Country: |
Martinique |
General Presentation: |
Gerry L’Etang was born on October 19, 1961 in Fort-de-France, Martinique. His is an anthropologist at the University of the Antilles and Guyane and the author and director of several works on the mark made by India in the Caribbean. |
Main works |
L’Inde en nous (1989), Présences de l’Inde dans le monde (1994), La grâce, le sacrifice et l’oracle : De l’Inde à la Martinique, les avatars de l’hindouisme (1999). He has also published several works on aesthetics – L’Inde dans les arts de la Guadeloupe et de la Martinique (2004), La peinture en Martinique (2007) [Grand prix du Livre Insulaire and Grand Prix des Iles du Ponant, 2008] – and on cultural creolisation – Des îles créoles aux sociétés plurielles, Mélanges offerts à Jean Benoist, 2000. In addition to this, he directed a collection of short stories on the wandering phenomenon in Martinique – Drive. L’errance ensorcelée (2009). |