Looking For Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
(University of Virginia Press, 2022)
Looking for Other Worlds examines Haitian literature from a distinct feminist perspective and, in the process, discovers a revelatory lens through which we can productively read the work of contemporary fiction.

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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