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Dance on the Volcano
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Pub Date
Jan 10 2017
| Archive Date
Nov 01 2016
Description
Dance on the Volcano tells the story of two sisters growing up during the Haitian Revolution in a culture that swings heavily between decadence and poverty, sensuality and depravity. One sister, because of her singing ability, is able to enter into the white colonial society otherwise generally off limits to people of color. Closely examining a society sagging under the white supremacy of the French colonist rulers, Dance on the Volcano is one of only novels to closely depict the seeds and fruition of the Haitian Revolution, tracking an elaborate hierarchy of skin color and class through the experiences of two young women. It is a story about hatred and fear, love and loss, and the complex tensions between colonizer and colonized, masterfully translated by Kaiama L. Glover.
Dance on the Volcano tells the story of two sisters growing up during the Haitian Revolution in a culture that swings heavily between decadence and poverty, sensuality and depravity. One sister...
Description
Dance on the Volcano tells the story of two sisters growing up during the Haitian Revolution in a culture that swings heavily between decadence and poverty, sensuality and depravity. One sister, because of her singing ability, is able to enter into the white colonial society otherwise generally off limits to people of color. Closely examining a society sagging under the white supremacy of the French colonist rulers, Dance on the Volcano is one of only novels to closely depict the seeds and fruition of the Haitian Revolution, tracking an elaborate hierarchy of skin color and class through the experiences of two young women. It is a story about hatred and fear, love and loss, and the complex tensions between colonizer and colonized, masterfully translated by Kaiama L. Glover.
Advance Praise
"Before the twentieth century so many important women are (to borrow the idea of Rolph Trouillot) silenced out of history.... Especially women who didn't write letters or anything like that. I admire tremendously what Marie Vieux Chauvet did, in [Dance on the Volcano], to bring such women back to life." --Madison Smartt Bell
"Like a knife thrust into the sexual, social, racial, and political passions of a provincial town" --Libération
"In three movements as somber as they are striking, Marie Vieux-Chauvet explodes Hatian society in the time of dictator François Duvalier, in a classic style stripped of all exotic lyricism.... None of the dark forces that shook the country during this tragic period are forgotten in this novel-manifesto, from which no one comes out innocent." --Le Monde
"Chauvet was nitroglycerin. She set her sights on an illness ravaging Haitian society" --Dany Laferrière
"Before the twentieth century so many important women are (to borrow the idea of Rolph Trouillot) silenced out of history.... Especially women who didn't write letters or anything like that. I admire...
Advance Praise
"Before the twentieth century so many important women are (to borrow the idea of Rolph Trouillot) silenced out of history.... Especially women who didn't write letters or anything like that. I admire tremendously what Marie Vieux Chauvet did, in [Dance on the Volcano], to bring such women back to life." --Madison Smartt Bell
"Like a knife thrust into the sexual, social, racial, and political passions of a provincial town" --Libération
"In three movements as somber as they are striking, Marie Vieux-Chauvet explodes Hatian society in the time of dictator François Duvalier, in a classic style stripped of all exotic lyricism.... None of the dark forces that shook the country during this tragic period are forgotten in this novel-manifesto, from which no one comes out innocent." --Le Monde
"Chauvet was nitroglycerin. She set her sights on an illness ravaging Haitian society" --Dany Laferrière
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9780914671572 |
| PRICE |
$18.00 (USD)
|
| PAGES |
496
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Additional Information
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9780914671572 |
| PRICE |
$18.00 (USD)
|
| PAGES |
496
|
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