Entretien avec Maryse Condé : Quelques acquis et manques de la littérature francophone des Antilles

ABSTRACT

Maryse Condé answers questions about the past and future of francophone literature from the Caribbean, as well as the ways literature in general can face the challenges of globalization.

KEYWORDS:

• Littérature francophone
• Antilles
• Maryse Condé
• Joseph Zobel
• Patrick Chamoiseau

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Roger Célestin

Roger Célestin is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature and co-chair of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Connecticut. He has written on travel literature, detective fiction, film, and translation, among other topics. He is the author of From Cannibals to Radicals. Figures and Limits of Exoticism (U of Minnesota P, 1996), co-editor (with Isabelle de Courtivron and Eliane DalMolin) of Beyond French Feminisms: Debates on Women, Politics, and Culture in France, 1980–2001 (Palgrave/St. Martin's, 2002), and co-author (with Eliane DalMolin) of France From 1851 to the Present: Universalism in Crisis (Palgrave, 2007).

Maryse Condé is a writer and professor emeritus of Columbia University. She is one of the major authors of literature from the Caribbean and of what might be called “world literature.” Her considerable œuvre includes novels, plays, essays, récits, and translations. Among her numerous publications: Ségou (1984); Moi, Tituba, sorcière noire de Salem (1986); Heremakhonon (1988); Traversée de la mangrove (1989); her latest novel is Le Fabuleux et triste destin d'Ivan et d'Ivana (2017). Maryse Condé has received many honors and awards, including the Prix de l'Académie Française, the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe, and the Prix Marguerite Yourcenar; she is Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la France and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.