Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Duke University, 1998) presented under the title: From négritude to créolité.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-161) and index.
Contents
Légitime Défense: a precursor to modern black Francophone literature -- What was Négritude? -- Gendering Négritude: Paulette Nardal's contribution to the birth of modern Francophone literature -- Rerooting the uprooted: Edouard Glissant's Antillanité and beyond -- The Créolité Movement: reconfiguring identity in the Caribbean in the late twentieth century.