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Migrant Revolutions
Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism
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2007
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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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Edition
1/2007
Copyright Year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1636-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3016-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
245
Product Type
Monograph
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Table of Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
Introduction: Engaging Creolization and Postcolonial Theory No access Pages 1 - 26
1. Modernism, Migration, and the U.S. Occupation in Early Indigénisme No access Pages 27 - 66
2. The Market in Bodies and Souls: Transnational Labor and the Haitian Revolution in Maurice Casseus's Viejo No access Pages 67 - 100
3. Slaves, Viejos, and the Internationale: The Marxist Novels of Jacques Roumain and Jacques-Stephen Alexis No access Pages 101 - 146
4. Decolonization, Revolution, and Postmodemity in Marie Chauvet's Amour No access Pages 147 - 184
5. Revealing Is Healing: The Memory of Collective Politics in Edwidge Danticat's the Dew Breaker and the Farming of Bones No access Pages 185 - 220
