Fictions of Whiteness: Imagining the Planter Caste in the French Caribbean Novel

by Maeve McCusker

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The Antilles remain a society preoccupied with gradations of skin color and with the social hierarchies that largely reflect, or are determined by, racial identity. Yet francophone postcolonial studies have largely overlooked a key figure in plantation literature: the béké, the white Creole master. A foundational presence in the collective Antillean imaginary, the béké is a reviled character associated both with the trauma...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0813946778

ISBN13:9780813946771

Release Date:November 2021

Publisher:University of Virginia Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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