140 research outputs found
Race, classe, communauté, ou, comment peut-on (ne pas) être béké ?
No full textMaeve McCusker, professeure à la Queen's University de Belfast, analyse la façon dont les Békés ont imaginé la communauté martiniquaise de la première moitié du XIXe siècle. À travers l'idée de communauté, elle interroge les relations entre les différentes communautés ethniques et les Békés
Mastering the word. Appropriations of the conte creole in Antillean theory
No full textA majority of the chapters in this book were originally presented as papers at a conference held at Queen's University Belfast in September 2006. The volume explores the oral-written dynamic in the conte francais/francophone, focusing on key aspects of the relationship between oral and written forms of the conte. The chapters fall into four broad thematic areas (the oral-written dynamic in early modern France; literary appropriations and transformations; postcolonial contexts; storytelling in contemporary France: linguistic strategies). Within these broad areas, some chapters deal with sources and influences (such as that of written on oral and vice versa), others with the nature of the discourse resulting from an oral-written dynamic (discourse structure, linguistic features etc.), some with the oral-written interface as it affects the definition of genre, others with the role of the 'oral' within the literary or written text (use of storytelling scenarios, the problematics inherent in transcribing/adapting the spoken word etc.). This chronological and methodological range allows us to situate the emergence of the form in socio-cultural and historical terms, and to open up debate around the role of the conte in particular geographical and political contexts: regional, national, European and postcolonial. This book contains contributions in both English and French
Translating the Creole Voice: From the oral to the literary tradition in Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco
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Patrick Chamoiseau Recovering Memory
No full textThis timely new book skillfully examines the work of the award-winning writer Patrick Chamoiseau. Considered by many as one of the most innovative writers to hit the French literary scene in over 40 years, Chamoiseau made his name with his book Texaco (published in 1992 and winner of the highest literary prize in France, the Prix Goncourt). His books have gone on to sell millions and his work has been translated by a number of academic presses. McCusker sets the author in context, providing a valuable contribution to 'memory studies' by looking at literary representation of memory in Martinique, a society founded on slavery but now politically assimilated to the metropolitan centre, France.Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: Beginnings: The Enigma of Origin -- 2: 'Une tracée de survie': Autobiographical Memory -- 3: Memory Re-collected: Witnesses and Words -- 4: Memory Materialized: Traces of the Past -- 5: Flesh Made Word: Traumatic Memory in Biblique des derniers gestes -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexThis timely new book skillfully examines the work of the award-winning writer Patrick Chamoiseau. Considered by many as one of the most innovative writers to hit the French literary scene in over 40 years, Chamoiseau made his name with his book Texaco (published in 1992 and winner of the highest literary prize in France, the Prix Goncourt). His books have gone on to sell millions and his work has been translated by a number of academic presses. McCusker sets the author in context, providing a valuable contribution to 'memory studies' by looking at literary representation of memory in Martinique, a society founded on slavery but now politically assimilated to the metropolitan centre, France.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Maeve Brennan, Celebrity, and Harper's Bazaar in the 1940s
Get PDFThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the link in this record.Just four years after the end of the Second World War, in his 1949 essay “Here is New York”, E. B. White begins his celebration of the city with the promise that “On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy”. In her biography of Maeve Brennan, Homesick at the New Yorker, Angela Bourke takes her cue from White in describing Brennan as “an expert in both loneliness and privacy”. There is a marked tension between privacy and public visibility and obscurity and celebrity in Maeve Brennan’s writing, an anxiety that speaks in significant ways to the concerns of the mid-century Irish woman writer and to the position of women during the years of the American war effort. While Brennan is perhaps best known for her association with the New Yorker magazine through the 1950s and 60s and beyond, her concern with celebrity and public performances of different kinds was also shaped via the formative influence of another New York magazine in the 1940s: Harper’s Bazaar. [...
Patrick Chamoiseau
No full textNow available in paperback, this acclaimed book skilfully examines the work of the award-winning writer Patrick Chamoiseau. Considered by many as one of the most innovative writers to hit the French literary scene in over 40 years, Chamoiseau made his name with his book Texaco (published in 1992 and winner of the highest literary prize in France, the Prix Goncourt). His books have gone on to sell millions and his work has been translated by a number of academic presses. McCusker sets the author in context, providing a valuable contribution to memory studies by looking at literary representation of memory in Martinique, a society founded on slavery but now politically assimilated to the metropolitan centre, France.</jats:p
Caribbean generations: Special Issue co-edited by Cunningham, Kennedy, McCusker and Munro
No full textFictions of Whiteness. Imagining the Planter Caste in the French Caribbean Novel
No full textMcCusker’s Fictions of Whiteness is the first full-length study of the representation of the plantation master or mistress in Antillean fiction and culture. It breaks new theoretical ground in engaging with Critical Whiteness Studies, almost entirely ignored in French-language criticism. Critical Whiteness Studies interrogates the “unexamined norm” of whiteness, a default against which other “races” are positioned. But White Creoles constitute a tiny (1%), highly privileged, minority, a fact that complicates the application of models generated in contexts of white dominance. Moreover, the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique are départements d’outre-mer, and therefore problematically located in a “color-blind” Republic that prides itself on not recognizing racial difference. In a study that ranges from the earliest fiction to the present day, embracing canonical authors (Glissant; Chamoiseau; Condé; Confiant) and less familiar ones (Maynard; Cabort-Masson; Jaham), McCusker tests the relevance and limitations of this theoretical model, and deploys a range of other approaches (narratology; psychoanalysis; postcolonial theory). The ultimate aim is to better understand the invention, construction and sanctification of whiteness in the 'vieilles colonies', laboratories in which the colonial mission took shape, and whose history continues to haunt, in often spectacular ways, metropolitan France today. <br/
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