Exile and post-1946 Haitian literature : Alexis, Depestre, Ollivier, Laferrière, Danticat / [electronic resource]
Munro, Martin,author.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Introduction: Inhabiting Haiti -- 1. Jacques-Stephen Alexis: Janus in Limbo: Urbanization, Exoticism, and Creolization -- 2. René Depestre: Internal Exiles and Exotic Longings -- 3. Émile Ollivier: Passing Through -- 4. Dany Laferrière: Master of the New -- 5. Edwidge Danticat: Home Is Where the Hurt Is -- Conclusion: The Missing People: Theorizing Haitian and Caribbean Exiles.
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.

Haitian literature