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Maryse Conde
Follows the wayward fortunes of a noble African family. A book made up of many characters and countless stories, The Last of the African Kings skillfully intertwines the themes of…
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None of the villagers are particularly surprised when Francis Sancher, a secretive amd melancholy man who predicted an unnatural death for himself, is found dead, face down in the mud…
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Francoise Pfaff
Born in Guadeloupe in 1937, Maryse Conde lived in Guinea after it won its independence from France. Later she lived in Ghana and Senegal during turbulent moments in the histories…
De la Guadeloupe des annees 1950 jusqu'aux premieres annees etudiantes a Paris, Maryse Conde se livre ici par fragments. Derniere-nee d'une famille nombreuse de la bourgeoisie noire de Pointe-a-Pitre, Maryse…
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La nouvelle edition d'Objectif Diplomatie 1 offre: l'actualisation des documents culturels dans une nouvelle maquette claire et aereedes nouveaux tableaux de langues complets pour faciliter la memorisation des structuresune preparation…
Babakar is an African doctor living alone until the child Anais comes into his life. Forced to abandon his solitude, he takes her to Haiti in search of her family.
Conde depicts the Bambara of 1797, a kingdom in Africa flourishing before thecoming of Islam and slavery. The tale follows the Traore family, a noble clanentrusted by the king. The…
Vivid stories from a childhood in Guadeloupe and Paris from the celebrated Caribbean novelist.
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Translation of: Victoire, les saveurs et les mots.
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Eva Sansavior
This book combines new readings of literary texts that have attracted significant critical attention with less widely read texts and a selection of Conde’s critical essays and interviews. It situates…
For nearly four decades, the author, best known for her novels Segu and Windward Heights , has been at the forefront of French Caribbean literature. In this collection of essays…
First published as En attendant la montaee des eaux in France in 2010 by JC Lattaes. –Title page verso.
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By the winner of the 2018 Alternative Nobel prize in literature, a novel of twins with a bond so strong they become afraid of their feelings for one another.
The Bossale Civilisation, first published in 1978, is as relevant today as when it first appeared. It illumines History as to its calculated falsehoods, and the persistence, through care and…
Dawn Fulton
Staging a dialogue between Maryse Conde’s novels and the field of postcolonial studies, this work argues that Conde enacts a strategy of critical incorporations in her fiction, imitating and transforming…
Derek O'Regan
This work is a sedulous enquiry into the intertextual practice of Maryse Conde in Moi, Tituba, sorciere… noire de Salem (1986), Traversee de la mangrove (1989) and La Migration des…
Maryse Conde, Richard Philcox (trans.)
A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumoured to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbean author Maryse Conde follows his journey in search of his origins and mission.
the latest novel from the 2018 winner of the alternative nobel prize.
One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: 'A miracle!' Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with grey-green eyes like the sea. But where does…
A transposition of Wuthering Heights to a Caribbean context. Heathcliff is reincarnated in the character Rayze, and late-19th-century Cuba and Guadeloupe - a society in transition in the wake of…
This new novel by the 2005 Hurston Wright Legacy winner is full of the wit, irony and mystery that she has become known for.
Maryse Conde is one of the best-known and most beloved French Caribbean literary voices. The author of more than twenty novels, she was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize…
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Translation of: Mets et merveilles –Copyright page.
Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo
Penser l'Afrique, la reflechir aux yeux de ses enfants et de sa diaspora, la questionner pour la remettre au coeur du debat identitaire. Panser l'Afrique de ses souverains de naguere…
Isabelle Grob
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Franzoesisch - Literatur, Note: 2,7, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main (Institut fur Romanische Sprachen und Literaturen), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Guadeloupe…
Adriana Zuhlke
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2.3, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, 30 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The…
A diverse, interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring what makes Maryse Conde a writer for our times
Possessing one of the most vital voices in international letters, Maryse Conde added to an already acclaimed career the New Academy Prize in Literature in 2018. The fourteenth novel by…
Land of Many Colors is set in the fictional city of Fort Pilote in the French Caribbean. It opens with the deaths of a young activist and his mother in…
Leah D. Hewitt
Examines the lives and selected writings of five major contemporary French women writers: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Conde. Part literary criticism and part…
Vanessa Lee
Four Caribbean Women Playwrights aims to expand Caribbean and postcolonial studies beyond fiction and poetry by bringing to the fore innovative women playwrights from the French Caribbean: Ina Cesaire, Maryse…
Intertwines the themes of exile, lost origins, memory, and hope. This book, set mainly in the Americanas, begins with the regal Behanzin, an African king who opposed French colonialism and…
The 10th Berlin Biennale does not propose to offer a coherent interpretation of history or the present, but it explores the political potential of strategies of self-preservation. The catalog accompanying…
This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in…
Thierry T. Gustave
Pour devoiler les aspects de la colonisation, Thierry T. Gustave explore la symbolique de l'arbre et celle du rhizome dans les oeuvres litteraires de la Martinique et de la Guadeloupe.
Kathleen Gyssels
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Elise Nathalie Ngo Bakonde
Dans le pr sent travail de recherche, Elise Nathalie Ngo Bakond fait une tude du ph nom ne migratoire dans la litt rature contemporaine d'expression fran aise. En se focalisant…
The first book to explore the entire range of modern and contemporary art of the Caribbean
