| Description |
xvi, 245 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
After the empire |
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After the empire.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-235) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction: Engaging Creolization and postcolonial theory -- Modernism, migration, and the U.S. occupation in early Indigénisme -- The market in bodies and souls: transnational labor and the Haitian Revolution in Maurice Casseus's Viejo -- Slaves, Viejos, and the Internationale: the Marxist novels of Jacques Roumain and Jacques-Stephen Alexis -- Decolonization, revolution, and postmodernity in Marie Chauvet's Amour -- Revealing is healing: the memory of collective politics in Edwidge Danticat's The dew breaker and The farming of bones -- Conclusion. |
| Subject |
Haitian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Globalization.
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Haiti -- Relations -- United States.
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United States -- Relations -- Haiti.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Kaussen, Valerie, 1963- Migrant revolutions. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2008 (OCoLC)608406859 |
| ISBN |
9780739116364 cloth alkaline paper |
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0739116363 cloth alkaline paper |
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0739116371 |
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9780739116371 |
| Standard No. |
2561601 |
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