Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: February 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780739116579
Subjects: European - French; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism
Description: "Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures analyzes novels and films that demonstrate how marriage affects Francophone African and Caribbean women in their respective societies. It argues that marriage serves as a catalyst for intense identity formation because it functions as a narrative intersection for a number of overlapping themes on gender and the body, class and economics, religion, interracial and intercultural identity, and nation building."--book jacket.