Creolizing the Metropole

by Murdoch, H. Adlai

• ISBN13: 9780253001207
• ISBN10: 025300120X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-08
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Creolizing the Metropole is a comparative study of postwar West Indian migration to the former colonial capitals of Paris and London. It studies the effects of this population shift on national and cultural identity and traces the postcolonial Caribbean experience through analyses of the concepts of identity and diaspora. Through close readings of selected literary and film works, H. Adlai Murdoch explores from a variety of perspectives the ways in which these immigrants and their descendants represented their metropolitan identities. Though British immigrants were colonial subjects and, later, residents of British Commonwealth nations, and the French arrivals from the overseas departments were citizens of France by law, both groups became subject to otherness and exclusion stemming from their ethnic differences. Murdoch examines this phenomenon and the questions it raises of borders and boundaries, nationality and belonging.

Author Biography

H. Adlai Murdoch is As sociate Professor of French and Francophone Literature and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is author of Creole Identity in the French Caribbean Novel and the editor (with Anne Donadey) of Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction The Caribbean Diaspora and the Metropoles	p. 3
Caribbean Diasporic Identity Between Home and Away	p. 19
Beyond a Boundary Constructing Anglo-Caribbean and Franco-Antillean Identity	p. 81
Migration Pluralizes the Metropole How a Small Island Revealed Its White Teeth	p. 133
Creolizing the hexagon Periphery and Place in Desirada and Exile According to Julia	p. 207
Playing at Integration Confrontation and Conflict in the Metropolitan Suburbs	p. 283
Conclusion (Re)Colonizing the Metropole	p. 353
Notes	p. 361
Works Cited	p. 365
Index	p. 377
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.