At the turn of the millennium, the Martinican novelist Edouard Glissant offered the bold prediction that ""Faulkner's oeuvre will be made complete when it is revisited and made vital by African Americans,"" a goal that ""will be achieved by a radically 'other' reading."" In the spirit of Glissant's prediction, this collection places William ......
Francophone Caribbean Writers Interrogating Their Past
The Francophone Caribbean boasts a trove of literary gems. Distinguished by innovative, elegant writing and thought-provoking questions of history and identity, this exciting body of work demands scholarly attention. Its authors treat the traumatic legacies of shared and personal histories pervading Caribbean experience in striking ways, ......
Stella, first published in 1859, is an imaginative retelling of Haiti's fight for independence from slavery and French colonialism. Set during the years of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), Stella tells the story of two brothers, Romulus and Remus, who help transform their homeland from the French colony of Saint-Domingue to the independent ......
AfroLatinx Feminist Epistemologies of Tranceformation
How AfroLatinx artists transform the body into an archive of resistance through a decolonial ciguapa aesthetic In Ciguapa Unbound, Omaris Z. Zamora reimagines the Dominican myth of La Cigueapa to explore the untold stories of Black Dominican women. Traditionally depicted as an elusive spirit with backward-facing feet who haunts rural landscapes ......
AfroLatinx Feminist Epistemologies of Tranceformation
How AfroLatinx artists transform the body into an archive of resistance through a decolonial ciguapa aesthetic In Ciguapa Unbound, Omaris Z. Zamora reimagines the Dominican myth of La Cigueapa to explore the untold stories of Black Dominican women. Traditionally depicted as an elusive spirit with backward-facing feet who haunts rural landscapes ......
Contemporary dance in Haiti challenges global stereotypes of its people, their country, and their worldmaking. Mario LaMothe profiles four celebrated Haitian choreographers to examine the influences that nurtured the generative and transgressive dance practices found today in the Caribbean nation. LaMothe weaves Vodou teaching practices with ......
Contemporary dance in Haiti challenges global stereotypes of its people, their country, and their worldmaking. Mario LaMothe profiles four celebrated Haitian choreographers to examine the influences that nurtured the generative and transgressive dance practices found today in the Caribbean nation. LaMothe weaves Vodou teaching practices with ......
The Good Road situates Guatemala's early 1980s Indigenous uprising and the genocide that crushed it in a five-hundred-year history of Indigenous resistance to colonization and exploitation. Drawing on decades of archival and ethnographic research, Carlota McAllister traces the emergence of conciencia, a Spanish word meaning both consciousness and ......