Abstract
In response to Jean Bernabe, Patrick Chamoiseau, Raphael Confiant, and Mohammed B. Taleb Khyar’s conception of cross-cultural poetics in their essay “In Praise of Creoleness,” Maryse Condé stresses that although there is a crisis in Caribbean literature, it should not be attributed to the causes denounced by these male authors.¹ For Condé the problem is rooted in the literary order that has been established throughout the history of Caribbean literature by various generations of writers. Condé explains:
The new order didn’t affect only poetry. It also affected history, sociology, and philosophy. West Indian society was not studied per se, as
