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Toxic Island et L’Empreinte à Crusoé : l’individuation de l’identité franco-antillaise
| Title: | Toxic Island et L’Empreinte à Crusoé : l’individuation de l’identité franco-antillaise. |
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| Name(s): |
Jurawan, Kimberley, author Gosser Esquilin, Mary Ann, Thesis advisor Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Date Created: | 2015 | |
| Date Issued: | 2015 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
| Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
| Extent: | 149 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | Within the Caribbean, the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique are unusual: they are French overseas departments and thus also European Union members. As such, they must assimilate to French national culture even though their heterogeneous populations, mainly descendants of exploited imported labour, have their own unique island identity. Their heavy economic dependence on France and the effects of modernization and globalization pose further identitarian challenges for them. Franco-Antillean literature clearly reflects this long-standing identity confusion. This thesis explores two very recent novels— Toxic Island by Guadeloupean Ernest Pépin and L’Empreinte à Crusoé by Martinican Patrick Chamoiseau— and their divergent stylistic treatments of individuation. Both are inspired by Édouard Glissant’s theories of Relation and Tout- Monde; both engage questions of language, orality, the island space, race, the subject of alterity and the role of the arts and artists in identity formation. Yet both are also marked by distinctly unique forms of ambivalence. | |
| Identifier: | FA00004447 (IID) | |
| Degree granted: | Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015 | |
| Collection: | FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection | |
| Note(s): | Includes bibliography. | |
| Subject(s): |
Caribbean literature (French) -- Criticism and interpretation Chamoiseau, Patrick -- L'Empreinte à Crusoé -- Criticism and interpretation Group identity Identity (Philosophical concept) Individuation (Psychology) -- Social aspects Jungian psychology Pépin, Ernest -- Toxic island -- Criticism and interpretation West Indies, French -- In literature |
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| Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
| Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
| Links: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004447 | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004447 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | Copyright © is held by the author, with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU | |
| Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |
