Lexington Books
Pages: 212
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7391-1583-1 • Hardback • July 2006 • $92.00 • (£71.00)
978-0-7391-1584-8 • Paperback • October 2007 • $45.99 • (£35.00)
Bonnie Thomas is a lecturer in the European Languages & Studies department at The University of Western Australia.
Chapter 1 Gender Identity and the French Caribbean
Chapter 2 Literary Background and Gender Bias
Chapter 3 "Man is a Breadfruit and Woman is a Chestnut"
Chapter 4 History, Lack and Gender
Chapter 5 Two Faces of the femme matador
Chapter 6 Gender in the créoliste Satirical Novel
Chapter 7 Moving Away From Stereotypes
Chapter 8 Conclusion: An Analysis of French Caribbean Gender Identity
Chapter 9 Appendix A: Interview with Patrick Chamoiseau (extracts)
Chapter 10 Appendix B: Interview with Maryse Condé (extracts)
Chapter 11 Appendix C: Interview with Raphaël Confiant (extracts)
Chapter 12 Bibliography
Thomas has undertaken the important task of reading for gender construction comparatively across the fiction of male and female authors of Guadeloupe and Martinique since the 1960s. Few scholars have been willing to invest the necessary effort. The results are stimulating and sometimes surprising, especially at the intersection of historical representation and gender construction.
— A. James Arnold, University of Virginia