The book analyzes the theme of community in seven French Caribbean novels inrelation to the work of the French philosopher JeanLuc Nancy. The complexhistory of ... » 

The book analyzes the theme of community in seven French Caribbean novels inrelation to the work of the French philosopher JeanLuc Nancy. The complexhistory of the islands means that community is often a central and problematicissue in their literature underlying a range of other questions such a spolitical agency individual and collective subjectivity attitudes towards thepast and the future and even the literary form itself. Critically investigatedworks include Edouard Glissants Le Quatrieme Siecle Patrick ChamoiseausTexaco Daniel Maximins LIle et une nuit and Vincent Placolys Leaudemort guildive among others. «