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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790902803321

Autore

Boisseron Bénédicte

Titolo

Creole renegades : rhetoric of betrayal and guilt in the Caribbean diaspora / / Bénédicte Boisseron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8130-5020-0

0-8130-4891-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

417/.2209729

Soggetti

Creoles - Caribbean Area

Creole literature - North America

West Indians - Migrations

Ethnicity - Caribbean Area

Caribbean Area Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.