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Author_Benedicte Boisseron
Caribbean Culture
Caribbean literature
Caribbean studies
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Creole
creoleness
cultural emancipation
Dany Laferriere
Deviance
Displacement
Edwidge Danticat
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exiled authors
expatriate
Jamaica Kincaid
Maryse Conde
modern diaspora authors
postcolonial archipelago
postcolonial literature
racial emancipation
racial passing
sexual emancipation
V. S. Naipaul
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- ISBN 9780813068794
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2022
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Creole Renegades, Bénédicte Boisseron looks at exiled Caribbean authors—Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, V. S. Naipaul, Maryse Condé, Dany Laferriére, 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-outs, opportunists, or traitors.
These expatriate and second-generation authors refuse to be simple bearers of Caribbean culture, often dramatically distancing themselves from the postcolonial archipelago. Their writing is frequently infused with an enticing sense of cultural, sexual, or racial emancipation, but their deviance is not defiant.
Underscoring the typically ignored contentious relationship between modern diaspora authors and the Caribbean, Boisseron ultimately argues that displacement and creative autonomy are often manifest in guilt and betrayal, central themes that emerge again and again in the work of these writers.
These expatriate and second-generation authors refuse to be simple bearers of Caribbean culture, often dramatically distancing themselves from the postcolonial archipelago. Their writing is frequently infused with an enticing sense of cultural, sexual, or racial emancipation, but their deviance is not defiant.
Underscoring the typically ignored contentious relationship between modern diaspora authors and the Caribbean, Boisseron ultimately argues that displacement and creative autonomy are often manifest in guilt and betrayal, central themes that emerge again and again in the work of these writers.
Bénédicte Boisseron is Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the coeditor of Voix du monde: Nouvelles francophones.
