Taking on Twins by Carolyn Zane

Taking on Twins by Carolyn Zane

Keith L. Walker traverses the traditionally imposed boundaries of geography and race as he examines the literary culture produced by French speakers and writers born outside France. Focusing on the commonalities revealed in their shared language and colonial history, Walker examines for the first time the work of six writers who, while artistically distinct and geographically scattered, share complex sensibilities regarding their own relationship to France and the French language and, as he demonstrates, produce a counterdiscourse to their colonizers' modern literary traditions.
Martinique, French Guyana, Senegal, Morocco, and Haiti serve as the stage for the struggle these writers have faced with French language and culture, a struggle influenced by the legacy of Aime Cesaire. In his stand against the modernist principles of Charles Baudelaire, Walker argues, Cesaire has become the preeminent francophone countermodernist. A further examination of the relationships between Cesaire and the writers Leon Gontron Damas, Mariama Ba, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Ken Bugul, and Gerard Etienne forms the core of the book and leads to Walker's characterization of francophone literature as having slipped the knot, or escaped the snares of the familiar binary oppositions of modernism. Instead, he discovers in these writers a shared consciousness rooted in an effort to counter and denounce modernist humanist discourse and pointing toward a new subjectivity formed through the negotiation of an alternative modernity.
Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture will engage readers interested in French literature and in postcolonial, Caribbean, African, American, and francophone studies.

Pizzuti, Carolyn Suzanne: - Carolyn Zane is the best selling, award-winning author of more than thirty novels for three publishers: Random House/Waterbrook Press, Multnomah Publishing and Harlequin/Silhouette where her sales numbers consistently finished strong. Her writing has earned numerous awards, including the prestigious Kay Snow Award and a Moondance nod for her screenplay. Carolyn lives with her husband, Matt and their five children and three dogs in the scenic Willamette Valley in Oregon.

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ISBN 13	9780373387113
ISBN 10	0373387113
Title	Taking on Twins
Author	Carolyn Zane
Series	Coltons S
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Silhouette Books
Year published	2002-12-20
Number of pages	251
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