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Language and Literary Form in French Caribbean Writing

Language and Literary Form in French Caribbean Writing

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Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, Book 31

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1800348789
ISBN13: 9781800348783
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jan 5 2021
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book analyses French Caribbean writing from the point of view of its language and literary form - questions which until recently were somewhat neglected in postcolonial studies but are now becoming an important area of research. Britton supplements postcolonial theory with structuralism
and poststructuralism to show how analysis of the textual illuminates the political and ideological positions of the writers. Topics including genre, intertextuality, narrative voice, discursive agency, orality, the 'creolization' of languages and the renewal of realism are discussed in relation to

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