TY - BOOK ID - 77904372 TI - The imaginary Caribbean and Caribbean imaginary PY - 2003 SN - 978080320339X 080320339X 9780803203396 0803237391 9780803237391 PB - Lincoln University of Nebraska Press DB - UniCat KW - Creoles in literature. KW - Caribbean fiction (French) KW - French fiction KW - Caribbean literature (French) KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77904372 AB - "The Imaginary is everywhere in representations of the Caribbean Islands and their people and has been ever since their "discoverers" dreamt themselves arriving, triumphant, in the Indies. This book poses a provocative question: When the Imaginary occupies the place of the Real, as in Caribbean culture and European projections of that culture, how does the Real position itself? Michele Praeger seeks an answer by bringing the Caribbean discourses of French traditional criticism and American social sciences, particularly history and psychoanalysis, into conversation with the imaginings of the Caribbean - in the form of fiction by Edouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, Raphael Confiant, Maryse Conde, Michele Lacrosil, and Suzanne Cesaire." "Through analysis of historical and psychoanalytic work on the Caribbean, Praeger reveals both the biases of these disciplines, and the possibilities they hold when brought into dialogue with one another and with literature. She shows how Caribbean writers respond to these discourses in their re-creation of the daily experience, history or non-history, and gender differences of their culture. She highlights in particular the aesthetics and ethics of these Caribbean writers."--Jacket. ER -