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Orphan Narratives
Valerie Loichot
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Description for Orphan Narratives
Hardback. Investigates the fiction and poetry of four writers who emerged from the postslavery plantation world of the Americas - William Faulkner, Edouard Glissant, Toni Morrison, and Saint-John Perse - to show how these descendants from slaves and from slaveholders wrote both in relation and in resistance to the violence of plantation slavery. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
In ""Orphan Narratives"", Valerie Loichot investigates the fiction and poetry of four writers who emerged from the postslavery plantation world of the Americas - William Faulkner (USA), Edouard Glissant (Martinique), Toni Morrison (USA), and Saint-John Perse (Guadeloupe) - to show how these descendants from slaves and from slaveholders wrote both in relation and in resistance to the violence of plantation slavery. She uses the term ""orphan narrative"" to capture the ways in which this violence servered the child, the text, and history from a traceable origin. Black or white, male or female, Antillean or American, these writers share a common ... Read more
In ""Orphan Narratives"", Valerie Loichot investigates the fiction and poetry of four writers who emerged from the postslavery plantation world of the Americas - William Faulkner (USA), Edouard Glissant (Martinique), Toni Morrison (USA), and Saint-John Perse (Guadeloupe) - to show how these descendants from slaves and from slaveholders wrote both in relation and in resistance to the violence of plantation slavery. She uses the term ""orphan narrative"" to capture the ways in which this violence servered the child, the text, and history from a traceable origin. Black or white, male or female, Antillean or American, these writers share a common ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
New World Studies
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813926407
SKU
V9780813926407
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About Valerie Loichot
Valerie Loichot is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian at Emory University.
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