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From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic

From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic

Chancy, Myriam J. a.

Paperback

Literary CriticismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1554586127
ISBN13: 9781554586127
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
Published: Feb 5 2013
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Sovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary women artists from Haiti--a country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary studies--the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. In From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, Myriam Chancy aims to show that Haiti's exclusion is grounded in its historical role as a site of ontological defiance. Her premise is that writers Edwidge Danticat, Julia Alvarez, Zoé Valdés, Loida Maritza Pérez, Marilyn Bobes, Achy Obejas, Nancy Morejón, and visual artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons attempt to defy fears of otherness by assuming the role of archaeologists of amnesia. They seek to elucidate women's variegated lives within the confining walls of their national identifications--identifications wholly defined as male. They reach beyond the confining limits of national borders to discuss gender, race, sexuality, and class in ways that render possible the linking of all three nations. Nations such as Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba are still locked in battles over self-determination, but, as Chancy demonstrates, women's gendered revisionings may open doors to less exclusionary imaginings of social and political realities for Caribbean people in general.

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