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L’africanité des cultures caribéennes se résume-t-elle à de lointaines survivances plus ou moins folkloriques, ou n’en constituet- elle pas plutôt le fondement ? Telle est la question que s’attache à résoudre le présent ouvrage.La littérature, miroir des peuples, peinture des cultures et expression artistique, permet de percevoir la continuité culturelle et littéraire, entre le continent africain et sa diaspora caribéenne. La confrontation de romans caribéens francophones et anglophones d’une part, africains de l’Afrique subsaharienne et de l’Afrique centrale d’autre part, révèle des traits culturels communs et des topoï littéraires d’une zone à l’autre : traumatismes coloniaux, protection et adaptation de l’héritage ancestral, valeurs spirituelles communes, problématiques linguistiques, peinture des luttes de résistance aux premiers rangs desquelles se retrouve l’écrivain lui-même

Caribbean literature --- National characteristics, African, in literature. --- History and criticism.

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National characteristics, African, in literature --- Negritude (Literary movement) --- Caractéristiques nationales africaines dans la littérature --- Négritude --- Congresses --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Senghor, Léopold Sédar, --- Criticism and interpretation

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Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada is the first book to examine how Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English Canada.Focusing on Laurence's published works as well as her unpublished letters not yet discussed by critics, the book articulates how Laurence and her characters are poised between African colonies of occupation during decolonization and the settler-colony of English Canada during the implementation of Canadian multiculturalism. Laurence's Canadian characters are often divided subjects who are not quite members of their ancestral "imperial" cultures, yet also not truly "native" to their nation. Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada shows how Laurence and her characters negotiate complex tensions between "self" and "nation," and argues that Laurence's African and Canadian writing demonstrates a divided Canadian subject who holds significant implications for both the individual and the country of Canada.Bringing together Laurence's writing about Africa and Canada, Davis offers a unique contribution to the study of Canadian literature. The book is an original interpretation of Laurence's work and reveals how she displaces the simple notion that Canada is a sum total of different cultures and conceives Canada as a mosaic that is in flux and constituted through continually changing social relations.

Decolonization in literature. --- National characteristics, African, in literature. --- Laurence, Margaret --- Laurence, Jean Margaret --- Laurence, Margaret, --- Wemys, Jean Margaret --- Wemyss, Jean Margaret --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Africa --- Canada --- In literature. --- Canada as postcolonial. --- Canadian literature. --- Canadian nationalism. --- Margaret Laurence's African writing. --- Margaret Laurence's Canadian writing. --- Margaret Laurence. --- Western Canadian literature. --- decolonization in Canada. --- decolonization. --- divided subject in Canadian writing. --- prairie literature. --- settler-colony history in Canada.