Looking for Other Worlds
Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction
RĂ©gine Michelle Jean-Charles
- 408 pages
- English
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Looking for Other Worlds
Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction
RĂ©gine Michelle Jean-Charles
Ă propos de ce livre
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.
RĂ©gine Michelle Jean-Charles explores the "ethical imagination" of three contemporary Haitian authorsâYanick Lahens, Kettly Mars, and Evelyne Trouillotâcontending 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.