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

• Autore: Boisseron Bénédicte
• Pubblicazione: Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 417/.2209729
• Soggetto topico: Creoles - Caribbean Area; Creole literature - North America; West Indians - Migrations; Ethnicity - Caribbean Area
• Soggetto geografico: Caribbean Area Emigration and immigration
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Creole renegades
• ISBN: 0-8130-5020-0; 0-8130-4891-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816025003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II