TY - BOOK ID - 80832842 TI - Childhood, autobiography and the francophone Caribbean PY - 2013 VL - 24 SN - 9781846317941 1846317940 9781781380475 1781380473 9781846318412 1846318416 1781389241 PB - Liverpool DB - UniCat KW - 840-94 KW - 840-94 Franse literatuur: dagboek; memoires KW - Franse literatuur: dagboek; memoires KW - Autobiographical fiction, French KW - History and criticism. KW - Autobiographical fiction, Caribbean (French) KW - Caribbean literature (French) KW - Identity (Psychology) in literature. KW - Caribbean autobiographical fiction (French) KW - Caribbean fiction (French) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80832842 AB - This book examines a major modern turn in Francophone Caribbean literature towards the récit d'enfance, or childhood memoir, and asks why this occurred post-1990, connecting texts to recent changes in public policy and education policy concerning the commemoration of slavery and colonialism both in France and at a global level (for example, the UNESCO project 'La Route de l'esclave', the 'loi Taubira' and the 'Comité pour la mémoire de l'esclavage'). Combining approaches from Postcolonial Theory, Psychoanalysis, Trauma Theory and Gender Studies, and positing recognition as a central concept of postcolonial literature, it draws attention to a neglected body of récits d'enfance by contemporary bestselling, prize-winning Francophone Caribbean authors Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, Daniel Maximin, Raphaël Confiant and Dany Laferrière, while also offering new readings of texts by Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant, Joseph Zobel, Françoise Ega, Michèle Lacrosil, Maurice Virassamy and Mayotte Capécia. The study proposes an innovative methodological paradigm with which to read postcolonial childhoods in a comparative framework from areas as diverse as the Caribbean, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and particularly the Haitian diaspora in North America. ER -