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Migrant Revolutions


Migrant Revolutions

Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism
After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France, Band 114

von: Valerie Kaussen

48,99 €

Verlag: Lexington Books
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 24.12.2007
ISBN/EAN: 9780739130162
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 262

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<span><span>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.</span></span>
<span><span>Migrant Revolution offers an overview of twentieth-century Haitian literature, placing its rich tradition in the context of transnational anti-colonial politics. Kaussen argues that the anti-colonial politics of Haitian modernist literature is based on the philosophies of human rights that drove the Haitian Revolution and, further, that Haitian literary modernity has continually challenged the world colonial order, including the contemporary era of globalization.</span></span>
<span><span>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</span></span>
<span><span>Valerie Kaussen is associate professor of French at the University of Missouri-Columbia.</span></span>

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