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Historically and contemporarily, politically and literarily, Haiti has long been relegated to the margins of the so-called 'New World.' Marked by exceptionalism, the voices of some of its most important writers have consequently been muted by the geopolitical realities of the nation's fraught history. In Haiti Unbound, Kaiama L. Glover offers a close look at the works of three such writers: the Haitian Spiralists Frankétienne, Jean-Claude Fignolé, and René Philoctète. While Spiralism has been acknowledged by scholars and regional writer-intellectuals alike as a crucial contribution to the French-speaking Caribbean literary tradition, the Spiralist ethic-aesthetic not yet been given the sustained attention of a full-length study. Glover's book represents the first effort in any language to consider the works of the three Spiralist authors both individually and collectively, and so fills an astonishingly empty place in the assessment of postcolonial Caribbean aesthetics. Touching on the role and destiny of Haiti in the Americas, Haiti Unbound engages with long-standing issues of imperialism and resistance culture in the transatlantic world. Glover's timely project emphatically articulates Haiti's regional and global centrality, combining vital 'big picture' reflections on the field of postcolonial studies with elegant close-reading-based analyses of the philosophical perspective and creative practice of a distinctively Haitian literary phenomenon. Most importantly perhaps, the book advocates for the inclusion of three largely unrecognized voices in the disturbingly fixed roster of writer-intellectuals that have thus far interested theorists of postcolonial (Francophone) literature. Providing insightful and sophisticated blueprints for the reading and teaching of the Spiralists' prose fiction, Haiti Unbound will serve as a point of reference for the works of these authors and for the singular socio-political space out of and within which they write.

French literature (outside France) --- Haiti --- Haitian fiction --- Romance Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- French Literature --- History and criticism --- Frankétienne --- Fignolé, Jean Claude --- Philoctète, René --- Criticism and interpretation. --- History and criticism. --- French fiction --- Haitian fiction (French) --- Franketyèn --- Haitian literature --- Philoctète, Ren --- Étienne, Franck --- Literatur. --- Französisch. --- Haitian fiction. --- Philoctete, Rene. --- Franketienne. --- Fignole, Jean-Claude. --- Philoctete, Rene, --- Franketienne, --- Fignole, Jean Claude, --- Fignole, Jean Claude. --- Philoctete, Rene --- Fignole, Jean Claude --- Franketienne --- 1900 - 1999 --- Französisches Sprachgebiet. --- Haiti. --- Langue d'Oil --- Französische Sprache --- Galloromanisch --- Belletristik --- Dichtung --- Schöne Literatur --- Sprachkunst --- Wortkunst --- Buch --- Schriftsteller --- Fignolé, Jean-Claude --- 1941 --- -24.05.1941 --- -Franketienne --- Etienne, Frank --- Francketienne --- Frankétiénne --- Etienne, Franck --- Schauspieler --- Maler --- 1936 --- -Schriftsteller --- 1932-1995 --- Hayti --- République de Haïti --- Haïti --- Republic of Haïti --- Saint-Domingue --- République de Haiti --- Haitianer --- République de Haïti --- Haïti --- Republic of Haïti --- République de Haiti --- Fignolé, Jean-Claude --- Identity (Psychology) --- Migration, Internal --- Racism --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Europe --- Ethnic relations. --- Ayiti --- Bohio --- Haichi --- Haytian Republic --- Quisqueya --- Repiblik Ayiti --- Repiblik d Ayiti --- Republic of Haiti --- République d'Haïti --- ハイチ --- هايتي --- Гаити --- Gaiti --- Group identity --- Immigrants --- Social conditions. --- Emigration and immigration --- Social aspects. --- Social conditions --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Santo Domingo --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Migration. Refugees --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- French language --- Study and teaching --- France --- History --- French literature --- Postcolonialism in literature.

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"THE WOMBS OF WOMEN, originally published in France in 2017 as Le Ventre des femmes, and translated into English by French and Africana studies scholar Kaiama Glover, is Françoise Vergès's examination of the 1970s scandal in Réunion upon the discovery that doctors had performed thousands of abortions on Réunionese women without their knowledge, and had collected Social Security reimbursements by over-reporting and falsifying medical costs. For Vergès, the scandal and its aftermath-in which the doctors responsible received minimal to no legal or criminal repercussions, and the Réunionese women received no reparations-exemplifies the coloniality of power in French overseas departments in the postcolonial era. Additionally, this book seeks to intervene in the raced and classed constructions of French feminism and to ask why the voices of women from the overseas departments rarely appear in French feminist analysis. Chapter 1 offers a detailed account of the events surrounding the forced abortions and sterilization of Réunionese women. Chapters 2 and 4 provide historical context for understanding the transition from colonial to postcolonial in the overseas departments, and how population management came to define the postcolonial condition of Réunion. Chapter 3 foregrounds the workings of racial capitalism, and specifically how the wombs of black women are raced. Chapter 5 intervenes in constructions of French feminism and centers the experiences of women living in the French overseas departments. This book will be of interests to scholars of feminism; colonial, postcolonial, and decolonial studies; French studies; African studies; and critical ethnic studies"-- In this book, one of Vergès's primary aims is to interrogate the French definition of the "postcolonial," positing the postcolonial not as a temporality but rather a set of practices and politics that took (and continue to take) place in the wake of the empire's supposed dissolution. Postcoloniality, according to Vergès, is therefore not the end of the colonial relationship but a re-imagining of the colonial territory into French constituencies and "overseas" departments, and is the condition which allowed for the abuse and violence against Réunionese women to take place. In particular, Vergès examines the history of racialized capitalism in Réunion, and the changing discourses of birth control and population management in France and the overseas territories that occured in the transitional moment from colonial to postcolonial.

Social problems --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1970-1979 --- France --- Reunion --- Birth control --- Birth control. --- Colonialism. --- Ethnic relations. --- Feminism. --- Population policy. --- Racism --- Reproductive Rights --- Sterilization, Involuntary --- Women --- Women's Rights --- History --- History. --- Social conditions --- Social conditions. --- 1900-1999. --- France. --- Reunion. --- Réunion --- Réunion. --- Contraception --- Colonialism --- Body --- Slavery --- Blackness --- Population policy --- Book --- Abortion

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In this highly original book, Maboula Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic, where Africa, Europe, and the Americas were tied together by the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism. Each of these spaces has its own way of reading the Black body and the Black experience, and its own modes of visibility, invisibility, silence, and amplification of Black life. By weaving together her personal history with that of France and its abiding myth of color-blindness, Maboula Soumahoro highlights the banality and persistence of structural racism in France today, and shows that freedom will be found in the journey and movement between the sites of the Atlantic triangle. Africana is the name of that freedom.How can we build and reflect on a collective diasporic identity through a personal journey? What are the limits and possibilities of this endeavor, when the personal journey is that of oft-erased bodies and stories, de-humanized lives, and when Black populations in Africa, the Americas, and Europe identify and misidentify with each other, their sensibilities shaped by the particular locales in which their lives unfold?This book makes an important intellectual contribution to contemporary public conversations and theoretical inquiry into race, racism, blackness, and identity today, as it probes and questions the academic methodologies that have functioned as structures of exclusion.

Black people --- Women, Black --- Racism --- Race identity --- Soumahoro, Maboula,

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Vieux Chauvet, Marie, 1916-1973

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Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Haiti