| Frankétienne and Rewriting: A Work in Progress Contributor(s): Douglas, Rachel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0739125656 ISBN-13: 9780739125656 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $118.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2009 Annotation: FrankZtienne and Rewriting offers an overview the defining aesthetic and thematic components of FrankZtienne's major works, particularly on the relation between his central aesthetic of the Spiral and the practice of rewriting that is prevalent in Caribbean literature. Situating this practice within the framework of postcolonial studies, Douglas argues that literary characteristics in FrankZtienne connect with changing political, social, economic, and cultural circumstances in Haiti as he rewrites. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 843.914 |
| LCCN: 2008054750 |
| Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.98 lbs) 206 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Rewriting" in the context of critical work on Caribbean literature has tended to be used to discuss revisionism from a variety of postcolonial perspectives, such as "rewriting history" or "rewriting canonical texts." By shifting the focus to how Caribbean writers return to their own works in order to rework them, this book offers theoretical considerations to postcolonial studies on "literariness" in relation to the near-obsessive degree of rewriting to which Caribbean writers have subjected their own literary texts. Focusing specifically on Frank tienne, this book offers an overview of how the defining aesthetic and thematic components of Frank tienne's major works have emerged over the course of his forty-year writing career. It reveals the marked development of key notions guiding his literary creation since the 1960s, and demonstrates that rewriting illustrates the central aesthetic of the Spiral which has always shaped his oeuvre. It is, the book argues, the constantly moving form of the Spiral which Frank tienne explores through his constant reworking of his previously written texts. Frank tienne and Rewriting negotiates between the literary and material ends of the burgeoning field of postcolonial studies, arguing that literary characteristics in Frank tienne connect with changing political, social, economic, and cultural circumstances in the Haiti he rewrites. |