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Migrant Revolutions

Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-06-18
Mått154 x 230 x 19 mm
Vikt390 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAfter the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Antal sidor262
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739116371

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Chapter 1 Introduction: Engaging Creolization and Postcolonial TheoryChapter 2 Chapter 1. Modernism, Migration and the US Occupation in EarlyIndigenismeChapter 3 Chapter 2. The Market in Bodies and Souls: Transnational Labor and the Haitian Revolution in Maurice Casseus'sViejoChapter 4 Chapter 3. Slaves,Viejos and theInternationale: the Marxist novels of Jacques Roumain and Jacques-Stephen AlexisChapter 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 BonesChapter 7 Conclusion

Professor Valerie Kaussen's Migrant Revolutions represents thoroughly researched and well-written scholarship. This book breaks new ground in its analysis of the various and contending forces that have shaped and subtended the production of Haitian literature in the twentieth century. By analyzing a set of key themes, including Haitian revolutionary traditions, labor practices under U.S. occupation, and global migrations of people and capital, she successfully challenges prevailing attitudes of colonialism and slavery, through global ideologies of materialism and capitalist modernity to the role of social movements like noirisme and indigenisme. I am confident that this work will make an important contribution to the fields of Francophone cultural studies and Haitian studies.