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PublisherRutgers University Press
ISBN-100813523400
ISBN-139780813523408
eBay Product ID (ePID)546495
Product Key Features
Number of Pages218 Pages
Publication NameFraming Silence : Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
SubjectCaribbean & Latin American, Women Authors, General
TypeTextbook
AuthorMyriam J. A. Chancy
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight11.1 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN96-002697
ReviewsA riveting, insightful personal narrative, a confessional that is very thoroughly researched. It will open windows on the rich, complex culture of Haiti, both historical and contemporary.
Dewey Decimal843
Table Of ContentIntroduction: parol gin pie zel Nou la!: Haitian feminism as the crossroads politics of theory and action Ayiti ce te glisse: The U.S. occupation of Haiti and the emergence of Haitian women's literary voices Si-m di ou, oua konn pase-m: Ghislaine Charlier and Jan J. Dominique frame the unmasterable, memoried past Lespoua fe viv: female identity and the politics of textual sexuality in Nadine Magloire's "Le mal de vivre" and Edwidge Danticat's "Breath, eyes, memory" Male pa gin klaksonn: the politics of culturelacune in the works of Marie Chauvet and Anne-christine d'Adesky Conclusion: jou va, jou vien-m'pa di passca
SynopsisRaped and colonized, coerced and silenced--this has been the position of Haitian women within their own society, as well as how they have been seen by foreign occupiers. Romanticized symbols of nationhood, they have served, however unwillingly, as a politicized site of contestation between opposing forces. 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. Through daring and sensitive readings, simultaneously historical, fictional and autobiographical, Chancy explores this literature, seeking to uncover answers to the current crisis facing these women today, both within their country and in exile.The writers surveyed include Anne-christine d'Adesky, Ghislaine Rey Charlier, Marie Chauvet, Jan J. Dominique, Nadine Magloire, and Edwidge Danticat, whose work has recently achieved such high acclaim., 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.
LC Classification NumberPQ3944
