Analyses schooling and the ethnoclass hierarchy, and examines the relations between ethnicity and social class in the Caribbean. Focuses particularly on the scene of recognition in Confiant.
Confronting the promises and impasses of the concept of Créolité in two novels by the Martinican writer Raphaël Confiant (1951-), Le Nègre et l’Amiral (1988) and L’Hôtel du Bon Plaisir