Reviews for Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing: C�saire, Glissant, Cond�

The average rating for Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing: C�saire, Glissant, Cond� based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-02-22 00:00:00 Vinny Barbarino I have a very old, several volume series of Masterplots I found myself making reference to from 7th grade through graduate school. It's a really handy series when you need a refresher on the plot of a classic book. Each book has about a two-page summary, with a list of characters and very short critique. As an adult, I still turn to it, often when I am watching movies based on classic literature and I think, "Is that how the book went?" In this digital age, I may finally bring myself to get rid of my set of Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedias, but I'm never discarding the Masterplots.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-08-23 00:00:00 Duncan Knight A delicious, if pedantic, stew of mechanical dolls, lyric poetry, Freud, mesmerism, meteorology, Kant, Duchamp, memetics, etc. Includes irrefutable evidence of poetry's supremacy; I'm memorizing this for cocktail parties: "Poetry dissembles nature, so that nature, disfigured, becomes the body of an invisible ("suprasensible")world. And this invisible material world is truer than the nature depicted by the other, more palpable arts (which produce "mere imitations") precisely because it is unconstrained by nature, because it is produced by a medium, poetry, that does not share the unambiguous physical presence of natural objects."