Abstract
Valerie Loichot’s Orphan Narratives: The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse explores the ways plantation culture and its powerful reverberations stretch from the Caribbean through the United States South to the Midwest in the writings of four authors imbricated in that culture. Reading elements of what she calls the postplantation as hemispherically widespread, she presents a methodology of approaching this topic that could have a significant impact on framing Caribbean-United States critical discourse.
Highlights
When Édouard Glissant wrote about seeing significant similarities between the Caribbean and the United States South in Faulkner, Mississippi, he was affirming what many scholars of Faulkner and Southern literature had begun to realize
In the last decade there has been a large movement to explore the idea that the United States South occupies a position in between the global South and the global North, creating a somewhat schizophrenic identity, history, and system of values themselves directly related to the legacy of plantation culture
Valérie Loichot’s Orphan Narratives: The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse carries on this investigation by exploring how plantation culture and its powerful reverberations stretch from the Caribbean through the United States South to the Midwest
Summary
Taylor (2014) "Race, Family, and the Plantation Legacy in United States and Caribbean Writers," Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal: Vol 11 : Iss. 1 , Article 6. Valérie Loichot’s Orphan Narratives: The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse carries on this investigation by exploring how plantation culture and its powerful reverberations stretch from the Caribbean through the United States South to the Midwest.
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