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Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean

This monograph examines a particularly extensive and complex concept. In analysing the significance of a neglected genre – the récit d’enfance – the researcher demonstrates it is used in “as much a politically as an aesthetically subversive manner” resulting in a “detailed, meticulous and informed study” which “makes a major contribution” (Dash). This testifies to the extensive breadth and depth of research into a raft of individual authors and the wider Caribbean context (including its diaspora). Collection and analysis of material required 8 years, including month-long Caribbean fieldwork, analysis of rare sources, original author interviews and multiple international conference papers.