Valerie Kaussen

Migrant Revolutions (eBook, ePUB)

Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Migrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism interprets Haitian literature in a transnational context of anti-colonial-and anti-globalization-politics. Positing a materialist and historicized account of Haitian literary modernity, it traces the themes of slavery, labor migration, diaspora, and revolution in works by Jacques Roumain, Marie Chauvet, Edwidge Danticat, and others. Author Valerie Kaussen argues that the sociocultural effects of U.S. imperialism have renewed and expanded the relevance of the universal political ideals that informed Haiti's eighteenth-century slave revolt and war of decolonization. Finally, Migrant Revolutions defines Haitian literary modernity as located at the forefront of the struggles against transnational empire and global colonialism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739130162
• Artikelnr.: 39041110

Autorenporträt

Valerie Kaussen is associate professor of French at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Engaging Creolization and Postcolonial Theory
Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Modernism, Migration and the US Occupation in
EarlyIndigenisme Chapter 3 Chapter 2. The Market in Bodies and Souls:
Transnational Labor and the Haitian Revolution in Maurice Casseus'sViejo
Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Slaves,Viejos and theInternationale: the Marxist
novels of Jacques Roumain and Jacques-Stephen Alexis Chapter 5 Chapter 4.
Decolonization, Revolution, and Postmodernity in Marie Chauvet's "Amour"
Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Revealing is Healing: The Memory of Collective
Politics in Edwidge Danticat'sThe Dew Breaker andThe Farming of Bones
Chapter 7 Conclusion