Bonnie Thomas

Breadfruit or Chestnut?

Gender Construction in the French Caribbean Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

Breadfruit or Chestnut? examines gender construction comparatively across the fiction of contemporary writers of Guadeloupe and Martinique. In particular, it explores the construction of gender identity by six authors-three male and three female-who have never been brought together in a study of this issue.

Produktdetails

• After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780739115831
• ISBN-10: 0739115839
• Artikelnr.: 22176867

Autorenporträt

Bonnie Thomas is a lecturer in the European Languages & Studies department at The University of Western Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Gender Identity and the French Caribbean Chapter 2 Literary
Background and Gender Bias Chapter 3 "Man is a Breadfruit and Woman is a
Chestnut" Chapter 4 History, Lack and Gender Chapter 5 Two Faces of the
femme matador Chapter 6 Gender in the créoliste Satirical Novel Chapter 7
Moving Away From Stereotypes Chapter 8 Conclusion: An Analysis of French
Caribbean Gender Identity Chapter 9 Appendix A: Interview with Patrick
Chamoiseau (extracts) Chapter 10 Appendix B: Interview with Maryse Condé
(extracts) Chapter 11 Appendix C: Interview with Raphaël Confiant
(extracts) Chapter 12 Bibliography