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 - The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.