Kaiama L. Glover is an associate professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon, coeditor of Yale French Studies” Revisiting Marie Vieux-Chauvet: Paradoxes of Postcolonial Feminine (issue no. 128), and translator of René Depestre”s Hadriana in All My Dreams, Frenkétienne”s Ready to Burst, and Marie Vieux-Chauvet”s Dance on the Volcano. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the Fulbright Foundation.
14 Ebooks by Kaiama L. Glover
René Depestre: Hadriana in All My Dreams
Legendary Haitian author Depestre combines magic, fantasy, eroticism, and delirious humor to explore universal questions of race and sexuality. “One-of-a-kind . . . [A] ribald, free-wheeling magical- …
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Marie Vieux-Chauvet: Töchter Haitis
Exklusive Entdeckung der haitianischen Klassikerin des 20. Jahrhunderts: «Weltliteratur.» Libération Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Anfang der 1940er Jahre. Die junge Lotus gehört der herrschenden «mulattisc …
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Kettly Mars: I Am Alive
I Am Alive (Je suis vivant) is celebrated Haitian author Kettly Mars’s latest novel, telling the story of a bourgeois Caribbean family as it wrestles with issues of mental illness, unconventional sex …
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René Depestre: Hadriana in All My Dreams
Set during Carnival in Haiti 1938, a young and beautiful woman named Hadriana drinks a mysterious potion on her wedding day and collapses at the altar. She is buried and later resurrected by an evil …
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Marie Vieux-Chauvet: Der Tanz auf dem Vulkan
»Eine ergreifende Geschichte über Hass und Angst, Liebe und Verlust und die komplexen Spannungen zwischen Kolonisatoren und Kolonisierten. Ein Meisterwerk.« Boston Globe Port-au-Prince 1792: Minette …
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Yanick Lahens: Sweet Undoings
Yanick Lahens leads us into a breathless intrigue with her newest portrait of Haiti, Sweet Undoings. In Port-au-Prince, violence never consumes. It finds its counterpart in a ‘high-pitched swee …
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Marie Vieux-Chauvet: Wiedersehen in Fonds-des-Nègres
Die Selbstfindung einer jungen Frau zwischen postkolonialer städtischer Kultur und dem von Aberglauben geprägten Landleben und ihr Kampf für die Erhaltung der Natur als Lebensgrundlage der Bauern. Ma …
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René Depestre: Popa Singer
The latest novel by one of Haiti’s most brilliant writers The most recent book by the renowned Haitian novelist, essayist, and poet René Depestre, Popa Singer is a semiautobiographical chronicle of H …
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Laurent Dubois & Kaiama L. Glover: Haiti Reader
While Haiti established the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere and was the first black country to gain independence from European colonizers, its history is not well known in the Ang …
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Francoise Verges: Wombs of Women
In the 1960s thousands of poor women of color on the (post)colonial French island of Reunion had their pregnancies forcefully terminated by white doctors; the doctors operated under the pretext of pe …
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Kaiama L. Glover: Regarded Self
In A Regarded Self Kaiama L. Glover champions unruly female protagonists who adamantly refuse the constraints of coercive communities. Reading novels by Marie Chauvet, Maryse Conde, Rene Depestre, Ma …
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Marie Vieux-Chauvet: Liebe, Wut, Wahnsinn
«Nennt mich schamlos und unmoralisch. Verpasst mir die schlimmsten Schimpfnamen, wenn es euch erleichtert, aber ihr werdet mich nicht mehr einschüchtern.» In «Liebe» beobachtet Claire voller Sehnsuch …
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