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Conde: Le Coeur a rire et a pleurer

Suggested Further Reading

 

Books
  • 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.
Book articles
  • 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
Journal articles
Video extract
  • 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:

Condé lecture 1 slides(Powerpoint Presentation)
Condé lecture 1 transcript (Word Document)