Signs of Dissent - 9780813927152

Signs of DissentMaryse Conde and Postcolonial Criticism\nAuthor(s): Dawn Fulton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Virginia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Virginia Press\nISBN-13: 9780813927152, 978-0813927152\nSynopsis\nMaryse Conde is a Guadeloupean writer and critic whose work has challenged the categories of race, language, gender, and geography that inform contemporary literary and critical debates. In \""\""Signs of Dissent\""\"", the first full-length study in English on Conde, Dawn Fulton situates this award-winning author's work in the context of current theories of cultural identity in order to foreground Conde's unique contributions to these discussions. Staging a dialogue between Conde's novels and the field of postcolonial studies, Fulton argues that Conde enacts a strategy of \""\""critical incorporations\""\"" in her fiction, imitating and transforming many of the prevailing narratives of postcolonial theory so as to explore their theoretical and concep.