Revisiting Marie Vieux Chauvet: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Feminine

Revisiting Marie Vieux Chauvet: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Feminine
ISBN-10
0300214197
ISBN-13
9780300214192
Category
Foreign Language Study
Pages
168
Language
English
Published
2015-01-01
Publisher
Yale University Press
Authors
Kaiama L. Glover, Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken

Description

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.

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