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.
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.
In Creole Renegades, Bénédicte Boisseron looks at exiled Caribbean authors-Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Maryse Condé, Dany Laferriére, and more-whose works have been well received in their adopted North American countries but who are often viewed by their hom…
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout an…
