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Creole Renegades : Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora /

In Creole Renegades, Benedicte Boisseron looks at exiled Caribbean authors-Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Maryse Conde, Dany Laferriere, 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-out...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boisseron, Benedicte
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Translations; Introduction: The Second-Generation Caribbean Diaspora; 1. Anatole Broyard: Racial Betrayal and the Art of Being Creole; 2. Maryse Conde's Histoire de la femme cannibale: Coming Out in the French Antilles; 3. Edwidge Danticat and Dany Laferriere: 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