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Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature : Alexis, Depestre, Ollivier, Laferriere, Danticat - Martin Munro

Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature

Alexis, Depestre, Ollivier, Laferriere, Danticat

By: Martin Munro

Hardcover | 1 March 2007

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This book provides readers with an excellent introduction to Haitian literature, one of the richest literary traditions in the Americas. Martin Munro focuses on work written after 1946 up to the present, a period in which exile has become the dominant theme in Haitian literature. Using this notion of Haitian writing as a literature of exile, Munro analyzes key novels by the most important figures of each generation of the past sixty years, including Jacques-Stephen Alexis, René Depestre, Émile Ollivier, Dany Laferrière, and Edwidge Danticat.
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The most sophisticated and up-to-date study of contemporary and recent Haitian literature ... theoretical insights are matched by his excellent close readings of the major authors. Munro's book should make a significant contribution to postcolonial theory. It will challenge triumphalist celebrations of displacement and exile that have misread the Caribbean as a congeries of post-modern islands.

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