Rewriting the Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers

by Anne François

Rewriting the Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers examines how post-colonial women writers Maryse Cond , Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner Vieyra emerged with a new vision of the notion of origins and identity and in the process revised the myth of the return to Africa previously constructed by N gritude writers in the 1930s. Their works reveal that the rediscovery of Caribbean history and culture leads to a new awareness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739148265
• ISBN13: 9780739148266
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.3"