French Language & Literature

"This book provides an introduction to the literatures that have emerged in the French-speaking countries and regions of the world in recent decades, illustrating their astonishing breadth and diversity, and exploring their constant state of tension with the literature of France."

"... draws together entries on all aspects of literature in these regions, including authors, critics, major works,magazines, genres and movements, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 1200 alphabetically arranged entries.. writing in all of the Spanish American countries and Brazil, as well as the Dutch,French and English Caribbean."

What is a Caribbean writer? -- Instructions on how to become a 'Caribbean' writer -- Intimate enemies : a writer's reflection on a translation -- Dangerous liaison -- Searching for our truths -- The voyager in, the voyager out -- Beyond languages and colours -- Césaire's negritude, Senghor's negritude -- Why negritude? Negritude or revolution? -- The difficult relationship with Africa : an interview with Maryse Condé -- Living on my island, Guadeloupe -- On the other side, another country : Africa as seen by African American writers -- Globalization and diaspora -- Literature and globalization -- A servant to two masters : Césaire and Fanon -- Kréyol factory -- Lands of the Atlantic -- Sketching a literature from the French Antilles : from negritude to créolité.