TY - JOUR
KW - Arts -- Literature -- Literary studies
KW - Social sciences -- Population studies -- Human populations
KW - Behavioral sciences -- Sociology -- Human societies
KW - Physical sciences -- Earth sciences -- Geography
KW - Arts -- Literature -- Literary devices
KW - Arts -- Performing arts -- Theater
KW - Behavioral sciences -- Psychology -- Social psychology
KW - Social sciences -- Gender studies -- Gender bias
KW - Social sciences -- Human geography -- Literary devices
AU - Deborah Gaensbauer
AB - Maryse Condé, widely recognized as a novelist who explores the complex geographies of colonial and postcolonial experience, began her career as a radical playwright. Her first published work was a five-act play titled Dieu nous l'a donné. Using the heightened materiality of the stage to confront misogynic territorial connotations and clichés, Condé offers an angry and potentially liberating geography lesson. Her portrayal of the promiscuous permeability and subversive resilience of Caribbean feminine spaces challenges reader or spectator with positions of identity that do not conform to either Western social models or optimistic celebrations of a nourishing Créolité.
IS - 2
N2 - Maryse Condé, widely recognized as a novelist who explores the complex geographies of colonial and postcolonial experience, began her career as a radical playwright. Her first published work was a five-act play titled Dieu nous l'a donné. Using the heightened materiality of the stage to confront misogynic territorial connotations and clichés, Condé offers an angry and potentially liberating geography lesson. Her portrayal of the promiscuous permeability and subversive resilience of Caribbean feminine spaces challenges reader or spectator with positions of identity that do not conform to either Western social models or optimistic celebrations of a nourishing Créolité.
PY - 2000
SN - 0016111X
SP - 287
EP - 295
EP - 
T2 - The French Review
TI - Geography and Identity in Maryse Condé's Dieu nous l'a donné
VL - 74
ER -