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Author: Bonnie Thomas
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.420kg
ISBN: 9781496810557
ISBN 10: 1496810554
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 30 April 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
-History remains a common preoccupation for virtually all Caribbean authors, and in this accessible, concise, and theoretically engaged study, Bonnie Thomas offers compelling analyses of important works and explores the complex ways in which time and history shape the content of classic Caribbean fiction.---Martin Munro, Winthrop-King Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University and author of Tropical Apocalypse: Haiti and the Caribbean End Times
Overall, Thomas brings an extremely insightful and productive apparatus to bear on the fascinting works of [Maryse Cond , Gis le Pineau, Patrick Chamoiseau, Edwidge Danticat, and Dany Laferri re]. This work is a welcome contribution both to the growing body of Glissantian analysis and to the study of Antillean (autobiographical) fiction.--Laura McGinnis French Studies Journal
Bonnie Thomas's Connecting Histories examines memory and trauma in Caribbean self-writing. Conversant with the fields of trauma theory and Caribbean thought, Thomas's book makes us read anew prominent contemporary writers Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Cond , Edwidge Danticat, Dany Laferri re, and Gis le Pineau. Built in the mode of the quilt, her crystal-clear monograph will be indispensable to students and scholars of Caribbean literature and memory studies alike. --Val rie Loichot, professor of French and English at Emory University in Atlanta and author of Orphan Narratives: The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse and The Tropics Bite Back: Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature History remains a common preoccupation for virtually all Caribbean authors, and in this accessible, concise, and theoretically engaged study, Bonnie Thomas offers compelling analyses of important works and explores the complex ways in which time and history shape the content of classic Caribbean fiction. --Martin Munro, Winthrop-King Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University and author of Tropical Apocalypse: Haiti and the Caribbean End Times
History remains a common preoccupation for virtually all Caribbean authors, and in this accessible, concise, and theoretically engaged study, Bonnie Thomas offers compelling analyses of important works and explores the complex ways in which time and history shape the content of classic Caribbean fiction. --Martin Munro, Winthrop-King Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University and author of Tropical Apocalypse: Haiti and the Caribbean End Times
Author Information
Bonnie Thomas, Perth, Australia, is a senior lecturer in French studies at the University of Western Australia. She is author of Breadfruit or Chestnut? Gender Construction in the French Caribbean Novel and has contributed to Nowhere Is Perfect: French and Francophone Utopias/Dystopias. Her work has appeared in Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, French Review, Small Axe, and International Journal of Francophone Studies, among others.
