Orphan narratives : the postplantation literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse

Author(s)

• Loichot, Valérie

Bibliographic Information

Orphan narratives : the postplantation literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse

Valérie Loichot

（New world studies）

University of Virginia Press, 2007

• : hard
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-239) and index

Contents of Works

• A plantation family portrait
• Édouard Glissant's family grammar : La case du commandeur
• Saint-John Perse's shipwrecked plantation : Éloges
• William Faulkner's crossroads : Light in August
• Toni Morrison's postplantation : Song of Solomon

Details

• NCID: BA82166417
• ISBN:
  • 9780813926407
  • 9780813926414
• LCCN: 2006037586
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Charlottesville
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 244 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS374.S58
  • DC22 : 813/.509355
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Slavery in literature
  • LCSH : Plantation life in literature
  • LCSH : Family in literature
  • LCSH : Orphans in literature
  • LCSH : West Indian literature (French) -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Glissant, Édouard, 1928- Case du commandeur
  • LCSH : Saint-John Perse, 1887-1975. Éloges
  • LCSH : Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Light in August
  • LCSH : Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA22489600