Dance on the volcano / Marie Vieux-Chauvet ; translated from the French by Kaiama L. Glover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chauvet, Marie, author.

Contributor:

Glover, Kaiama L., 1972- translator.

Standardized Title:

Danse sur le volcan. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Sisters--Fiction.

Sisters.

Colonies.

Colonies--Fiction.

Race relations--Fiction.

Race relations.

Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804--Fiction.

Haiti.

History.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

History.

Physical Description:

492 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Archipelago Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2016.

Summary:

"Dance on the Volcano tells the story of two sisters growing up during the Haitian Revolution in a culture that swings heavily between decadence and poverty, sensuality and depravity. One sister, because of her singing ability, is able to enter into the white colonial society otherwise generally off limits to people of color. Closely examining a society sagging under the white supremacy of the French colonist rulers, Dance on the Volcano is one of only novels to closely depict the seeds and fruition of the Haitian Revolution, tracking an elaborate hierarchy of skin color and class through the experiences of two young women. It is a story about hatred and fear, love and loss, and the complex tensions between colonizer and colonized, masterfully translated by Kaiama L. Glover"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

First published as La Danse sur le volcan (Paris : Plon, 1957).

ISBN:

9780914671572

091467157X

OCLC:

939994660