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Article: Soundings in French Caribbean Writing since 1950: The Shock of Space and Time.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2005
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Soundings in French Caribbean Writing since 1950: The Shock of Space and Time. By MARY GALLAGHER. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. viii+293 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] * ISBN 0-19-815982-x.
Given the Caribbean region's tortured colonial and postcolonial history, and the forced historical displacement of many of its peoples, it is inevitable that questions of time and space should be a major preoccupation of Caribbean writing. Conceding the generic and linguistic limitations of her study-there is little discussion of drama or poetry, or of writing in Creole-Mary Gallagher rereads post-Negritude prose fiction from Martinique and Guadeloupe in an attempt to show ...