Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing

This book is the first major study of French Caribbean literature in light of postcoloniality. Through readings of Aim Csaire, Edouard Glissant, Maryse Cond, Baudelaire, Freud, and others, Jeannie Suk illuminates how debates about ngritude, antillanit, and creolit 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.