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Cruel Destiny and The White Negress

- Two Novels by Cleante Desgraves Valcin
Af: Cleante D. Valcin Engelsk Hardback

Cruel Destiny and The White Negress

- Two Novels by Cleante Desgraves Valcin
Af: Cleante D. Valcin Engelsk Hardback
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Cléante Desgraves Valcin (1891-1956) was a poet, writer, and feminist—most prominently Haiti’s first published female novelist, who employed her sentimental fiction to explore matters of race, gender, nationalism, and sovereignty. A contemporary of Harlem Renaissance writers such as Nella Larsen and Zora Neale Hurston, Valcin emerged as an influential writer and political figure among the Black Atlantic diaspora.  Now, for the first time, her two acclaimed novels are available in English translation. 
 
Cruel Destiny (1929) tells the tragic love story of Armand and Adeline, drawn together by a magnetic attraction, yet kept apart by a dark family secret. Depicting the heavy expectations placed upon women in Haiti’s elite society, it also explores the troubled and twisted relationships between the Haitians and their former colonial masters, the French. 
 
In The White Negress (1934), a Frenchwoman moves to Haiti and is torn between two very different men, a Black Haitian lawyer, and a white American carpetbagger. Putting a fresh spin on the tired tragic mulatta trope, Valcin reveals the racial prejudices, class tensions, and anti-colonial resentments of an island under American occupation. 
 
Together, these two novels expand our understanding of Caribbean literature, as well as the political struggles and artistic triumphs of Black women in the Americas. 

 
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Cléante Desgraves Valcin (1891-1956) was a poet, writer, and feminist—most prominently Haiti’s first published female novelist, who employed her sentimental fiction to explore matters of race, gender, nationalism, and sovereignty. A contemporary of Harlem Renaissance writers such as Nella Larsen and Zora Neale Hurston, Valcin emerged as an influential writer and political figure among the Black Atlantic diaspora.  Now, for the first time, her two acclaimed novels are available in English translation. 
 
Cruel Destiny (1929) tells the tragic love story of Armand and Adeline, drawn together by a magnetic attraction, yet kept apart by a dark family secret. Depicting the heavy expectations placed upon women in Haiti’s elite society, it also explores the troubled and twisted relationships between the Haitians and their former colonial masters, the French. 
 
In The White Negress (1934), a Frenchwoman moves to Haiti and is torn between two very different men, a Black Haitian lawyer, and a white American carpetbagger. Putting a fresh spin on the tired tragic mulatta trope, Valcin reveals the racial prejudices, class tensions, and anti-colonial resentments of an island under American occupation. 
 
Together, these two novels expand our understanding of Caribbean literature, as well as the political struggles and artistic triumphs of Black women in the Americas. 

 
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN-13: 9781978837591
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1978837593
Kategori: Relating to African American people
Udg. Dato: 14 jun 2024
Længde: 24mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: Rutgers University Press
Oplagsdato: 14 jun 2024
Forfatter(e): Cleante D. Valcin
Forfatter(e) Cleante D. Valcin

Kategori Relating to African American people

ISBN-13 9781978837591

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 336

Udgave

Længde 24mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 14 jun 2024

Oplagsdato 14 jun 2024

Forlag Rutgers University Press