TY - BOOK AU - Ormerod,Beverley TI - An introduction to the French Caribbean novel SN - 0435918397 (pbk.) AV - 110 PQ 3944 O73i 1985 U1 - 843 PY - 1985/// CY - London, Portsmouth, N.H., USA PB - Heinemann KW - Caribbean fiction (French) KW - History and criticism KW - Roman antillais (francais) KW - Histoire et critique KW - Roman francais KW - 20e siecle KW - CEH KW - Colección Estudios Haitianos KW - Fiction in French KW - Caribbean writers, 1945- - Critical studies N1 - Includes index; Bibliography: p. 140-145; Fall and redemption in Jacques Roumain's Masters of the dew -- The freeing of the waters: Edouard Glissant's The ripening -- The plantation as hell: the novels of Joseph Zobel and Micháele Lacrosil -- Paradise redefined: the Marxist vision of Alexis' Comrade General Sun -- The boat and the tree: Simone Schwarz-Bart's The bridge of beyond ER -