Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sourieau, Marie-Agnès

Titel

Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean by Jason Herbeck (review)

Ist Teil von

• The French Review, 2019-05, Vol.92 (4), p.201-202

Ort / Verlag

Carbondale: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Project Muse All Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Subsequently, the chapter examines how the construction of French Caribbean literary expression derives from the natural topography as well as human landscapes. [...]Herbeck does not approach the construction of literary identity from the perspective of genre and aesthetics as most studies do but from "more open, autonomous beginnings" (57). [...]Yanick Lahens's two post-earthquake novels provide a counterdiscourse to the narratives of disaster that have cast Haiti in a negative light from the time of colonization to the 2010 seism. According to Herbeck, Failles and Guillaume et Nathalie offer an authentic Haitian approach to the literature of reconstruction.