Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Questioning the Construction of Dogma
- 1 Past and Present Matter(s): Vernacular Architecture, the Caribbean House, and the Building Blocks of Literature
- 2 Righting/Writing the Faulted House in Édouard Glissant's La Lézarde
- 3 Gouverneurs de la … Mangrove: Architextual Authenticity in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la Mangrove
- 4 Reflections on Interior Design: Daniel Maximin's L'Île et une nuit
- 5 Literature of Reconstruction: An Architextual Assessment of Post-Earthquake Haiti in Yanick Lahens's Failles and Guillaume et Nathalie
- Conclusion: Reconquering Dimensions: No Place Like Home
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Questioning the Construction of Dogma
- 1 Past and Present Matter(s): Vernacular Architecture, the Caribbean House, and the Building Blocks of Literature
- 2 Righting/Writing the Faulted House in Édouard Glissant's La Lézarde
- 3 Gouverneurs de la … Mangrove: Architextual Authenticity in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la Mangrove
- 4 Reflections on Interior Design: Daniel Maximin's L'Île et une nuit
- 5 Literature of Reconstruction: An Architextual Assessment of Post-Earthquake Haiti in Yanick Lahens's Failles and Guillaume et Nathalie
- Conclusion: Reconquering Dimensions: No Place Like Home
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Architextual AuthenticityConstructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean, pp. ix - xPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2017