Includes bibliographical references (pages 223 - 239) and index.
Contents:
"A certain uncertain writing" : anxiety and ambivalence in Traversay's Les amours de Zémédare et Carina et description de l'île de la Martinique -- Unsettling the pigmentocracy : Levilloux's Les créoles and Maynard's Outre-mer -- Sympathy for the béké? : Glissant and Chamoiseau -- Empathy and estrangement : Vincent Placoly's Frères volcans -- "Here, it's black or white" : Marie-Reine de Jaham's La grande béké and the unbearable whiteness of being -- Killing the béké : crime, fiction, and white death.
Summary:
"This book examines the representation of the white Creole in Antillean literature"-- Provided by publisher
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