Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau’s Works

Lisa Connell, Delphine Gras

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781978794238
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: French Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

As one of the most prominent voices from and about the French Caribbean, Gisèle Pineau has garnered significant scholarly attention; however, this interest has culminated in precious few volumes devoted entirely to the author and her work. In response to this lack of in-depth critical attention, Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau's Works brings together a range of perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic and across the Pacific to explore the unique ways in which Gisèle Pineau's works redefine the concept of resistance, particularly as it relates to gender, race, history, and Antillean identity. As this volume ultimately demonstrates, resistance holds up a mirror to the political, economic, and cultural forces that have shaped the past, construct the present, and build the future. It argues that Pineau's characters open the narrative frame for reading them and move us beyond the categories of the wholly defiant or the inherently complicit. Above all, as they invite us to reimagine resistance, they expose our expectations and hopefully shift our understanding about what it means to rise and to fall in a world we seek to call our own.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Resistance and Rebellion in Gisèle Pineau’s “Paroles de terre en larmes”
• Cyclones, Cycles, and Spirals-Storm, Sex, and Spaces of Resistance in Gisèle
• Resisting Genre
• Silences and Beyond in Gisèle Pineau’s Fleur de Barbarie and Les Voyages de Merry Sisal
• Photographing the Caribbean
• Places of Paradise
• A Crime with No Victim? Resisting Prejudices and Structural Racism in Gisèle Pineau’s Le parfu
• Rehabilitating the Guadeloupean Adrienne Fidelin
• Index
• About the Contributors