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Fictions of Whiteness : imagining the planter caste in the French Caribbean novel
- Title
- Fictions of Whiteness : imagining the planter caste in the French Caribbean novel / Maeve McCusker.
- Author
- McCusker, Maeve
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 249 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This book examines the representation of the white Creole in Antillean literature"--
- Series Statement
- New World studies
- Uniform Title
- New World studies.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Literary criticism.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-768
- ISBN
- 9780813946771
- 0813946778
- 9780813946788
- 0813946786
- LCCN
- 2021023922
- OCLC
- 1245579211
- Author
- McCusker, Maeve, author.
- Title
- Fictions of Whiteness : imagining the planter caste in the French Caribbean novel / Maeve McCusker.
- Publisher
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New World studiesNew World studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-768