Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xvii, 249 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "This book examines the representation of the white Creole in Antillean literature"--

Series statement

1. New World studies

Uniform title

1. New World studies.

Subject

1. Caribbean fiction (French) > History and criticism
2. White people in literature
3. Creoles in literature
4. Race in literature
5. Plantation owners in literature
6. Plantation life in literature
7. Caribbean fiction (French)
8. Caribbean Area > Race relations > In literature > History and criticism

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. Literary criticism.

Contents

1. "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

1. Sc E 22-768

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. McCusker, Maeve, author.

Title

1. Fictions of Whiteness : imagining the planter caste in the French Caribbean novel / Maeve McCusker.

Publisher

1. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.

Copyright date

1. ©2021

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. New World studies
2. New World studies.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2021023922

ISBN

1. 9780813946771 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
2. 0813946778 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
3. 9780813946788 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
4. 0813946786 (paperback ; acid-free paper)

Research call number

1. Sc E 22-768