"A 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." -
Moira Ferguson, James E. Ryan Chair in English and Women's
Literature, University of Nebraska "A very insightful and
brilliantly executed reading of novels by Haitian women." - Selwyn
Cudjoe, Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas,
Wellesley College "A major new work in Caribbean studies." - Gay
Wilentz, East Carolina University Colonized and coerced, raped 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 stances 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
Charlier, Marie Chauvet, Jan J. Dominique, Nadine Magloire, and
Edwidge Danticat. Myriam J. A. Chancy is a Haitian scholar and
writer born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in Canada. She is
an assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
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