
Looking for Other Worlds
Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction
- 408 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Looking for Other Worlds
Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction
About this book
What would it mean to reorient the study of Haitian literature toward ethics rather than the themes of politics, engagement, disaster, or catastrophe? Looking for Other Worlds engages with this question from a distinct feminist perspective and, in the process, discovers a revelatory lens through which we can productively read the work of contemporary Haitian writers.
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles explores the "ethical imagination" of three contemporary Haitian authors—Yanick Lahens, Kettly Mars, and Evelyne Trouillot—contending that ethics and aesthetics operate in relation to each other through the writers' respective novels and that the turn to ethics has proven essential in the twenty-first century. Jean-Charles presents a useful framework for analyzing contemporary literature that brings together Black feminism, literary ethics, and Haitian studies in a groundbreaking way.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Art of Haitian Feminism
- 1. Haitian Women’s Studies, Black Feminism, and Literary Ethics
- 2. Gran moun se moun: Aging and Intersectionality
- 3. The Ethical-Erotic: Sex and Intimacy
- 4. Geographies of Class Location: Class and Space
- 5. An Environmental Ethic: Land and Sea
- Coda: A More Just and More Beautiful World
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index