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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"French Caribbean"”.
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The Atlantic Revolutions and the Movement of Information in the British and French Caribbean, c. 1763-1804
… among select colonies in the British and French Caribbean during a series of military conflicts from 1763 to 1804, including the American War of Independence (1775-1783), French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802), and the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). The colonies included in this study are …
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French Caribbean Women and the Problem of Empowerment: A look at Moi, Tituba, sorcière...Noire de Salem and Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle
… explores the problem of self-empowerment for the French Caribbean Black woman as presented in the novels Moi, Tituba, sorcière...Noire de Salem and Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle. The respective authors, Maryse Condé and Simone Schwarz- Bart, use fiction to convey the plight of women in the …
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Je traduis donc je suis: l'impossible entre-deux des fictions créolitaires
… challenges posed by the prose writing of two French postcolonial Caribbean writers whose claim to a different identity is embedded within the coloniser’s language. Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant ‘translate’ their Creole selves into their French narrative prose in order to articulate …
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A Tocquevillean analysis of the democratic peace research program and modern liberal foreign policy
… Tocqueville researched and wrote extensively on French foreign policy. His most notable works are several reports endorsing French colonial projects in Algeria and articles advocating for the emancipation of slavery in the French Caribbean colonies. In this essay I argue that one cannot truly …
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Writing hybridity: identity, dialogics, and women's narratives in the Americas
… America and its people. Similarly, in the French Caribbean, creoleness put limits on the otherwise fluid interaction of African, native, and European peoples. More recently, postmodernist notions of hybridity assume that cross-cultural encounters cause individuals to live in a state of …
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The Impact of the Haitian Revolution on the Hispanic Caribbean, c. 1791-1830
… thesis examines how the slave uprising in the French Caribbean sugar colony of Saint-Domingue (1791-1804) had dramatic and long-lasting repercussions on the neighbouring Spanish possessions of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo. Events in Saint-Domingue took place during a period of profound …
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Citizens of a Genre: Forms, Fields and Practices of Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Ethnographic Fiction
<p>This dissertation examines French and Francophone texts, contexts and thematic problems that comprise a genre I call "ethnographic fiction," whose development we can trace throughout the twentieth century in several geographic locations and in distinct historical moments. During the twentieth …
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The captives are translated, attached at the wrists' : a study of Antillean identities in the works of Édouard Glissant, Maryse Condé and Patrick Chamoiseau
… interpretations of Creole identities in the French Caribbean, with reference to the literary works of three esteemed French Creole authors, namely, Édouard Glissant, Maryse Condé and Patrick Chamoiseau. Due to the horrific nature of the transatlantic slave trade as well as the arrogance of …