{"product_id":"cruel-destiny-and-the-white-negress-two-novels-by-cl-ante-desgraves-valcin-paperback","title":"Cruel Destiny and the White Negress: Two Novels by Cl?ante Desgraves Valcin - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam Nemmers\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJeanne J?gousso\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCl?ante D. Valcin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCléante 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCruel Destiny\u003c\/i\u003e (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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe White Negress\u003c\/i\u003e (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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCLÉANTE VALCIN (1891-1956) was a Haitian novelist and activist who co-founded the journal \u003ci\u003eVoix des femmes \u003c\/i\u003e(Voice of women) and served as president for the country's leading feminist organization \u003ci\u003eLa Ligue Féminine d'Action Sociale\u003c\/i\u003e. After publishing the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eFleurs et Pleurs \u003c\/i\u003e(1924), she wrote the first two novels ever published by a Haitian woman. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e JEANNE JÉGOUSSO is an assistant professor of French at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, where she specializes in Francophone literatures from the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. She co-edited the volume \u003ci\u003eTeaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the co-director of the digital project \u003ci\u003eThe Library of Glissant Studies.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ADAM NEMMERS is an associate professor of English at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, whose research focuses on multi-ethnic American literature. He is author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Modern(ist) Epic: Novels to Refound a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eYours in Filial Regards: THe Civil War Letters of a Texan Family\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e MYRIAM J.A.. CHANCY is a Guggenheim Fellow and HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College in Claremont, California. She is the author of multiple academic works and novels, including \u003ci\u003eFraming Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women \u003c\/i\u003e(Rutgers University Press), \u003ci\u003eFrom Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions from Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhat Storm, What Thunder.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 8.97 x 6.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 14, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748053909792,"sku":"9781978837584","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b32297d256a9a3bfecff48ef25cf5830.webp?v=1779903675","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/cruel-destiny-and-the-white-negress-two-novels-by-cl-ante-desgraves-valcin-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}