Reimagining Resistance in Gisele Pineau's Works

Gisèle Pineau's works redefine resistance as related to gender, race, history, and Antillean identity, and this volume explores how they do so. It argues that Pineau's characters challenge our expectations and shift our understanding of what it means to rise and fall in a world we seek to call our own.

Format: Hardback
Length: 226 pages
Publication date: 15 October 2022
Publisher: Lexington Books

Gisèle Pineau, a prominent voice from and about the French Caribbean, has garnered significant scholarly attention, but this attention has resulted in precious few volumes dedicated entirely to her and her work. In response to this lack of in-depth critical attention, Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau's Works brings together a diverse range of perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic and across the Pacific to explore the unique ways in which Gisèle Pineau's works redefine the concept of resistance, particularly as it relates to gender, race, history, and Antillean identity. This volume ultimately demonstrates that resistance holds up a mirror to the political, economic, and cultural forces that have shaped the past, construct the present, and build the future. It argues that Pineau's characters open the narrative frame for reading them and move us beyond the categories of the wholly defiant or the inherently complicit. Above all, as they invite us to reimagine resistance, they expose our expectations and hopefully shift our understanding about what it means to rise and to fall in a world we seek to call our own.

Gisèle Pineau, a prominent voice from and about the French Caribbean, has garnered significant scholarly attention, but this attention has resulted in precious few volumes dedicated entirely to her and her work. In response to this lack of in-depth critical attention, Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau's Works brings together a diverse range of perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic and across the Pacific to explore the unique ways in which Gisèle Pineau's works redefine the concept of resistance, particularly as it relates to gender, race, history, and Antillean identity. This volume ultimately demonstrates that resistance holds up a mirror to the political, economic, and cultural forces that have shaped the past, construct the present, and build the future. It argues that Pineau's characters open the narrative frame for reading them and move us beyond the categories of the wholly defiant or the inherently complicit. Above all, as they invite us to reimagine resistance, they expose our expectations and hopefully shift our understanding about what it means to rise and to fall in a world we seek to call our own.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666910995