Breadfruit or Chestnut?: Gender Construction in the French Caribbean Novel

by Bonnie Thomas

Book Overview

Breadfruit or Chestnut? examines gender construction comparatively across the fiction of contemporary writers of Guadeloupe and Martinique. In particular, it explores the construction of gender identity by six authors-three male and three female-who have never been brought together in a study of this issue.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739115847
• ISBN13: 9780739115848
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 8.9"