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About this book
Camille has worked her way up from the Guadeluopean lakou where she was born and raised to the heights of Orlando, where she is a successful motivational speaker. Her assistant, Evelyn, is struggling as a single mother, especially since she has been keeping the existence of her son a secret from her family in Jamaica. As Camille relates the story of her life to Evelyn, she urges Evelyn to see her difficult life as one of great fortune—"My girl, a woman falls, but she never despairs"—and to fully share her joys and successes with her loved ones.
Camille's Lakou tells the story of Camille, a young Caribbean girl living with her single?parent mother in a 1960s urbanized zone at the edge of Pointe?à?Pitre, Guadeloupe, following her through her adult life as a Caribbean migrant in Florida. Author Marie Léticée explores neocolonial culture clash and identity conflict themes that will be familiar to readers of the Francophone Caribbean coming?of?age novel and its revisions by women writers such as Capécia, Lacrosil, Manicom, Schwarz?Bart, Condé, Pineau, and others. Léticée makes it her own by fleshing out a time and place not well?represented in Guadeloupean literature. While previous bildungsromane from the writers mentioned here typically focus on rural peasant or urban bourgeois settings, Camille's Lakou shifts location to an impoverished urban environment. "Lakou" is translated as "courtyard" or, more colloquially, "yard." The author explores the culture and politics of lakou society while raising the issue of how this social dynamic is transformed through the impact of globalization and dispersal into a diasporic experience outside the island milieu of Camille's childhood.
In a collaborative translation effort between the author and Kevin Meehan, Camille's Lakou will bring the realities and joys of Léticée's Guadeloupe to an English audience for the first time.
Camille's Lakou tells the story of Camille, a young Caribbean girl living with her single?parent mother in a 1960s urbanized zone at the edge of Pointe?à?Pitre, Guadeloupe, following her through her adult life as a Caribbean migrant in Florida. Author Marie Léticée explores neocolonial culture clash and identity conflict themes that will be familiar to readers of the Francophone Caribbean coming?of?age novel and its revisions by women writers such as Capécia, Lacrosil, Manicom, Schwarz?Bart, Condé, Pineau, and others. Léticée makes it her own by fleshing out a time and place not well?represented in Guadeloupean literature. While previous bildungsromane from the writers mentioned here typically focus on rural peasant or urban bourgeois settings, Camille's Lakou shifts location to an impoverished urban environment. "Lakou" is translated as "courtyard" or, more colloquially, "yard." The author explores the culture and politics of lakou society while raising the issue of how this social dynamic is transformed through the impact of globalization and dispersal into a diasporic experience outside the island milieu of Camille's childhood.
In a collaborative translation effort between the author and Kevin Meehan, Camille's Lakou will bring the realities and joys of Léticée's Guadeloupe to an English audience for the first time.
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Publisher
Vanderbilt University PressYear
2025Print ISBN
9780826507679, 9780826507686eBook ISBN
9780826507709Table of contents
- Contents
- Translator’s Preface
- Part 1. Manor’s Alley
- Part 2. Monbruno Court
- Conclusion. Manor’s Alley