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For nearly four decades, Maryse Conde, best known for her novels "Segu" and "Windward Heights", has been at the forefront of French Caribbean literature. In this collection of essays and lectures, written over many years and in response to the challenges posed by a changing world, she reflects on the ideas and histories that have moved her. From the use of French as her literary language-despite its colonial history - to the agonies of the Middle Passage, the horrors of African dictatorship, the politically induced poverty of the Caribbean, and migration under globalization, Conde casts her unflinching eye over the world which is her inheritance, her burden, and her future. Even while paying homage to her intellectual and literary influences-including Frantz Fanon, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Aime Cesaire-Conde establishes in these pages the singularity of her vision and the reason for the enormous admiration that her writing has garnered from readers and critics alike.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Journey of a Caribbean Writer
• Author: Maryse Conde
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 220
• EAN: 9780857420978
• ISBN: 0857420976
• ID: 04944903
• Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Weight: 318 g
• Dimensions: 143 × 227 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. February 2014

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