From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic by Chancy, Myriam J. a.

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

Sovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary...
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From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic by Chancy, Myriam J. a.

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

$154.15

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

$154.15
Author: Myriam J. a. Chancy
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Sovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary women artists from Haiti--a country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary studies--the 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 identifications--identifications 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.



Author: Myriam J. a. Chancy
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 02/05/2013
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781554586127

About the Author
Chancy, Myriam J. a.: - 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.

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