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Part of the book: Shaping and Reshaping the Caribbean

Martin Munro

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 52

Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract.  The Haiti/Caribbean point in Depestre's work is an immensely complex, divergent, fluid entity. This complexity is born out of the historical and cultural contradictions which characterize the islands, and Haiti in particular: at once a place of 'historylessness' and of glorious revolution; of enslavement and liberty; of pride and shame; of cultural aridity and fecundity; at once the comforting mother and also the despotic 'Papa'; at once the here and now and also the there and then. Depestre's long exile from Haiti only complicates the relationship.

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