“Rich in scope and audacious in its serious imaginative and prescient, Creole Renegades incisively advances debates approximately primary elements of our postcolonial and globalized reports comparable to the enigmas of racial passing, creoleness, and returning and leaving ‘home.’”—Anny Dominique Curtius, writer of Symbiosis of a reminiscence

“An vital e-book that tackles the phenomenon of exiled Caribbean authors from a brand new point of view, underscoring their contentious dating with the house island. Boisseron keeps the paintings of ‘decentering’ Caribbean reports, relocating the locus of study from the Antilles or Europe to North America.”—Richard Watts, writer of Packaging Post/Coloniality

“This insightful strategy illuminates very important shifts in Caribbean literature and allows Boisseron to make new, crucial contributions into the articulation of subjectivities in twenty-first century literary criticism.”—Frieda Ekotto, writer of Race and intercourse around the French Atlantic

Exiled writers usually have super advanced relationships with their local lands. during this quantity, Bénédicte Boisseron examines the works of Caribbean-born writers who, from their new destinations in North the US, query their cultural tasks of Caribbeanness, Creoleness, or even Blackness. She surveys the works of Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, V. S. Naipaul, Maryse Condé, Dany Laferrière, and others who now and then were good obtained of their followed international locations yet who've been pushed aside of their domestic islands as sell-outs, opportunists, or traitors.

These expatriate and second-generation authors refuse to be basic bearers of Caribbean tradition, usually dramatically distancing themselves from the postcolonial archipelago. Their writing is usually infused with an attractive experience of cultural, sexual, or racial emancipation, yet their deviance isn't defiant. as an alternative, their emancipations are these of the nomad, whose real and descriptive travels among issues on a cultural compass support to deconstruct the “sedentary ideology of Caribbeanness” and to reanimate it with new perspectives.

Underscoring the often-ignored contentious courting among sleek diaspora authors and the Caribbean, Boisseron eventually argues that displacement and artistic autonomy are usually happen in guilt and betrayal, important issues that emerge time and again within the paintings of those writers.