Overview: Focuses on recent, twenty-first century authors such as Condé, Chamoiseau, Pineau, Schwartz-Bart and Glissant, setting it apart from other studies in the field.Offers discussion of French Caribbean liThrough a series of case studies spanning the bounds of literature, photography, essay, and manifesto, this book examines the ways in which literary texts do theoretical, ethical, and political work. Nicole Simek approaches the relationship between literature, theory, and public life through a specific site, the French Antillean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, and focuses on two mu
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