Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing

'This book is an important addition to the growing field of Caribbean studies, and underlines the truth that much of the most impressive work in this domain is being done in English.' -Modern Language Review 'Postcolonial Paradoxes should be welcomed as an important contemporary assessment of key figures within Antillean writing.' -Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural WritingsThis book is the first major study of French Caribbean literature in light of postcoloniality. Through readings of Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, Baudelaire, Freud, and others, Jeannie Suk illuminates how debates about négritude, antillanité, and creolité contribute to paradoxes at the heart of postcolonial modes. Postcolonial Paradoxes is a major contribution to criticism and theory, of interest to scholars and students of postcolonialism, Caribbean and African diaspora literature, French literature, and psychoanalysis.