Conde: Le Coeur a rire et a pleurer

Derek O'Regan, Postcolonial Echoes and Evocations: the Intertextual Appeal of Maryse Condé (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006)
Françoise Pfaff, Conversations with Maryse Condé (Lincoln, Nebraska: Uni of Nebraska Press, 1996)
Sam Haigh, ed., Introduction to Francophone Caribbean Writing (Oxford: Berg, 1999). This has a very useful general introduction. This is now available to consult on the library's FR 118 course extracts page.

Suzanne Crosta, ‘Poétiques de relation et globalisation dans la Caraïbe francophone’, in Kathleen Gyssels et al, eds., Convergences and Interferences (Rodopi, 2001).
Leah D. Hewitt, ‘Transmigrations in Maryse Condé’s True Tales’, in Michael Bishop & Christopher Elson, eds., French Prose in 2000 (Rodopi, 2002).
Leah Hewitt, ‘Vérités des fictions autobiographiques’, in Cottenet-Hage, Madeleine, Moudileno, Lydie, eds., Maryse Condé: Une Nomade inconvenante (Ibis Rouge, 2002), 163-168. This is now avaiable to consult on the library's FR118 course extracts page.
Erica L Johnson, 'Departures and Arrivals: Home in Maryse Condé's Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer’, in Natalie Edwards and Christopher Hogarth, Gender and Displacement: 'Home' in Contemporary Francophone Women's Autobiography (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publications, 2008).This is now avaiable to consult on the library's FR118 course extracts page.
Nick Nesbitt, ‘Le Sujet de l'histoire: Mémoires troublées dans Traversée de la mangrove et Le cœur à rire et à pleurer’ in Cottenet-Hage, Madeleine, Moudileno, Lydie, eds., Maryse Condé: Une Nomade inconvenante (Ibis Rouge, 2002), 113-119
Mireille Rosello, ‘Le Petit Cornac des mots d'amour: Tragi-comédie en un adjective’ , in Cottenet-Hage, Madeleine, Moudileno, Lydie, eds., Maryse Condé: Une Nomade inconvenante (Ibis Rouge, 2002), 169-173
Françoise Vergès, ‘Labyrinthes’,in Maryse Condé: Une Nomade inconvenante, 185-190

Maria M Kilngele, 'Voice and Resistance in Maryse Condé's Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer: Dynamics of Race, Gender, and Écriture Féminine', (2013). Honors Projects. Paper 7. http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=french_honproj
Dominique Lycops, ‘Reading and Danger: The Emerging Writer in Maryse Condé's and Gisèle Pineau's Autofiction’, Women in French Studies (2012), 248-264.
Anne Malena, 'Playing with Genre in Condé's autofiction', Journal of West Indian Literature 12, Vol. 1/2 (2004), 154-69. Available electronically via library here: http://0-lion.chadwyck.co.uk.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/searchFulltext.do?id=R03932652&divLevel=0&area=abell&forward=critref_ft
Bonnie Thomas, ‘Maryse Condé: Practitioner of Littérature-monde', Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 33 (2010 Nov): 78-88. Available electronically via library here: http://0-muse.jhu.edu.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/journals/small_axe/v014/14.3.thomas.html

Here is an interesting round table discussion on memory in which Maryse Condé takes part. Her reflections on Le Coeur and her relationship with Guadeloupe are worth hearing:
And here is a documentary where Condé talks about her life and work:

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