Yale French Studies, Number 128 No. 128Revisiting Marie Vieux Chauvet: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Feminine |
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Editor:
| Glover, Kaiama L. Benedicty-Kokken, Alessandra |
Series title: | Yale French Studies Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-300-21419-2 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2016 |
Publisher: | Yale University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $39.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThis 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.