Migrant Revolutions

Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism

Valerie Kaussen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

290 Seiten

2007
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-1636-4 (ISBN)

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Migrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism interprets Haitian literature in a transnational context of anti-colonial—and anti-globalization—politics. Positing a materialist and historicized account of Haitian literary modernity, it traces the themes of slavery, labor migration, diaspora, and revolution in works by Jacques Roumain, Marie Chauvet, Edwidge Danticat, and others. Author Valerie Kaussen argues that the sociocultural effects of U.S. imperialism have renewed and expanded the relevance of the universal political ideals that informed Haiti's eighteenth-century slave revolt and war of decolonization. Finally, Migrant Revolutions defines Haitian literary modernity as located at the forefront of the struggles against transnational empire and global colonialism.

Valerie Kaussen is associate professor of French at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Engaging Creolization and Postcolonial Theory Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Modernism, Migration and the US Occupation in EarlyIndigenisme Chapter 3 Chapter 2. The Market in Bodies and Souls: Transnational Labor and the Haitian Revolution in Maurice Casseus'sViejo Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Slaves,Viejos and theInternationale: the Marxist novels of Jacques Roumain and Jacques-Stephen Alexis Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Decolonization, Revolution, and Postmodernity in Marie Chauvet's "Amour" Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Revealing is Healing: The Memory of Collective Politics in Edwidge Danticat'sThe Dew Breaker andThe Farming of Bones Chapter 7 Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.12.2007
Reihe/Serie	After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 241 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7391-1636-3 / 0739116363
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-1636-4 / 9780739116364
Zustand	Neuware