Friends and Enemies The Scribal Politics of Post/Colonial Literature

by Bongie, Chris

• ISBN13: 9781846311437
• ISBN10: 1846311438
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-15
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

This timely contribution to debates about the future of postcolonial theory explores the troubled relationship between politics and the discipline, both in the sense of the radical political changes associated with the anti-colonial struggle and the implication of literary writers in institutional discourses of power. Using Haiti as a key example, Chris Bongie explores issues of commemoration and commodification of the post/colonial by pairing early nineteenth-century Caribbean texts with contemporary works. An apt volume for an age that struggles with the reality of memories of anti-colonial resistance,Friends and Enemiesis a provocative take on postcolonial scholarship.

Author Biography

Chris Bongie is professor and Queen’s National Scholar at the Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature, among other titles.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgment: Entrances	p. vii
Introduction: Literature, Politics, Memory	p. 1
Humanitarian Interventions: The Haitian Revolution in translation, 1793-1833
Incursion I France and Haiti, 1804/2004: Postimperial Melancholy, æNew HumanistÆ Elation	p. 39
æThe Friend of EqualityÆ: Terror and Forgetting in the Novels of jean-:Baptiste Picquenard	p. 69
æThe Cause of HumanityÆ: Victor HugoÆs Bug-Jargal and the Limits of Liberal Translation	p. 107
Between Memory and Nostalgia: Commemorating Post/Colonialism, 1998-2004
Incursion II	p. 147
	p. 153
A Street Named Bissette: Assimilating the Cent-cinquantenaire of the Abolition of Slavery in Martinique (1848-1998)	p. 185
æMonotonies of HistoryÆ: Baron de Vastey and the Mulatto Legend of Derek WalcottÆs Haitian Trilogy	p. 221
Exiles on Main Stream: Browsing the Franco-Caribbean Canon
Incursion III Futures Past? David ScottÆs Black Jacobins and the Dead End of Cultural Politics	p. 257
Withering Heights: Maryse Conde and the Postcolonial Middlebrow	p. 280
Spectres of Glissant: Dealing in Relation	p. 322
Bibliography	p. 371
Index	p. 391
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