In "Orphan Narratives, " ValA(c)rie Loichot investigates the fiction and poetry of four writers who emerged from the postslavery plantation world of the Americas -- William Faulkner (USA), Adouard Glissant (Martinique), Toni Morrison (USA), and Saint-John Perse (Guadeloupe) -- to show how these descendants from slaves and from slaveholders wrote both in relation and in resistance to the violence of plantation slavery. She uses the term "orphan narrative" to capture the ways in which this violence severed the child, the text, and history from a traceable origin. Black or white, male or female, Antillean or American, these writers share a common inheritance and transnational connection through which their texts maintain familial, temporal, and narrative patterns without having any central authority figure. The author specifically cites Saint-John Perse's Aloges (1911), Faulkner's "Light in August" (1932), Morrison's S "ong of Solomon" (1977), and Glissant's "La Case du commandeur" (1981) as postslavery texts. Where the actual family is dismembered, these narrative accounts invent new familial links. Reciprocally, biological family ties endure despite the literal and discursive violence inflicted upon them. Breaking new ground in trans-American studies by juxtaposing texts from the francophone Lesser Antilles and the U.S. South, "Orphan Narratives "will be a valuable addition to Caribbean, American, and postcolonial studies, not to mention its appeal to scholars and students of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse.
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