Literary Criticism Comparative Literature
Dany Laferrire
Essays On His Works
- Publisher
- Guernica Editions
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2013
- Category
- Comparative Literature, Canadian, Books & Reading
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550717419
- Publish Date
- Dec 2013
- List Price
- $20.00
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Description
This collection of essays looks at the body of work of Quebec writer Dany Laferrière, including his notorious first novel, Comment faire l'amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer, through a variety of critical and analytic lenses. Issues such as identity, privilege, memory, exile and return are examined in relation to his writing. Among the contributors are: Ng'ang'a wa Muchiri, Gabrielle Parker, Lucy Brisley, Lynn Penrod, Amy J. Ransom, and Lee Skallerup Bessette.
About the author
Lee Skallerup Bessette is from Quebec and has a B.A. and a M.A. from the Univesité de Sherbrooke. Her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature are from the University of Alberta. She is an associate professor at Florida A&M University.
Editorial Reviews
In place of authenticity and a unified, organic sense of subjectivity one finds a profoundly historical, political, and contingent sense of self-identification … Caribbean subjects have never been able to take for granted the occasion for speaking, nor the terms in which they will be heard and recognized.
Gillian Whitlock