The Black renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean literatures
By: K. Martial Frindéthié.
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780786436637
Subjects: African literature (French) -- Black authors -- History and criticism; Caribbean literature (French) -- Black authors -- History and criticism; Blacks in literature; Griots in literature; Negritude (Literary movement); Oral tradition -- Africa
Description: "This work explores the limits and prospects of Afro-Caribbean Francophone writers in reshaping or producing action-oriented literature. It shows how Francophone literatures have followed a hegemonic discourse that leaves little room for thinking outside of traditional cultural and ideological conventions."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: post-negritude and literary theory; title: The quest for originality; title: Paradigm of the griot; title: Negritude of incompossibility and negritude of compossibility; title: The griot, his word, his body; title: Fanon's will to unity; title: Reiterating griotism; title: Black women writers' dilemma with theory; title: New nomadologies; title: The African critic as a griotist.