Soundings in French Caribbean Writing since 1950: The Shock of Space and Time

Abstract

Introduction 1. Theoretical Generations: Writing Identities 2. Novel Time: Reconstructing the Past? 3. The Place of Memory 4. The Time-Space of Writing: Voicing Continuities, Texturing Traditions 5. The Plantation Revisited: a Chronotope Revised 6. The Reproduction of Space? Urban Time 7. French Connection, Metropolitan Mirror 8. A critical space-time: Africa, between authenticity and ambivalence 9. Imagining the Local: Circulating in the New World Conclusion Bibliography Index