Continental Drift (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Russell Banks
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The late 1970’s to the early 1980’s
- Setting: New Hampshire, central and southern Florida, and the Caribbean (including Haiti and the Bahamas)
- Principal Characters: Bob DuBois, Vanise Dorsinville, Avery Boone, Elaine DuBois, Eddie DuBois, Claude Dorsinville
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Racism, American Dream, Poverty or poor people, Immigration or emigration, Good and evil, Success or failure
- Locales: Caribbean, Haiti, Florida, Bahamas, New Hampshire
The Novel
Russell Banks’s Continental Drift recounts the unlikely, intertwined destinies of Bob DuBois, who forsakes his dead-end blue-collar job in New Hampshire to start a new life with his family in Florida, and Vanise Dorsinville, who flees poverty and oppression in Haiti with her infant son and adolescent nephew for the promise of freedom in America.
The novel is divided into eleven alternating sections, preceded by an epic-like “Invocation” and concluding with a summarizing “Envoi,” which contrast the stories of Bob’s and Vanise’s migrations...
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