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The daughter of Haitian journalist and pro-democracy activist Jean
Leopold Dominique, who was assassinated in 2000, Jan J. Dominique
offers a memoir that provides a uniquely personal perspective on
the tumultuous end of the twentieth century in Haiti. Wandering
Memory is her elegy for a father and an ode to a beloved, suffering
homeland. The book charts the biographical, emotional, and literary
journey of a woman moving from one place to another, attempting to
return to her craft and put together the pieces of her life in the
aftermath of family tragedy. Dominique writes eloquently about
love, loss, and traumas both horrifically specific and tragically
universal. For readers familiar with Jean Dominique and his life's
work at Radio Hai ti, the book offers an intimate perspective on a
tale of mythic proportions. For the reading public at large, it
offers an approachable and resonant introduction to contemporary
Haitian literature, history, and identity.
The Woman of Colour is a unique literary account of a black
heiress' life immediately after the abolition of the British slave
trade. Olivia Fairfield, the biracial heroine and orphaned daughter
of a slaveholder, must travel from Jamaica to England, and as a
condition of her father's will either marry her Caucasian first
cousin or become dependent on his mercenary elder brother and
sister-in-law. As Olivia decides between these two conflicting
possibilities, her letters recount her impressions of Britain and
its inhabitants as only a black woman could record them. She gives
scathing descriptions of London, Bristol, and the British, as well
as progressive critiques of race, racism, and slavery. The
narrative follows her life from the heights of her arranged
marriage to its swift descent into annulment and destitution, only
to culminate in her resurrection as a self-proclaimed "widow" who
flouts the conventional marriage plot. The appendices, which
include contemporary reviews of the novel, historical documents on
race and inheritance in Jamaica, and examples of other women of
colour in early British prose fiction, will further inspire readers
to rethink issues of race, gender, class, and empire from an
African woman's perspective.
The daughter of Haitian journalist and pro-democracy activist Jean
Leopold Dominique, who was assassinated in 2000, Jan J. Dominique
offers a memoir that provides a uniquely personal perspective on
the tumultuous end of the twentieth century in Haiti. Wandering
Memory is her elegy for a father and an ode to a beloved, suffering
homeland. The book charts the biographical, emotional, and literary
journey of a woman moving from one place to another, attempting to
return to her craft and put together the pieces of her life in the
aftermath of family tragedy. Dominique writes eloquently about
love, loss, and traumas both horrifically specific and tragically
universal. For readers familiar with Jean Dominique and his life's
work at Radio Hai ti, the book offers an intimate perspective on a
tale of mythic proportions. For the reading public at large, it
offers an approachable and resonant introduction to contemporary
Haitian literature, history, and identity.
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