Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau’s Works

Lisa Connell, Delphine Gras (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1099-5 (ISBN)

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As one of the most prominent voices from and about the French Caribbean, Gisèle Pineau has garnered significant scholarly attention; however, this interest has culminated in precious few volumes devoted entirely to the author and her work. In response to this lack of in-depth critical attention, Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau’s Works brings together a range of perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic and across the Pacific to explore the unique ways in which Gisèle Pineau’s works redefine the concept of resistance, particularly as it relates to gender, race, history, and Antillean identity. As this volume ultimately demonstrates, resistance holds up a mirror to the political, economic, and cultural forces that have shaped the past, construct the present, and build the future. It argues that Pineau’s characters open the narrative frame for reading them and move us beyond the categories of the wholly defiant or the inherently complicit. Above all, as they invite us to reimagine resistance, they expose our expectations and hopefully shift our understanding about what it means to rise and to fall in a world we seek to call our own.

Lisa Connell is professor of french at the University of West Georgia. Delphine Gras is associate professor at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Acknowledgments

Introduction, Lisa Connell and Delphine Gras

Chapter One: Resistance and Rebellion in Gisèle Pineau’s “Paroles de terre en larmes,” Antonia Wimbush

Chapter Two: Cyclones, Cycles, and Spirals—Storm, Sex, and Spaces of Resistance in Gisèle Pineau’s L’Espérance-macadam, Alicia Doyen-Rodríguez

Chapter Three: Resisting Genre: Auto-fictional Practices in Folie, aller simple. Journée ordinaire d’une infirmière by Gisèle Pineau, Ann-Sofie Persson

Chapter Four: Silences and Beyond in Gisèle Pineau’s Fleur de Barbarie and Les Voyages de Merry Sisal, Orane Onyekpe-Touzet

Chapter Five: Photographing the Caribbean: Visual Imagination in Gisèle Pineau’s Femmes des Antilles, Viviana Pezzullo

Chapter Six: Places of Paradise: Rewriting Mythic Women through Caribbean Garden Spaces, Lisa Connell

Chapter Seven: A Crime with No Victim? Resisting Prejudices and Structural Racism in Gisèle Pineau’s Le parfum des sirènes, Delphine Gras

Chapter Eight: Rehabilitating the Guadeloupean Adrienne Fidelin: Pineau Rights History in Ady, soleil noir, Bonnie Thomas

Index

About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	06.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Co-Autor	Orane Onyekpe-Touzet, Ann-Sofie Persson, Viviana Pezzullo
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 237 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
ISBN-10	1-6669-1099-6 / 1666910996
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-1099-5 / 9781666910995
Zustand	Neuware