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

by Maeve McCusker

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"