Creole in Maryse Conde's work: the disordering of the neo-colonial order? From: The Romanic Review | Date: May 1, 2003| Author: Mazama, Ama | COPYRIGHT 2003 Columbia University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In this essay I will address Maryse Conde's perception and definition of Guadeloupean identity through an analysis of her linguistic and sociolinguistic treatment of Guadeloupean Creole in three of her novels, La Vie scelerate (1987), Traversee de la mangrove (1989), and Les derniers Rois mages (1992), as well as through a review of statements made by the author. The above novels were written in the wake of the great nationalist and militant wave of the 1970s and 1980s in Guadeloup...