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Author:   Myriam J.A. Chancy
Publisher:   Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Imprint:   Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.330kg
ISBN:  

9781554586127

ISBN 10:   1554586127
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   28 February 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents for From Sugar to Revolution: Womenâs Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic , by Myriam J.A. Chancy Preface The Stories We Cannot Tell Introduction ¿Y donde esta tu abuela? : On the Respective Racial (Mis)Idendifications of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic in the Context of Latin America and the Caribbean PART I SUGAR: Haiti Facing the Mountains: Dominican Suppression and the Haitian Imaginary in the Works of Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat Recovering History âBone by Boneâ: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat PART II SOVEREIGNTY: Cuba Travesía : Crossings of Sovereignty, Sexuality, and Race in the Cuban Female Imaginaries of Zoé Valdés, Nancy Moréjon, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons Recovering Origins: A Conversation with María Magdalena Campos-Pons PART III REVOLUTION: The Dominican Republic Subversive Sexualities: Marilyn Bobes, Achy Obejas, and Loida Maritza Pérez on Revolutionizing Gendered Indentities Against Cuban and Dominican Landscapes The Heart of Home: A Conversation with Loida Maritza Pérez Conclusion Non progredi regredi est : The Making of Transformative Visions Acknowledgements Notes Works Cited Index

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Rich and suggestive, this broad-ranging and original study combines interpretive readings and personal conversations with individual artists. Chancy places women s bodies, voices, memories, and visions at the centre of a careful scrutiny of the way three global axes of power sugar, sovereignty, and revolution have defined and confined Caribbean history, with its traumatic events and lingering painful memories. Conjugating national and transnational approaches to the Creolophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone islands, Chancy redefines our understanding of terror by opening up innovative cultural and scholarly avenues for hopeful new beginnings. This is a transformative intervention in the contemporary realities of the region. - Fran?oise Lionnet, UCLA; Co-editor, The Creolization of Theory

Rich and suggestive, this broad-ranging and original study combines interpretive readings and personal conversations with individual artists. Chancy places women s bodies, voices, memories, and visions at the centre of a careful scrutiny of the way three global axes of power sugar, sovereignty, and revolution have defined and confined Caribbean history, with its traumatic events and lingering painful memories. Conjugating national and transnational approaches to the Creolophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone islands, Chancy redefines our understanding of terror by opening up innovative cultural and scholarly avenues for hopeful new beginnings. This is a transformative intervention in the contemporary realities of the region. --Francoise Lionnet, UCLA; Co-editor, <i>The Creolization of Theory</i>

In this original and provocative study, Myriam Chancy reads the catastrophic history of the Caribbean in the narrative and visual fictions of a number of remarkable women artists, disclosing hitherto uncharted maps of time and voice and remembrance. A work of studied insight, engaged criticism, and graceful sentences, it will alter not only the frames in which Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic are represented, but the very conditions for a gendered and transnational inquiry into the Caribbean present. --David Scott, Columbia University; Editor, Small Axe

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Myriam J.A. Chancy is the author of both non-fiction and fiction, including Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile (1997), which won a Choice OAB Award for 1998, and Spirit of Haiti (2003), shortlisted for Best First Book, Canada/Caribbean region, Commonwealth Prize 2004. The Loneliness of Angels (2010) was shortlisted in the fiction category of the OCM Bocas Prize in Caribbean Literature 2011 and won the 2011 Guyana Prize in Literature Caribbean Award, Best Fiction 2010. Chancy is HBA Chair in the Humanities, Scripps College, and a Guggenheim Fellow.

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