The Dancing Other takes readers to France and Martinique to reveal
the struggles of people who belong both places, but never quite
feel at home in either. Suzanne Dracius tells the story of Rehvana,
a woman who feels she is too black to fit in when living in
mainland France, yet at the same time not dark-skinned enough to
feel truly accepted in the Caribbean. Her sense of dislocation
manifests itself at first in a turn to a mythical idea of Mother
Africa; later, she moves to Martinique with a new boyfriend and
thinks she may have finally found her place but instead she is soon
pregnant, isolated, and lonely. Soon her only reliable companion is
her neighbor, Ma Cidalise, who regales her in Creole with
supernatural tales of wizards. Rehvana, meanwhile, watches her
dream of belonging fade, as she continues to refuse to accept her
multicultural heritage.
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