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- Title
Essai sur les essais dans la littérature des Antilles au tournant du xx<sup>e</sup> siècle.
- Authors
Fonkoua, Romuald-Blaise
- Abstract
This is an article on ‘essays’ in French Caribbean literature at the end of the last century. The ‘essay’ is one of the ambiguous genres of French Caribbean literature. It is frequently practised in the Caribbean in journals and newspapers, autobiographies and novels, short stories and theatre. Whether it appears collectively or individually, is written by one or various authors, the ‘essay’ offers a loud and far-reaching voice and serves as Caliban's response to the questions of frustration, absence, and silence which are the consequences of slavery in the West Indies. The main concern of the ‘essay’ at the end of the twentieth century is to create and organize a new ‘Creole reason’ in politics, history, and literature.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; CARIBBEAN literature (French); CARIBBEAN literature (French Creole); CREOLE literature; MULTIRACIAL people; FRENCH-speaking Caribbean
- Publication
International Journal of Francophone Studies, 2006, Vol 9, Issue 1, p41
- ISSN
1368-2679
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/ijfs.9.1.41/1