PAST AND DEAD ENDS IN THE CARIBBEAN Comparat Postcolonial
Five sleepers
The Caribbean and its diaspora claim an imaginary common , aesthetic and ethical concerns that echo beyond linguistic waves diffract "imagined community" Caribbean. However, these literatures are rarely compared, the comparative approach remains too often a dead end. From five "sleepers", ten French-and English-speaking authors are here compared. Ju xtaposant in each chapter and a voice speaking voice French-speaking Caribbean this extent, striking similarities, beyond the balkanization appear. Similarities in the use of slave narrative at Morrison and Condé, in the taboo of gender in Baldwin and Damascus in the popularity of travelogue in North America and in Eretz int carry him and Laferrière Danticat, or the lack of drama in Creole on Haitian Revolution (Fignole and Smartt Bell). Finally, the respective beginnings of Harris and Glissant already sketch, in parallel, creolization (Aesthetic, stylistic, thematic).
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