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Author:   Jean Khalfa ,  Albert James Arnold
Publisher:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   152
Weight:   0.422kg
ISBN:  

9781803746913

ISBN 10:   1803746912
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   19 November 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents CHARLES FORSDICK Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Francophonie and Its Discontents PART I Surveying the Field Chapter 1 The Lie of the Land Chapter 2 Dynamics of a Conflicted National Identity PART II Reading Identitarian Discourse Chapter 3 The Folktale as Marker of Caribbean Identity Chapter 4 Folklore, Exoticism and the Colonial Novel Chapter 5 How Mulatto Novelists Became ‘Black’ Chapter 6 A Béké Seeks to Reoccupy the Centre Chapter 7 Créolité: The Margin Writes Back Against the Centre PART III Creoleness vs Creolisation Chapter 8 Martinique – From Glissant’s Poétique de la relation to Traité du Tout-Monde Chapter 9 Guadeloupe – Creolisation au féminin PART IV Reading Aimé Césaire in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 10 The Vicissitudes of ‘Negritude’ Chapter 11 Césaire, Ideology and Identity Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Albert James Arnold taught French and Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia. Research grants and university invitations took him to Paris, Leiden, Potsdam, Brisbane and Cambridge. His books on Aimé Césaire (1981, 2020) are authoritative, as are his editions of Césaire's works in French (2014) and English (2017). He has published extensively on identitarian discourse in the French Caribbean.

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