The infamous Rosalie : Rosalie l'infame / Evelyne Trouillot ; Translated by M. A. Salvodon ; Foreword by Edwidge Danticat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trouillot, Évelyne, 1954-

Standardized Title:

Rosalie l'infame. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Fiction.

Enslaved persons.

French literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lisette, a Saint-Domingue-born Creole slave and daughter of an African-born bossale, has inherited not only the condition of slavery but the traumatic memory of the Middle Passage as well. The stories told to her by her grandmother and godmother, including the horrific voyage aboard the infamous slave ship Rosali e, have become part of her own story, the one she tells in this haunting novel by the acclaimed Haitian writer Évelyne Trouillot. Inspired by the colonial tale of an African midwife who kept a cord of some seventy knots, each one marking a child she had killed at birth, the novel transports us back to Saint-Domingue, before it became Haiti. The year is 1750, and a rash of poisonings is sowing fear among the plantation masters, already unsettled by the unrest caused by Makandal, the legendary Maroon leader. Through this tumultuous time, Lisette struggles to maintain her dignity and to imagine a future for her unborn child. In telling Lisette's story, Trouillot gives the revolution that will soon rock the island a human face and at long last sheds light on the invisible women and men of Haitian history. The original French edition of Rosalie l'infâme received the Prix Soroptimist de la romancière francophone, honoring a novel written by a woman from a French-speaking country which showcases the cultural and literary diversity of the French-speaking world.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Forward

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Afterword.

Notes:

Originally published: Paris : Editions Dapper, 2003.

ISBN:

9781496209344

1496209346

9780803249479

0803249470

OCLC:

855534601