The Creole child through West Indian literary history. TOME 3

This third volume contains a long reflection on the singular and controversial genre of autobiography. Several opposing theses and arguments inform and enlighten us about the difficulties our writers have overcome to communicate with their readers. An in-depth study of the distinctive features and functions of the childhood narrative in our French-speaking Caribbean literature is also proposed. The passage from social claim to identity claim is announced. The delimited corpus is amply representative. It gathers seven texts, that is to say, in total, three generations of Guadeloupean and Martiniquean novelists.