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Author McCusker, Maeve, author.

Title Fictions of whiteness : imagining the planter caste in the French Caribbean novel / Maeve McCusker
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource
Series New World Studies
New World studies.
Contents "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
Summary "This book examines the representation of the white Creole in Antillean literature"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Caribbean fiction (French) -- History and criticism
White people in literature
Creoles in literature.
Race in literature.
Plantation owners in literature.
Plantation life in literature.
Plantation owners in literature
Caribbean fiction (French)
Creoles in literature
Plantation life in literature
Race in literature
White people in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021023923
ISBN 9780813946795
0813946794