Jean-Claude Charles: A Reader's Guide

by Martin Munro (Editor), Eliana Vagalau (Editor)

Overview

A major figure of Haitian literature, Jean-Claude Charles is an author for now. An introduction to the universe of this capital writer, this volume will accompany readers seeking strikingly original insights on issues such as race, migration, and exile, and the role of the author and literature in times of crisis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781802070132
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2022
Series:	Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures LUP , #85
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Martin Munro is Winthrop-King Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University, and the author of Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas (University of California Press, 2010); Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature: Alexis, Depestre, Ollivier, Laferrière, Danticat (Liverpool University Press, 2007); and editor of Haiti Rising: Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010 (Liverpool University Press, 2010).

Eliana Vagalau is Assistant Professor of French at Loyola University Chicago. Her research on francophone Caribbean literature and contemporary philosophy has appeared in journals such as Francofonia, Sites, and Francophonies d'Amérique. She is associate editor of the literary and art review intranQu'îllités.

Table of Contents

Preface
Rodney Saint-Éloi, Welcome to the Land of Jean-Claude Charles

Editors' Introduction, Martin Munro and Eliana Vagalau

Section One: Contexts
Joëlle Vitiello, Haitian Fugues: Jean-Claude Charles and the Haitian Literary Landscape
Eliana Vagalau, Between Haiti and the World: Jean-Claude Charles' Enracinerrance
Vincent Joos, Writing against Difference: Racism and Confinement in Jean-Claude Charles' Essays

Section Two: Texts and Analyses
Jasmine Claude Narcisse, Noir, Nègre et Négoce(s): Navigating Black Being through the 70s. A reading of Le Corps noir by Jean-Claude Charles"
J. Michael Dash, All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go: Jean-Claude Charles and "l'écriture du reel"
John P. Walsh, Jean-Claude Charles, Chronicler of the "Blues au longs cours"
Bonnie Thomas, Enracinerrance in Jean-Claude Charles' Sainte dérive des cochons and Bamboola Bamboche
Michaël Ferrier, One Man Band: Music and Writing in the Work of Jean-Claude Charles
Stève Puig, America and the Blues in Jean-Claude Charles' Free
Alexis Chauchois and Gilles Glacet, Jean-Claude Charles or writing the poto-mitan
Brigitte Tsobgny, Le Corps Noir: A Scientific Metaphor to Translate the Complexities of Racism
Alba Pessini, Retracing Baskets: A Creative Itinerary
Photo-essay: Patrick Bard, Girls Who Like Jazz Often Break the Heel of a Shoe...

Section Three: Family, Friends, and Peers
Elvire Duvelle-Charles and Cécile Duvelle, Jean-Claude Charles, A Mirror Life
Dany Laferrière, A Style
Thomas Spear, Straight, No Chaser
Edouard Duval-Carrié, From Port-au-Prince to Paris and Miami with Jean-Claude
Martine Fidèle, In search of self and of horizons: Jean-Claude Charles, the anguish of being...
Kettly Mars, Exile, Myths, and Jean-Claude Charles

Editorial Reviews

"This book is a welcome addition to the body of Haitian literary criticism. It occupies a unique place as it is the first and only volume entirely dedicated to the late Haitian writer Jean-Claude Charles."
Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo

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