Date: Tue, 28 Aug 1956 01:09:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Guadeloupe


 RE. on Schwartz-Bart, without promoting my own work overmuch (sorry!),
first, a personal post just received from Prof. Sam HAIG at Warwick U.
which might help; I quote:

"My single-authored, book has just come out (at last). It's called
Mapping a Tradition: Francophone Women's Writing from Guadeloupe and it's
published in the MHRA Texts and Dissertations Series by W.S Maney in Leeds,
UK. Any library orders would be most welcome!!"

Also edited by Haig, Berg's 1999-2000 Anthology of Caribbean Writing (don't
have a copy on my desk for the exact title, but you'll know it when you see
it)

Next, past special issues on Francophone women writers in  STUDIES IN 20TH
CENT. LIT  (Winter 93; my own "What's in a Name: Elective Genealogy in
Sch-B"); FRENCH REVIEW and L'ESPRIT CREATEUR  (Summer 93; my own "In the
Name of the FAther" Utopia, Dystopia in Ti_jean").

Finally, the old --still very useful-- battle-horse ed. CaroleBoyce-Davies
and Elaine Savory Fido, OUT OF THE KUMBLA: CARIB WOMEN AND LIT (Africa
World Press 90), with a seminal post-face/essay by Sylvia Wynter ("Beyond
Miranda's Meaning: Unsilencing the Demonic Ground of Caliban's Woman").

I am sure more titles will pour from the rest of our very helpful list.

Speaking of the list,  I've hugely enjoyed the --now friendlier and
friendlier-- sparring between Eric D. and his assorted dissenters (sorry,
ditched the copies; it is Erich opr Eric? A query that goes to the heart of
the debate, doesn't it!).  Less ego, more compassion are always welcome. If
I can presume, I would say E. D. is a caustic sort of fellow --something
which I love!-- but such exchanges do not always come across in the
intended register when transmitted electronically.  Something about losing
the materiality of the voice and body gestures  (performance scholars, are
you reading?). Happy Bastille Day, nevertheless. cz

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Clarisse Zimra
Dept. of English and Comparative Literatures
Member, Faculty Research Seminar on Irish and Immigration Studies
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL  62901-4503
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