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Orphan narratives : the postplantation literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse / Valérie Loichot.
Van Pelt Library PS374.S58 L65 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loichot, Valérie, 1968-
- Series:
- New World studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Slavery in literature.
- Plantation life in literature.
- Families in literature.
- Orphans in literature.
- West Indian literature (French)--History and criticism.
- West Indian literature (French).
- Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011. Case du commandeur.
- Glissant, Édouard.
- Saint-John Perse, 1887-1975. Éloges.
- Saint-John Perse.
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Light in August.
- Faulkner, William.
- Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019. Song of Solomon.
- Morrison, Toni.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- In Orphan Narratives, Valerie Loichot investigates the fiction and poetry of four writers who emerged from the postslavery plantation world of the Americas -William Faulkner (USA), Edouard Glissant (Martinique), Toni Morrison (USA), and Saint-John Perse (Guadeloupe)-to show how these descendants of slaves and slaveholders wrote both in relation and in resistance to the violence of plantation slavery. She uses the term "orphan narrative" to capture the ways in which this violence severed the child, the text, and history from a traceable origin. Black or white, male or female, Antillean or American, these writers share a common inheritance and transnational connection through which their texts maintain familial, temporal, and narrative patterns without having any central authority figure.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Narrative orphanage
- A plantation family portrait
- Édouard Glissant's family grammar : La case du commandeur
- Saint-John Perse's shipwrecked plantation : Éloges
- William Faulkner's crossroads : Light in August
- Toni Morrison's postplantation : Song of Solomon
- Conclusion : Postplantation communities.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813926407
- 0813926408
- 9780813926414
- 0813926416
- OCLC:
- 76828687
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