From sugar to revolution : women's visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic / Myriam J.A. Chancy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chancy, Myriam J. A., 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuban literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Cuban literature.

Dominican literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Dominican literature.

Haitian literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Haitian literature.

Women and literature--Caribbean Area.

Women and literature.

Women artists--Caribbean Area.

Women artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

From Sugar to Revolution

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2012 (Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012).

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

The Stories We Cannot Tell

¿Y donde esta tu abuela?: On the Respective Racial (Mis)Identifications of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic in the Context of Latin America and the Caribbean

SUGAR Haiti

Facing The Mountains

Recovering History “Bone by Bone”

Sovereignty Cuba

TravesÍA

Recovering Origins

Revolution The Dominican Republic

Subversive Sexualities

The Heart of Home

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613863065

9781554582730

1554582733

9781283550611

128355061X

9781554584291

1554584299

OCLC:

751635640