Postcolonial violence, culture and identity in Francophone Africa and the Antilles
By: Lorna Milne (ed.).
Contributors: Milne, Lorna.
Series: Cultural identity studies -- v. 7
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9783039103300
Subjects: African literature (French) -- History and criticism.; West Indian literature (French) -- History and criticism.; Abused women in literature.; Violence in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Ceci n'est past un conte, mais une histoire de chair et de sang" : representing the colonial massacre in Francophone literature and culture / Charles Forsdick; title: Sony Labou Tansi's "violence engageante" / Roger Ravet; title: Lying to tell the truth : fiction and the Rwandan genocide in Véronique Tadjo's L'ombre d'Imana / Aedín Ní Loingsigh; title: Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali : writing the Rwandan genocide / Jeanette den Toonder; title: Maghrebi women's writing : violence, silence and speaking out / Anne Marie Miraglia; title: The violence of photography? : "Le besoin d'histoire" in Leïla Sebbar's "La photo d'identité" / Andy Stafford; title: Carnal knowledge : trauma, memory and the body in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes / Maeve McCusker; title: Sex, violence and cultural identity in the work of Gisèle Pineau / Lorna Milne.