Myriam J. A. Chancy

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Framing Silence

Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women

Rutgers University Press

In this first book-length study in English devoted exclusively to Haitian women's literature, Myriam Chancy finds that Haitian women have their own history, traditions, and stories to tell, tales that they are unwilling to suppress or subordinate to narratives of national autonomy. Issues of race, class, color, caste, nationality, and sexuality are all central to their fiction--as is an urgent sense of the historical place of women between the two U.S. occupations of the country. Their novels interrogate women's social and political stance in Haiti from an explicitly female point of view, forcefully responding to overt sexual and political violence within the nation's ambivalent political climate. 

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Cruel Destiny and The White Negress

Two Novels by Cléante Desgraves Valcin

Rutgers University Press

Cruel Destiny (Cruelle Destinée) and The White Negress (La Blanche Négresse) are the first and second novels published by a Haitian woman, Cléante ValcinTranslated to English now for the first time by Jeanne Jégousso, these novels offer an incisive perspective on the fate, romance, and reversals of characters in Haiti, the Pearl of the Antilles, during the 1920s and 1930s.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Harvesting Haiti

Reflections on Unnatural Disasters

University of Texas Press

This collection ponders the personal and political implications for Haitians at home and abroad resulting from the devastating 2010 earthquake.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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