art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

ISBN: PB: 9780857427557

ISBN: HB: 9780857420978

Seagull Books

February 2020

232 pp.

20.3x12.7 cm

PB:
£11,99
QTY:
HB:
£19,00
QTY:

Journey of a Caribbean Writer

For nearly four decades, Maryse Conde, best known for her novels "Segu" and "Windward Heights", has been at the forefront of French Caribbean literature. In this collection of essays and lectures, written over many years and in response to the challenges posed by a changing world, she reflects on the ideas and histories that have moved her. From the use of French as her literary language – despite its colonial history – to the agonies of the Middle Passage, at the horrors of African dictatorship, and the politically induced poverty of the Caribbean to migration under globalization, Conde casts her unflinching eye over the world which is her inheritance, her burden, and her future.

Even while paying homage to her intellectual and literary influences – including Frantz Fanon, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Aime Cesaire – Conde establishes in these pages the singularity of her vision and the reason for the enormous admiration that her writing has garnered from readers and critics alike.

About the Author

Maryse Conde is professor emerita at Columbia University, where she created the Center for French and Francophone Studies. She has written over twenty novels, including "Segu", "Windward Heights", "The Story of the Cannibal Woman", and "Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?"

Reviews

"Maryse Conde is one of the most important novelists writing today. Her stories are both historical and present, in the moment, murmuring secrets flavored with a Caribbean language of swishing rhythms, sweet as nectar, and lyrical as the swooshing skirts of the Guadeloupean women" – Quincey Troupe, author of "Transcircularities: New and Selected Poems" and "Miles: The Autobiography"