Michèle Lacrosil

Dawn Fulton (Smith College)

Ed. by Maeve McCusker, Queen's University Belfast
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.2: Francophone Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Maeve McCusker (Queen's University Belfast), David Murphy (University of Strathclyde)

Dates

Born 21 Feb 1911
Died 18 Dec 2012
Activity 1946-1967

Places

Born in Guadeloupe
Active in France; Guadeloupe

Cultural Identities

Caribbean/ Antillean French

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Resources

Lacrosil's Works

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Although born two years before Aimé Césaire, Michèle Lacrosil gained recognition as a writer in the 1960s, placing her in a generation of black Francophone writers publishing after the initial rise of the Négritude movement in the 1930s and 1940s. One of only a few women in that group (along with Marie Vieux Chauvet, Françoise Ega, and Marie-Magdeleine Carbet), Lacrosil initially garnered a positive reception for her work, but, after disparaging responses to her later novels, faded quickly into near obscurity. While critics abroad and especially in the U.S. have embraced the trenchant critiques of race, gender, and class relations offered by Lacrosil’s incisive eye, she remains after her death in 2012 one of the most understudied writers of her time.

Born February 21, 1911, in

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Citation: Fulton, Dawn. "Michèle Lacrosil". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 June 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13950, accessed 22 November 2024.]