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Gisèle Pineau

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Gisèle Pineau

Gisèle Pineau is a psychiatric nurse and novelist living between Guadeloupe and France. She is considered by many to be one of the canonical writers in the creolité movement in Francophone literature. Her novel L'espérance-macadam, later translated as Macadam Dreams by C. Dickson, is frequently cited as a masterpiece of French-Caribbean literature. Other works by Gisèle Pineau translated into English include The Drifting of Spirits, Exile According to Julia, and (also translated by C. Dickson), Devil's Dance is forthcoming.

Articles by Gisèle Pineau

Carnival Life
By Gisèle Pineau
to Chantal LapicqueGilda had been elected Miss Haute-Terre in 1987. Thirteen years ago already . . . The memory of a glorious one-year reign that she would evoke whenever her present life made anger well…
Translated from French by C. Dickson
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