{"product_id":"fictions-of-whiteness-maeve-mccusker-9780813946771","title":"Fictions of Whiteness: Imagining the Planter Caste in the French Caribbean Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 of slavery and with continuing economic dominance, a figure of desire at once fantasized and fetishized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first book-length study to engage with the literary construction of whiteness in the francophone Caribbean, \u003ci\u003eFictions of Whiteness\u003c\/i\u003e examines the neglected béké figure in the longer history of Antillean literature and culture. Maeve McCusker examines representation of the white Creole across two centuries and a range of ideological contexts, from early nineteenth-century békés such as Louis de Maynard and Joseph Levilloux; to canonical twentieth- and twenty-first-century novelists such as ﾉdouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, Rapha? Confiant, and Maryse Condé; extending to lesser-known authors such as Vincent Placoly and Marie-Reine de Jaham, and including entirely obscure writers such as Henri Micaux. These close analyses illuminate the contradictions and paradoxes of white identity in the Caribbean's \u003ci\u003evieilles colonies, \u003c\/i\u003e laboratories in which the colonial mission took shape and that remain haunted by the specter of slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew World Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maeve McCusker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813946778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813946771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2022","brand":"Maeve McCusker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43982095220991,"sku":"9780813946771","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b6f7828f-66cd-4086-a854-c1519b441c84.jpg?v=1683259200","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fictions-of-whiteness-maeve-mccusker-9780813946771","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}