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Author:
McCusker, Maeve, author.
Title:
Fictions of Whiteness : imagining the planter caste in the French Caribbean novel / Maeve McCusker.
Publisher:
University of Virginia Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xvii, 249 pages ; 23 cm
Subject:
Caribbean fiction (French)--History and criticism.
White people in literature.
Creoles in literature.
Race in literature.
Plantation owners in literature.
Plantation life in literature.
Plantation owners in literature.
Caribbean fiction (French)
Creoles in literature.
Plantation life in literature.
Race in literature.
White people in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Notes:
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
Series:
New World studies
ISBN:
0813946786
9780813946788
0813946778
9780813946771
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1245579211
LCCN:
2021023922
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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