Bénédicte Boisseron

Creole Renegades (eBook, ePUB)

Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Caribbean Philosophical Association Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award



Caribbean Studies Association Barbara T. Christian Literary Award, Honorable Mention







In Creole Renegades, Bénédicte Boisseron looks at exiled Caribbean authorsEdwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, V. S. Naipaul, Maryse Condé, Dany Laferriére, and morewhose 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.





Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813072470
• Artikelnr.: 75640130

Autorenporträt

Bénédicte Boisseron is Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the coeditor of Voix du monde: Nouvelles francophones.