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New Book
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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New Book Reviews
In Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction, Dr. Régine Michelle Jean-Charles examines the works of three contemporary Haitian women writers through rigorous scholarly analysis, as well as deeply personal reflections. Contextualizing these works within Haitian history and culture, literary ethics and Black feminism.
Author Edwidge Danticat - American Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and MacArthur Genius Recipient
“Well written and engaging, Looking for Other Worlds is the first study of its kind. It makes an original and substantial contribution to several fields, including Caribbean studies, women’s and gender studies, Africana studies, ethics, and environmental studies.”
Toni Pressley-Sanon - Professor of Africology & African-American Studies
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