Revisiting Marie Vieux Chauvet
Author | : Kaiama L. Glover |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780300214192 |
ISBN-13 | : 0300214197 |
Rating | : 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Download or read book Revisiting Marie Vieux Chauvet written by Kaiama L. Glover and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue considers the oeuvre of Haitian writer Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916-1973) as a prism through which to examine individual and collective subject formation in the postcolonial French-writing Caribbean, the wider Afro-Americas, and beyond. While both Vieux-Chauvet and her corpus are situated in the violent space of mid-twentieth century Haiti, her work articulates the obstacles to claiming legitimized human existence on a global scale. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume examine Vieux-Chauvet's positioning within the Haitian public sphere, as well as her broader significance to understanding gendered and racialized postcolonial subjectivities in the twenty-first century.