{"id":44565,"date":"2016-04-01T02:37:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T02:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44565"},"modified":"2017-01-02T18:20:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T18:20:30","slug":"creole-renegades-rhetoric-of-betrayal-and-guilt-in-the-caribbean-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44565","title":{"rendered":"Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

University Press of Florida<\/a>
\n2014-06-17
\n240 pages
\n6.125 x 9.256
\nHard Cover ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4979-3<\/p>\n

B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Boisseron<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies
\nUniversity of Montana<\/em><\/p>\n

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In Creole Renegades<\/em>, B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Boisseron looks at exiled Caribbean authors\u2014Edwidge Danticat<\/a>, Jamaica Kincaid<\/a>, V. S. Naipaul<\/a>, Maryse Cond\u00e9<\/a>, Dany Laferri\u00e9re<\/a>, and more\u2014whose works have been well received in their adopted North American countries but who are often viewed by their home islands as sell-outs, opportunists, or traitors.<\/p>\n

These expatriate and second-generation authors refuse to be simple bearers of Caribbean culture, often dramatically distancing themselves from the postcolonial archipelago<\/a>. Their writing is frequently infused with an enticing sense of cultural, sexual, or racial emancipation, but their deviance is not defiant.<\/p>\n

Underscoring the typically ignored contentious relationship between modern diaspora authors and the Caribbean, Boisseron ultimately argues that displacement and creative autonomy are often manifest in guilt and betrayal, central themes that emerge again and again in the work of these writers.<\/p>\n

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