Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women

by Myriam J.A. Chancy

Book Overview

Raped and colonized, coerced and silenced--this has been the position of Haitian women within their own society, as well as how they have been seen by foreign occupiers. Romanticized symbols of nationhood, they have served, however unwillingly, as a politicized site of contestation between opposing forces.

In this first book-length study in English devoted exclusively to Haitian women's literature, Myriam Chancy finds that Haitian women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813523400
• ISBN13: 9780813523408
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"