Du 13 au 15 avril, l'écrivain Raphaël Confiant est l'invité de l'Université de Lehig, en Pensylvanie (USA) où il doit prononcer une conférence en anglais sur le thème: "La littérature dans le monde globalisé: le cas de la littérature francophone de la Caraïbe". Il participera, d'autre part, à un séminaire de doctorants travaillant sur les littératures caribéennes et sud-américaines...
Third MLL International Scholars lecture "Writing in a Globalized World: the French West-Indian Case Study" by Raphaël Confiant, Martiniquan Novelist Wednesday, April 14, at 4:10 pm Linderman Library, Room 200.
Raphaël Confiant is the coauthor of “In Praise of Creoleness” (1989) and the author of some thirty novels written in Creole and French. He is a lecturer in Creole language and culture at the University of the French West Indies and Guiana (UAG), Martinique.
Carribean culture was born within a society founded upon the extermination of the Carib Indians and the enslavement of Africans for the purpose of commercial sugar production. Out of three and a half centuries of confrontation and subjugation emerged a completely new form of culture called "Creole." Because Creole identity has parallels with the current globalization process Caribbean literature is uniquely capable of coping with such questions as multilimultilingualism, multiculturalism or exile.