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... of contemporary identity, the Caribbean subject finds itself thrown center stage, paraded before the world as the ideal postmodern being. A brutal, hellish history of deracination, slavery, colonialism, and (for some) independence has apparently been recuperated and reinterpreted as the ideal context...

.... Ainsi la negritude, en sa source la plus profonde, est une androgynie. Jean-Paul Sartre, "Orphee noir"2 A Creole Garden-of Earthly Delights Tn his provocative attack on the high-mindedness of earlier literary movements Ln the Francophone Caribbean, Patrick Chamoiseau dismisses a "cas- trated negritude...

...-political. My authors were Apollinaire, Rimbaud, Lautreamont, Breton, and Eluard. My only knowledge of francophone Caribbean literature consisted of a few commonplaces and catchphrases concerning Cesaire that I had been exposed to through the filters of Breton and Sartre. But the world-worlds-opened up...

... the search for identity grounding much of Caribbean literature. The death of its main protagonist, Francis Sancher, and his subsequent wake, provide the villagers of Riviere au Sel with an opportunity to reflect on their past and current plights and to ponder their future. Neither Sancher, who sought...

... is spent challenging, questioning, or even mocking essentializing models of Caribbean identity.2 Indeed, one might argue that everyone of her novels, including those ostensibly concerning places outside of the Caribbean, has targeted one of a series of fixed concepts of the Antillean subject. In many cases...

...Martin Munro Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Martin Munro RHYTHMS, HISTORY, AND MEMORY IN EDOUARD GLISSANT'S LE QUATRIEME SIECLE The past, to which we were subjected, which has not yet emerged as history for us, is, however, obsessively present. (Glissant, Caribbean...

... feminine des Antilles." Recherche, Pedagogie et Culture 44 (1979): 89-93. "Au-dela. des langues et des couleurs." La Quinzaine Litteraire 436 (mai 1985): 36. "Notes sur un retour au pays natal." Conjonction 176 (supplement 1987): 7-23. "Cinema, Literature and Freedom." Ex-iles: Essays on Caribbean Cinema...

... a paradigm of genre translation and transmission that might be called "Caribbean Gothic" (countering the Orientalist "Imperial Gothic" readily apparent in British colonial fiction). Ghosts, telepathic communication, the channeling of spirits and voices emerge as important themes in Wuthering Heights...

.... To survive in such a context, to survive not simply as human animals who have a right to minimal social benefits (the health care, unemployment insurance, aid for single mothers, and other benefits that Guadeloupeans enjoy in contrast to many other Caribbean nations), but to survive as human individuals...

... or displeasing at her own leisure, her work is by now unsurpassed in scope as a fiction monument originating in the Francophone Caribbean. In the past fifteen years, her work has taken a distinct turn towards playful irony and exuberant narration. Conde has underscored on several occasions that she has been...

... of these evocations of madness in the context of French Caribbean literature. For centuries, the remote islands of the Antilles figured in the Western imagination as a site of mental and spiritual aberrance, a land of mystery, libertinage, and disorder. It is therefore not surprising that recent theoretical texts...

... principle to inert matter. What I would call Locke's thought is a limb argument, his obsession with considering that consciousness could as easily be in our little finger as in our mind, helps us to test the connection between the set of practices in the Caribbean associated with the sacred, literal...

... in the Caribbeans—because of their history or because of geographical proximity to other cultures and the requirements of living in the increasingly globalized world of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Abdelkebir Khatibi, for example, consistently endorses the notion of a “Maghreb pluriel” whose population...

... is at once new, born of the earthquake, and an echo of the literary past, in particular, of Jacques-Stephen Alexis's classic work, L'Espace d'un cillement, which presents memorably another fallen woman, a prostitute whose exploited body stands as a symbol for Haiti and the broader Caribbean. Les Immortelles...

... anticipated a uniquely Caribbean tradition of exile literature. As Martin Munro has written in his Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature, "Haitian literature has a longstanding, sophisticated tradition of migrant writing," produced by authors driven from their homeland by the threat of violence. The writings...

... of Anglophone writers C.L.R. James and Anna Julia Cooper, one explores the Caribbean kinship between Maryse Conde's acclaimed novel, Crossing the Mangrove, and the great Haitian writer, Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de fa rosee, and one reads a novel by another Haitian writer, Maurice Casseus, against...

... into the Caribbean and explicitly denouncing intra-African violence.4 Sartre had misunderstood the double bind of the colonial subject, as Du Bois had not: an enablement foraged out of massive violation. Cesaire's Lumumba is exactly not Sartre's.5 Lumumba speaks against "tribality" at the 1958 Pan-African Congress...

... and woof of a textile, adding to the weaving of a friendship that is growing between us. The disparate strands of the weaving, from Africa, South America and the Caribbean, from France and Eastern Europe, through the American South, can all be seen in the urban fabric here. Neighborhoods of solidarity...

... in the genesis and persistence of a specifically black Caribbean psychopathology.10 My reading proceeds in two stages. I begin by outlining the ways in which Chauvet revises the Freudian paradigm of the Oedipus complex. Through a critical dialogue with Freud's ego psychology that is indebted to Ronnie...

... whatever linguistic strategies, narrative techniques, they deem appropriate to express their identity. No exclusions, no dictates» Creo/ite without the Creole Language », trans. Kathleen M. Balutansky, Caribbean Creo/ization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language, Literature, and Identity, eds...