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Creole renegades : rhetoric of betrayal and guilt in the Caribbean diaspora / Bénédicte Boisseron.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boisseron, Bénédicte, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creoles--Caribbean Area.
- Creoles.
- Creole literature--North America.
- Creole literature.
- West Indians--Migrations.
- West Indians.
- Ethnicity--Caribbean Area.
- Ethnicity.
- Caribbean Area--Emigration and immigration.
- Caribbean Area.
- Broyard, Anatole.
- Condé, Maryse.
- Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-.
- Danticat, Edwidge.
- Laferrière, Dany.
- Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018.
- Naipaul, V. S.
- Kincaid, Jamaica.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book investigates the exilic literature of Caribbean-born and Caribbean-descent writers who, from their new location in Northern America, question their cultural roots and search for a creative autonomy.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The second-generation Caribbean diaspora
- Anatole Broyard: Racial betrayal and the art of being Creole
- Maryse Conde's Histoire de la femme cannibale: coming out in the French Antilles
- Edwidge Danticat and Dany LaFerriere: Parasitic and remittance diaspora
- V. S. Naipaul and Jamaica Kincaid: Rhetoric of national dis-allegiance
- Creole versus Bossale Renegade: "Turfism" in the black diaspora of the Americas.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-5020-0
- 0-8130-4891-5
- OCLC:
- 880059543
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