On the lookout for Different Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction, by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, was printed by College of Virginia Press in November 2022. The writer will ship a chat primarily based on her analysis on the Black Research Colloquium hosted by Columbia College’s English Division on April 11, at 4:00pm. The occasion takes place at 758 Schermerhorn Extension (positioned at 200 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, New York). [Space is limited; reserve at https://forms.gle/LbQYrqCbnV9Acgq76.]
Guide Description: What would it not imply to reorient the research of Haitian literature towards ethics reasonably than the themes of politics, engagement, catastrophe, or disaster? On the lookout for Different Worlds engages with this query from a definite feminist perspective and, within the course of, discovers a revelatory lens by which we will productively learn the work of up to date Haitian writers.
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles explores the “moral creativeness” of three up to date Haitian authors—Yanick Lahens, Kettly Mars, and Evelyne Trouillot—contending that ethics and aesthetics function in relation to one another by the writers’ respective novels and that the flip to ethics has confirmed important within the twenty-first century. Jean-Charles presents a helpful framework for analyzing up to date literature that brings collectively Black feminism, literary ethics, and Haitian research in a groundbreaking manner.
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles is Dean’s Professor of Tradition and Social Justice and Professor of Africana Research and Girls’s, Gender, and Sexuality Research at Northeastern College and the writer of Battle Our bodies: The Politics of Rape Illustration within the Francophone Imaginary.
For extra info, see https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5637/ and https://www.amazon.com/Trying-Different-Worlds-Feminism-Haitian/dp/0813948452/