Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean DiasporaPosted in Books, Caribbean/Latin America, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, Monographs, Passing on 2016-04-01 02:37Z by Steven |
Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora
University Press of Florida
2014-06-17
240 pages
6.125 x 9.256
Hard Cover ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4979-3
Bénédicte Boisseron, Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies
University of Montana
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 home islands as sell-outs, opportunists, or traitors.
These expatriate and second-generation authors refuse to be simple bearers of Caribbean culture, often dramatically distancing themselves from the postcolonial archipelago. Their writing is frequently infused with an enticing sense of cultural, sexual, or racial emancipation, but their deviance is not defiant.
Underscoring the typically ignored contentious relationship between modern diaspora authors and the Caribbean, Boisseron ultimately argues that displacement and creative autonomy are often manifest in guilt and betrayal, central themes that emerge again and again in the work of these writers.
Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translations
- Introduction: The Second-Generation Caribbean Diaspora
- 1. Anatole Broyard: Racial Betrayal and the Art of Being Creole
- 2. Maryse Condé’s Histoire de la femme cannibale: Coming Out in the French Antilles
- 3. Edwidge Danticat and Dany Laferrière: Parasitic and Remittance Diaspora
- 4. V. S. Naipaul and Jamaica Kincaid: Rhetoric of National Dis-Allegiance
- 5. Creole versus Bossale Renegade: “Turfism” in the Black Diaspora of the Americas
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index