High School in Guadeloupe. Lycee Fenelon in Paris. Universi

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• Dr. Maryse Conde
• By Massaer Paye

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Maryse Conde

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Who Is Maryse Conde?

• Caribbean writer who retraces aspects of
  stereotypical images of literary characters,
  colonialism, sex, and gender in books, novels,
  poems, conversations.
• Multifaceted career in literature, journalism,
  criticism, and education.

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Educational Experience

• High School in Guadeloupe
• Lycee Fenelon in Paris
• University of Sorbonne in Paris
• Teachers College in Guinea
• Ghana institute of language in Accra
• too much familiarity with a place doesnt allow
  an author to write about it more truthfully but
  only to mythify it
  
• Conde Maryse

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From Africa to the US

• London BBC program producer
• Sorbonne Lecturer
• University of Virginia Lecturer
• University of California Berkeley Lecturer
  Columbia University Professor of French
  Francophone literature
  

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Scholarly fellowship

• Fulbright fellowship at Occidental College, Los
  Angeles
  
• French Academy Prize
• Honorary member of Quebec Academy of Arts
• Rockfeller Foundation Bellagio Writer in Residence

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Introducing Maryse Condes Work

• Linguistic and Cultural Transnationalism
• Exploring European Imperialism into Africa
• Diaspora Cultures
• African Ancestry the Caribbean Dilemma
• Colonial Past of Dispossession
• Composition Identity

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Condes Major Work

• The Two-part historical novel Segou(les murailles
  de la Terre)
  
• Retracing the history of the Traore family in its
  encounter with slave trade, Islam, Christianity,
  and French Colonialism through ethnographical
  notes, genealogies and maps.
• Tituba the Black witch of Salem She is
  re-interpreting stories and cultural events that
  became part of the Western cultural heritage.

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Selected Work

• Caribbean Poetry (1977)
• Journal of a Return to My Native Land Critical
  Analysis (1978)
  
• Woman Talk (1979)
• Beloved Haiti (1987)
• No Woman No Cry (1991)
• The Last of African Kings (1992)

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Drama

• The Death of Oluwemi Dajumako (1973)
• God gave it to us (1972)

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Short Stories

• To My Mom 60 Writers Talk about Their Mothers
  (1988)
  
• The Breadnut and the Breadfruit in Callaloo an
  Afro-American and African Journal of Arts and
  Letters (1989)
  
• Three Women in Manhattan in Presence Africaine
  (1982)
  
• Ayisse Broken Sun, Aime Cesaire 70th anniversary
  (1984)
  

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Anthologies and criticisms

• Guadeloupe texts and Photographies (1988)
• Beyond languages and colors (1985)
• V. S. Naipaul and the Caribbean lands a love
  story (1983)
  
• Francophones and Anglophones revisiting the
  literary boundaries
  
• Negritude and revolution French literary
  expressivism
  
• The female writers in modern Africa
• Mulatto land, in the French Review(May 1987)

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Translations and recordings

• Presenting African and Caribbean writers
• Joseph Nobel radio France Internationale (
  1983)
  
• Hamadou hampate Ba RFI ( 1980)
• Cheickh Hamidou Kane RFI (1979)
• From Columbus to Castro the history of the
  Caribbean ( 1975)
  

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More Updates on Maryse Condes Work

• Contemporary Literary Criticism 52( 1989), p
  78-85
  
• MLA International Bibliography
• Index to Black Periodicals
• Humanities Index
• Book Review Index
• Arts Humanities Index
• Review of the Arts
• Index de la Presse Ecrite Francaise