{"product_id":"signs-of-dissent-dawn-fulton-9780813927145","title":"Signs of Dissent: Maryse Condé and Postcolonial Criticism","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaryse Condé is a Guadeloupean writer and critic whose work has challenged the categories of race, language, gender, and geography that inform contemporary literary and critical debates. In \u003ci\u003eSigns of Dissent, \u003c\/i\u003e the first full-length study in English on Condé, Dawn Fulton situates this award-winning author's work in the context of current theories of cultural identity in order to foreground Condé's unique contributions to these discussions. Staging a dialogue between Condé's novels and the field of postcolonial studies, Fulton argues that Condé enacts a strategy of \"critical incorporations\" in her fiction, imitating and transforming many of the prevailing narratives of postcolonial theory so as to explore their theoretical and conceptual limits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e By rejecting the facile classification of her work as \"Caribbean,\" \"African,\" or \"feminist,\" Condé has gained a reputation as an iconoclast. But Fulton proposes that behind this public image of provocation lies an incisive reflection on the burdens of representation imposed on the non-Western writer, and that Condé's novels expose the ways in which postcolonial criticism can be complicit in constructing such burdens even as it questions them. \u003ci\u003eSigns of Dissent\u003c\/i\u003e offers one of the most comprehensive assessments of Condé's literary production to date, illuminating its exceptional role in shaping a dialogue between francophone studies and the English-dominated field of postcolonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dawn Fulton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813927145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813927145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/04\/2008 pg. 18","brand":"Dawn Fulton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48799435391231,"sku":"9780813927145","price":68.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/signs-of-dissent-dawn-fulton-9780813927145","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}