{"product_id":"framing-silence-revolutionary-novels-by-haitian-women-9780813523408","title":"Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women","description":"\u003cp\u003eRaped 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 womens literature  Myriam Chancy finds that Haitian women have their own history  traditions  and stories to tell  tales that they are unwilling to suppress or subordinate to narratives of national autonomy. Issues of race  class  color  caste  nationality  and sexuality are all central to their fiction--as is an urgent sense of the historical place of women between the two U.S. occupations of the country. Their novels interrogate womens social and political stance in Haiti from an explicitly female point of view  forcefully responding to overt sexual and political violence within the nations ambivalent political climate. Through daring and sensitive readings  simultaneously historical  fictional and autobiographical  Chancy explores this literature  seeking to uncover answers to the current crisis facing these women today  both within their country and in exile.The writers surveyed include Anne-christine dAdesky  Ghislaine Rey Charlier  Marie Chauvet  Jan J. Dominique  Nadine Magloire  and Edwidge Danticat  whose work has recently achieved such high acclaim.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666189475893,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813523400","price":41.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813523408.jpg?v=1782422206","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/framing-silence-revolutionary-novels-by-haitian-women-9780813523408","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}