Race, Culture, and Identity : Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory from Négritude to Créolité PDF
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Race; C~rt~~e; aV\d JdeV\tity Caribbean Studies Series Editors Shona Jackson, Texas A&M University and Anton Allahar, University of Western Ontario Editorial Board Edna Acosta-Belen, SUNY-Albany; Holger Henke, CUNY; Brian Meeks, Uni versity of the West Indies; Velma Pollard, University of the West Indies; John Rickford, Stanford University; Sylvia Wynter, Stanford University Lexington Books' Caribbean Studies Series is committed to publishing scholar ship that either rethinks or imagines anew all aspects of Caribbean history, cul ture, politics, literature, and social organization. The Series will be interested in publishing studies and monographs that deal either with the Caribbean as a dis crete geographical region or that treat the Caribbean and its diaspora collec tively. Ever since it was brought into the European orbit, the Caribbean has been defined by overlapping cultures of difference and similarity that are always in contest and conversation. This idea of creolization and syncretism defines the Caribbean and its people, and cannot be ignored in any attempt to understand the region and its diasporas. The Series' editors recognize the great insular and re gional diversity that characterize the Caribbean and its diasporas and are most keen to highlight the multiplicity of theoretical and intellectual approaches needed to capture this most complex region, both historically and in contempo rary times. To this extent they welcome manuscripts written from structuralist, poststructuralist, modernist, postrnodernist and even micro-interactionist per spectives. In all of this one thing must remain clear: the Caribbean cannot be subsumed beneath the banner of anyone school or perspective. Nor can it be studied (a) independently of each state's own cultural and political situation and contemporary relationship to international capital, or (b) without taking into ac count the interrelationships among other Caribbean states. In other words, the Series seeks to promote a cross-disciplinary appreciation of the Caribbean that is just as intellectually robust as the Caribbean itself. Titles in the series "Colon Man a Come ": Mythographies ofP anama Canal Migration by Rhonda D. Frederick Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and the State in Development by Michaeline A. Crichlow Ethnicity, Class, and Nationalism: Caribbean and Extra-Caribbean Dimensions edited by Anton L. Allahar Race, Culture, and Identity: Francophone West African and Caribbean Litera ture and Theory from Negritude to Creolite by Shireen K. Lewis Shireen K. Lewis Race, Cultvu,Ae} J aV\d deV\tiiy Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory From Negritude to Creolite LEXINGTON BOOKS A division of ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Lanham· Boulder· New York· Toronto· Oxford LEXINGTON BOOKS A division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200 Lanham, MD 20706 PO Box 317 Oxford OX29RU, UK Copyright © 2006 by Lexington Books All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1472-8 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN-IO: 0-7391-1472-7 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1473-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-IO: 0-7391-1473-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) Library of Congress Control Number: 2005936249 Printed in the United States of America 8Tf1. 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TThhee CCrreeoolliittee MMoovveemmeenntt:: RReeccoonnffligguurriinngg IIddeennttiittyy iinn tthhee CCaarriibbbbeeaann iinn tthhee LLaattee TTwweennttiieetthh CCeennttuurryy .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... 8899 NNootteess ................................................. 112277 BBiibblliiooggrraapphhyy ........................................... 115533 IInnddeexx ................................................. 116633 AAbboolultt tthhee AAuutthhoorr ......................................... 116677 ;AckJl1owledg meJl1ts T he research for this book was done primarily from 1993 to 1998 when I lived in France, Senegal, and Washington, D.C, and visited Marti nique. Florence Josse greatly facilitated my research at the Bibliotheque Saint Genevieve in Paris and also extended her hospitality during my stay in Paris. Lilyan Kesteloot's hospitality and interest in my work made my stay in Senegal more enjoyable and helped me to rethink some of my ideas. Librarians at the Fon dation Senghor in Senegal, the Bibliotheque Schoelcher in Martinique, the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University, and the Library of Congress, were indispensable. My work on Paulette Nardal was received with great enthusiasm and encouraged by participants at the Congres du Conseil d'Etudes Francophones in Guadeloupe in 1997. Haitian writer, J.]. Dominque, who interviewed me about Nardal for a program on Radio Haiti was especially encouraging. I would like to thank Roland Suvelor, a longtime friend of the Nardal family, for his help in filling in biographical informa tion on Paulette NardaL This book would not have been possible without help and encouragement, at the conception, from Elisabeth Boyi of Stanford University and Linda Orr of Duke University. I thank them both for being fine examples of professors devoted to their students. My ideas on Negritude's relationship with modernism were greatly influ enced by feedback from Fredric Jameson of Duke University. I wish to thank the following people for their wonderful support: Montina Cole, Christiana Lewis, Riche Richardson, Kangbai Konate, Sarah Posner, Claudia Cantarella, Diana Zentay, Geeta Paray-Clarke, George Elliott Clarke, Micaela Mis iego, Katya Gibel Azoulay, Janet Ewald, A. Leigh DeNeef, Stephen H. Weiner, Faye Williams, Cassandra Burton, Tim Boiler, Scott Bryson, Eileen Julien, Irlene Fran<;:ois, Aniko Noel, Edward Hayes, Gail Messier, Kathryn Grant, M.D., Robert White, M.D.,
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