Caraïbe Fantôme: The play of difference in the Francophone Caribbean

Yale French Studies

Volumn 103, Issue , 2003, Pages 93-105

  Dash, J Michael ^a  

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EID: 60949131544     PISSN: 00440078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2307/3182538     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Michael Richardson and Krzyztof Fijalkowski, Refusal of the Shadow (London: Verso, 1996), 1
2. As late as 1954, Auguste Viatte could classify writing in French from the Caribbean as "littérature de l'Amérique française, " which, with its "émotivité nègre," was a mere adjunct to literature from the métropole. See Viatte, Histoire littéraire de l'Amérique française des origines à 1950 (Paris: PUF, 1954)
3. James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988), 173
4. Michel Leiris, Miroir de l'Afrique (Paris: Gallimard, 1996), 89. Here and throughout, translations are my own unless indicated otherwise
5. Leiris, Zébrage (Paris: Gallimard, 1992), 90
6. André Breton, Martinique charmeuse de serpents, (Paris: Pauvert, 1972), 93
7. In his foreword to Voodoo in Haiti (London: Andre Deutsch, 1959), Alfred Metraux explains that the idea of the "Bureau of Ethnology" was born out of discussions with Roumain after witnessing the destructive effects of the Catholic Church's campaign against popular religion
8. Pierre Mabille, Message de l'étranger (Paris: Plasma, 1981), 8
9. See Roumain's preface to Edris St. Amand's Essai d'explication de Dialogues de mes lampes (Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie de l'État, 1942)
10. Magloire St. Aude, Dialogue de mes lampes (Paris: Première Personne, 1970), 22
11. St. Aude, "Veillée," Conjonction 177-79 (1988), 479
12. Édouard Glissant, Soleil de la conscience (Paris: Seuil, 1957), 19. Page numbers are taken from this edition
13. Glissant, L'intention poétique (Paris: Gallimard, 1997), 24
14. Jean-Marc Moura, Littératures francophones et théorie postcoloniale (Paris: PUF, 1999), 132
15. René Ménil, Tracées (Paris: Laffont, 1981), 18
16. In her essay "Creolization versus Francophonie," in Maryse Condé, ed., L'héritage de Caliban (Point-à-Pitre: Jasor, 1992), Bernadette Cailler also points to Glissant's importance in theorizing a literature of the Americas outside of francophonie
17. Glissant, Faulkner, Mississippi (Paris: Stock, 1996), 215