Lexington Books
Pages: 170
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Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-9711-0 • Hardback • December 2014 • $114.00 • (£88.00)
978-0-7391-9713-4 • eBook • December 2014 • $108.00 • (£83.00)
Véronique Maisier is associate professor at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale where she teachers French and Francophone literature and culture.
Violence in Caribbean Literature provides an important and much needed contribution to the corpus of literary studies of Caribbean literature. . . .[It] represents a laudable and welcome addition to this much needed scholarly enterprise.
— Research in African Literatures
Violence in Caribbean Literature successfully combines original textual analysis with well-documented contextual explanations. As such, it is likely to appeal to specialists of Caribbean literature as well as to newcomers to the field and will most certainly enhance or facilitate their understanding of a cultural area whose foundational ambivalence can render it elusive.
— New West Indian Guide
Using theoretical framework from cultural and literary studies, Véronique Maisier’s Violence in Caribbean Literature: Stories of Stones and Blood analyzes the representation of epistemic violence whether it be colonial, cultural, psychological, and physical in Caribbean Francophone and Anglophone literature. This book offers insights into the complexities resulting from the legacy of colonial violence and its disastrous effects on people who share a history of slavery and colonialism. It should be useful to scholars in literature, postcolonial, Anglophone, and Francophone studies.
— Anne M. François, Eastern University