Migrant Revolutions
Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism
Seiten
2008
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-1637-1 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-1637-1 (ISBN)
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 | 18.6.2008 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 390 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7391-1637-1 / 0739116371 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7391-1637-1 / 9780739116371 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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