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National Caribbean literature

Andrea Levy’s The Long Song: Colonial Jamaica, West Indies

Title:The Long Song, 2011,http://www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?sku=0312571143Author:Andrea Levy*Fascinating note:Andrea Levy is a...
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Representing Negritude in Surrealist Imagery and Text: The Césaires and Wifredo Lam

In her 1942 essay from the Martinican Surrealist journal, Tropiques, poet Suzanne Césaire describes the Caribbean as follows : "Il y a...
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Maternal figures and a sense of "home" in Condé's La Désirade and Pineau's L'Exil selon Julia

When I first read Gisèle Pineau's autobiographical novel, L’Exil selon Julia (Paris: Editions stock, 1996), Ihad just finishedMaryse...
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Maryse Conde's Hérémakhonon

The novel’s protagonist, Veronica Mercier, is a highly-educated Caribbean woman working as a teacher in Paris. Emotionally disturbed and...
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Marie Chauvet's Amour, Colère et Folie (Love, Anger, Madness)

In summer 2009, Random House published the English version of Haitian author Marie Chauvet’s 1968 masterpiece, Amour, Colère et Folie....
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Pain and healing in Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et vent sur Telumée Miracle

Firmly inscribed in a matrilineal (knowledge passed down through generations of women) context, Pluie et vent deals with the pain, struggle, and...
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Narrative techniques in Françoise Ega's Lettres à une noire

Françoise Ega’s Lettres à une noire, written in 1978, reads like a realist, epistolary novel (in the style of Mariama Bâ...
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Aime Cesaire's Discours sur le colonialisme (Discourse on Colonialism)

When I was in Paris during the summer of 2006, one of the events associated with the Bastille Day festivities was a theatrical rendition of C...
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Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire, and Léon Damas- The Fathers of Négritude

Négritude is a literary, ideological, and political movement developed in the 1930s by a group of young Caribbean and African intellectuals...
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Healing through literature: Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying

Healing through literature:A Review of Edwidge Danticat’s cathartic family memoir, Brother, I’m Dying.New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007...
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