I Am Alive (Je suis vivant) is celebrated Haitian author Kettly Mars?s latest novel, telling the story of a bourgeois Caribbean family as it wrestles with issues of mental illness, unconventional sexuality,...
Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being
by Kaiama L. Glover
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CA$18.48CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781478011248
Pub Date: January 2021
Imprint: Duke University Press
Kaiama L. Glover examines Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean literature whose female protagonists enact practices of freedom that privilege the self, challenge the prioritization of the community over the individual, and refuse masculinist discourses of postcolonial nation building.
Françoise Vergès examines the scandal of white doctors forcefully terminating the pregnancies of thousands of poor women of color on the French island of Réunion during the 1960s, showing how they resulted from the legacies of the racialized violence of slavery and colonialism.
Edited by Laurent Dubois, Kaiama L. Glover, Nadève Ménard, Millery Polyné, and Chantalle F. Verna
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CA$20.48CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781478006770
Pub Date: January 2020
Imprint: Duke University Press
Spanning the centuries between pre-contact indigenous Haiti to the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, the selections in The Haiti Reader introduce readers to Haiti's dynamic history and culture from the viewpoint of Haitians from all walks of life.
The latest novel by one of Haiti's most brilliant writers The most recent book by renowned Haitian novelist, essayist, and poet René Depestre, Popa Singer is a semi-autobiographical chronicle of Haiti...
