Looking for Other Worlds

Looking for Other Worlds
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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Total Pages : 501
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ISBN-10 : 9780813948461
ISBN-13 : 0813948460
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Book Synopsis Looking for Other Worlds by : Régine Michelle Jean-Charles

Download or read book Looking for Other Worlds written by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would it mean to reorient the study of Haitian literature toward ethics rather than the themes of politics, engagement, disaster, or catastrophe? Looking for Other Worlds engages with this question from a distinct feminist perspective and, in the process, discovers a revelatory lens through which we can productively read the work of contemporary Haitian writers. Régine Michelle Jean-Charles explores the "ethical imagination" of three contemporary Haitian authors—Yanick Lahens, Kettly Mars, and Evelyne Trouillot—contending that ethics and aesthetics operate in relation to each other through the writers’ respective novels and that the turn to ethics has proven essential in the twenty-first century. Jean-Charles presents a useful framework for analyzing contemporary literature that brings together Black feminism, literary ethics, and Haitian studies in a groundbreaking way.

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