ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book begins with reflection on the complex sets of relationships that Maryse Conde's work establishes to notions of space, literature, identity and politics. It addresses the current critical debate in the field of Francophone Postcolonial Studies surrounding the relationship between various forms of political action or 'resistance' and literature. Conde's texts undertake open-ended readings of various French, Francophone and Anglophone literary traditions in ways that also point to the creative incorporation and transformation of these traditions by her work. The book discusses the possibilities presented by globalization for developing an extended conception of Francophone Caribbean identity is a key preoccupation of Conde's work. It also discusses the possibilities for re-imagining explored within Conde's work as a form of heuristic engagement based on confronting her own experiences with the Utopian visions of metropolitan French and Francophone Caribbean works.
