Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature: Alexis, Depestre, Ollivier, Laferrière, Danticat

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Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature reinterprets and analyses post-1946 Haitian writing as a literature of exile. It moves between texts that have emerged out of different places and different times, and outlines generational shifts and changes in Haitian exiled writing. The breadth and scope of this book will attract scholars and students with interests in fields such as Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies, francophone studies, migration studies, and African-American studies.

Author(s): Martin Munro
Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures 7
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Year: 2007

Language: English
Pages: 320
City: Liverpool

Acknowledgements | viii
Introduction. Inhabiting Haiti | 1
1 Jacques-Stephen Alexis. Janus in Limbo: Urbanization, Exoticism, and Creolization | 38
2 René Depestre. Internal Exiles and Exotic Longings | 80
3 Émile Ollivier. Passing Through | 141
4 Dany Laferrière. Master of the New | 178
5 Edwidge Danticat. Home Is Where the Hurt Is | 206
Conclusion. The Missing People: Theorizing Haitian and Caribbean Exiles | 249
Notes | 262
Bibliography | 292
Index | 306