia Murray
  • L’Insurrection glissantienne: L’Imaginaire en action / Catherine Delpech
  • “Un monde fantastique ayant lui-même dévié”: Le discours insulaire de Deleuze à l’épreuve de Glissant / Christa Stevens
  • A Caribbean Contribution To a Global Ethic: Relation and Singular Pluralities / Abdennebi Ben Beya
  • Prévisions et divagations batoutesques face aux dérélictions du Tout-monde: Daniel Maximin et Édouard Glissant comme Guerriers des (dés)astres antillais / Kathleen Gyssels
  • Les Voix de l’invention poétique chez Daniel Maximin: (Re)création par les blue notes / Cyrille François
  • “Neither ‘written’ nor ‘spoken’”: The Ambiguities of Voice in the Fiction of Caryl Phillips / Kathie Birat
  • Caribbean Autobiographies as Weapons in Identity Construction: Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John / ManuelA Coppola
  • Caribbean Warriors in Canada: Dionne Brand as a Representative / Doris Hambuch
  • “Towards what?”: Walcott and the Dynamics of Change / Rhona Hammond
  • La République dominicaine et les Dominicains dans la fiction haïtienne / Léon–François Hoffmann
  • Three Ex/centric Views of Trujillo’s Dominican Republic: Alvarez, Danticat, Vargas Llosa / Pilar Cuder–Domínguez
  • The Threshold of the Visible: Notes on the Imaginary in Sol de medianoche and Sirena Selena vestida de pena / Kristian van Haesendonck
  • De la page à l’écran: La Rue Cases-Nègres ou l’écolier guerrier / Gaëlle Cooreman
  • “You ti’ink hero can dead – til de las’ reel?”: Perry Henzell’s The Harder They Come and Sergio Corbucci’s Django / Maria Cristina Fumagalli
  • “Fighting Injustice and Subordination”: Mutabaruka’s Return to the Motherland / MUTABARUKA and Werner Zips
  • New Afro-Brazilian Music: The Brazilian Songwriter as ‘Warrior of the Imaginary’ / Christiane Pantke
  • Afterword: Waging the War from the Outside: The Writers of the West Indian Diaspora and their Role in the Future of the Caribbean / Bénédicte Ledent
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index of Names and Titles.

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