From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic - Couverture rigide

Chancy, Myriam J.A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1554584280 ISBN 13 : 9781554584284

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Sovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary women artists from Haitiâa country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary studiesâthe Dominican Republic, and Cuba. In From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic , Myriam Chancy aims to show that Haiti's exclusion is grounded in its historical role as a site of ontological defiance. Her premise is that writers Edwidge Danticat, Julia Alvarez, Zoé Valdés, Loida Maritza Pérez, Marilyn Bobes, Achy Obejas, Nancy Morejón, and visual artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons attempt to defy fears of "otherness" by assuming the role of "archaeologists of amnesia." They seek to elucidate women's variegated lives within the confining walls of their national identificationsâidentifications wholly defined as male. They reach beyond the confining limits of national borders to discuss gender, race, sexuality, and class in ways that render possible the linking of all three nations. Nations such as Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba are still locked in battles over self-determination, but, as Chancy demonstrates, women's gendered revisionings may open doors to less exclusionary imaginings of social and political realities for Caribbean people in general.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Myriam J.A. Chancy is the author of both non-fiction and fiction, including Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile (1997), which won a Choice OAB Award for 1998, and Spirit of Haiti (2003), shortlisted for Best First Book, Canada/Caribbean region, Commonwealth Prize 2004. The Loneliness of Angels (2010) was shortlisted in the fiction category of the OCM Bocas Prize in Caribbean Literature 2011 and won the 2011 Guyana Prize in Literature Caribbean Award, Best Fiction 2010. Chancy is HBA Chair in the Humanities, Scripps College, and a Guggenheim Fellow.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1554584280
• ISBN 13: 9781554584284
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 392
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible