Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Childhood, Genre and the Scene of Recognition
- 1 The Emergence of a Tradition
- 2 Apples and Mimic Men: Patrick Chamoiseau's Une Enfance créole
- 3 The Poetics of Ethnicity in Raphaël Confiant's Ravines du devant–jour and Le Cahier de romances
- 4 Alienation and Estrangement in Maryse Condé's Le Coeur à rire et à pleurer
- 5 Childhood, the Environment and Diaspora: Daniel Maximin's Tu, c'est l'enfance and Gisèle Pineau's L'Exil selon Julia
- 6 Thwarted Expectations? Stasis and Change in Haiti in Dany Laferrière's L'Odeur du café and Le Charme des après–midi sans fin
- 7 Parental Paradigms and Gender Stereotypes
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Childhood, Genre and the Scene of Recognition
- 1 The Emergence of a Tradition
- 2 Apples and Mimic Men: Patrick Chamoiseau's Une Enfance créole
- 3 The Poetics of Ethnicity in Raphaël Confiant's Ravines du devant–jour and Le Cahier de romances
- 4 Alienation and Estrangement in Maryse Condé's Le Coeur à rire et à pleurer
- 5 Childhood, the Environment and Diaspora: Daniel Maximin's Tu, c'est l'enfance and Gisèle Pineau's L'Exil selon Julia
- 6 Thwarted Expectations? Stasis and Change in Haiti in Dany Laferrière's L'Odeur du café and Le Charme des après–midi sans fin
- 7 Parental Paradigms and Gender Stereotypes
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2013