Preface: A Note about Race
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "A Certain Uncertain Writing": Anxiety and Ambivalence in Traversay’s Les amours de Zémédare et Carina et description de l’île de la Martinique
2. Unsettling the Pigmentocracy: Levilloux’s Les créoles and Maynard’s Outre-mer
3. Sympathy for the Béké?: Glissant and Chamoiseau
4. Empathy and Estrangement: Vincent Placoly’s Frères volcans
5. "Here, It’s Black or White": Marie-Reine de Jaham’s La grande béké and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being
6. Killing the Béké: Crime, Fiction, and White Death
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index