Eating well, reading well: Maryse Condé and the ethics of interpretation
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Main Author: Simek, Nicole 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Rodopi 2008
Series:Francopolyphonies 7
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-228 and index
Eating Well, Reading Well; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION: INTERPRETING THROUGH EXAMPLES; CHAPTER 1 READING HISTORY: THE EXAMPLE OF THE PAST AFTER GLOBALIZATION; CHAPTER 2 RUSING WITH THE CANON: INSOLENT IMITATION, PARODIC INTERTEXTUALITY; CHAPTER 3 WRITING VIOLENCE: COLLECTIVE TRAUMAS, SINGULAR PASTS; CHAPTER 4 THE CANNIBAL READER: DIGESTING THE OTHER, INTERPRETING COMMUNITY; CONCLUSION: COMME UN INDIEN TUPINAMBA ... ; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
While rejecting a conception of literature as moral philosophy, or a device for imparting particular morals to the reader through exemplary characters and plots, Maryse Condé has displayed throughout her writing career a strong valorization of literature as ethical critique. This study examines her singular approach to literary commitment as a critical reworking of aesthetic models and modes of interpretation. Focusing on four dominant problematics in Condé's work--history and globalization in La Belle Créole and Moi, Tituba sorcière ... noire de Salem, intertextuality and reception in La migrat
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ISBN:1435613627
9042023279
9401205280
9781435613621
9789042023277
9789401205283

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