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The approach of rethinking authenticity in relation to the built environment is an innovative one, and the book puts to good use human geography approaches to place as actively constructed in and through human relationships. Some of the close reading of texts in relation to buildings and structure is enlightening, and there is an interesting attempt to understand texts in terms of a wider architecture of both society and intertextuality. The book comes together into an absorbing set of arguments. The close reading of intertextualities in the range of texts was fascinating, and it was very interesting to have this discussion placed in the specific context of Haiti for example, and of the very material dynamics of the relationships between architecture and authenticity in recent events: this gave a pleasingly concrete push to the discussions of socio-political structures, and grounded the succeeding discussion in a genuinely innovative way. I found the book overall a very enjoyable read. Patricia Noxolo, Caribbean Studies In Architextual Authenticity, Jason Herbeck grapples with two keywords central to understandings of Caribbean literature in French, namely `identity' and `authenticity'. Focused on a close reading of five core texts from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti, the study explores the ways in which - in both past and present - issues of Antillean identity have been understood and, most importantly, constructed in the textures of literary creation. Herbeck proposes architextual and architectural readings of the works he has selected, and foregrounds not only the construction of spatiality in these but also their recurrent focus on the generative act of writing. LUP's `Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures' series already contains some of the most searching criticism on Caribbean writing in French published in recent years. I am excited that Architextual Authenticity constitutes a genuinely original and significant addition to this important list.Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French, University of Liverpool

In Architextual Authenticity, Jason Herbeck grapples with two keywords central to understandings of Caribbean literature in French, namely `identity' and `authenticity'. Focused on a close reading of five core texts from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti, the study explores the ways in which - in both past and present - issues of Antillean identity have been understood and, most importantly, constructed in the textures of literary creation. Herbeck proposes architextual and architectural readings of the works he has selected, and foregrounds not only the construction of spatiality in these but also their recurrent focus on the generative act of writing. LUP's `Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures' series already contains some of the most searching criticism on Caribbean writing in French published in recent years. I am excited that Architextual Authenticity constitutes a genuinely original and significant addition to this important list.Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French, University of Liverpool

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Jason Herbeck is Professor of French at Boise State University (Idaho). His research focuses primarily on evolving narrative forms in twentieth and twenty-first-century French and French-Caribbean literatures, and how these forms relate to expressions and constructions of identity. In addition to many articles and book chapters devoted to the literatures and histories of Haiti, Martinique and Guadeloupe, he has also published widely on Albert Camus and is, since 2009, President of the North American Section of the Société des Études Camusiennes.

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