Race, culture, and identity : Francophone West African and Caribbean literature and theory from négritude to créolité /
Lewis, Shireen K.,1959-
Lanham ; Oxford : Lexington Books,
c2006.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Duke University, 1998) presented under the title: From négritude to créolité.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-161) and index.
Légitime Défense: a precursor to modern black Francophone literature -- What was Négritude? -- Gendering Négritude: Paulette Nardal's contribution to the birth of modern Francophone literature -- Rerooting the uprooted: Edouard Glissant's Antillanité and beyond -- The Créolité Movement: reconfiguring identity in the Caribbean in the late twentieth century.
Caribbean literature (French)
African literature (French)
Negritude (Literary movement)
Blacks in literature.