Cruel Destiny And The White Negress

Author : Cléante D. Valcin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781978837607

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Cruel Destiny and The White Negress by Cléante D. Valcin Pdf

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.

Author : Cléante D. Valcin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1978837585

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Cruel Destiny and the White Negress: Two Novels by Cléante Desgraves Valcin by Cléante D. Valcin Pdf

Cruel Destiny (Cruelle Destinée) and The White Negress (La Blanche Négresse) are the first and second novels published by a Haitian woman, Cléante Valcin. Translated to English now for the first time by Jeanne Jégousso, these novels offer an incisive perspective on the fate, romance, and reversals of characters in Haiti, the Pearl of the Antilles, during the 1920s and 1930s.

Author : Claire Buck
Publisher : New York : Prentice Hall General Reference
Page : 1194 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015029518191

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The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature by Claire Buck Pdf

Provides biographies, novel synopses, poems, plays, and essays by or about women, and discusses feminist literature.

Author : Chantalle F. Verna
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813585185

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Haiti and the Uses of America by Chantalle F. Verna Pdf

Contrary to popular notions, Haiti-U.S. relations have not only been about Haitian resistance to U.S. domination. In Haiti and the Uses of America, Chantalle F. Verna makes evident that there have been key moments of cooperation that contributed to nation-building in both countries. In the years following the U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915-1934), Haitian politicians and professionals with a cosmopolitan outlook shaped a new era in Haiti-U.S. diplomacy. Their efforts, Verna shows, helped favorable ideas about the United States, once held by a small segment of Haitian society, circulate more widely. In this way, Haitians contributed to and capitalized upon the spread of internationalism in the Americas and the larger world.

Author : Doris Y. Kadish,Françoise Massardier-Kenney
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0873384989

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Translating Slavery by Doris Y. Kadish,Françoise Massardier-Kenney Pdf

This study explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender and race. It focuses on anti-slavery writing by French women during the revolutionary period, when a number of them spoke out against the oppression of slaves and women."

Author : David R. Roediger
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028809197

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Black on White by David R. Roediger Pdf

From Frederick Douglass and WEB Du Bois to Claude McKay and Alice Walker, more than fifty of the most important black writers throughout history explore the question: What does it really mean to be white?

Author : Hilda L. Smith,Berenice A. Carroll
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0253337585

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Women's Political and Social Thought by Hilda L. Smith,Berenice A. Carroll Pdf

..". a wide array of time periods, cultures, and formats... " --Library Journal The first collection of source readings of women's important writings in political and social theory from ancient times to the twentieth century. From Sappho of Lesbos to Mary Wollstonecraft and from Jane Addams to Simone Weil, these works fill a major gap in materials available for teaching the history of political thought and opens paths for exploring the rich and diverse contributions of women as creators of theory.

Author : Frantz Fanon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Black race
ISBN : 0745399541

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Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon Pdf

Black Skin, White Masks is a classic, devastating account of the dehumanising effects of colonisation experienced by black subjects living in a white world. First published in English in 1967, this book provides an unsurpassed study of the psychology of racism using scientific analysis and poetic grace.Franz Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture, a denial of difference, that persists to this day. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, his writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political and cultural liberation.With an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack.

Author : James Theodore Holly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Black people
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020342416

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A Vindication of the Capacity of the Negro Race for Self-government, and Civilized Progress by James Theodore Holly Pdf

Author : Cody Ferguson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813565644

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This Is Our Land by Cody Ferguson Pdf

In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. In This is Our Land, Cody Ferguson documents this little-noted change as he describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups—in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee—revealing how quite ordinary citizens fought to solve environmental problems. Here are stories of common people who, confronting environmental threats to the health and safety of their families and communities, bonded together to protect their interests. These stories include successes and failures as citizens learned how to participate in their democracy and redefined what participation meant. Equally important, Ferguson describes how several laws passed in the seventies—such as the National Environmental Policy Act—gave citizens the opportunity and the tools to fight for the environment. These laws gave people a say in the decisions that affected the world around them, including the air they breathed, the water they drank, the land on which they made their living, and the communities they called home. Moreover, Ferguson shows that through their experiences over the course of the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, these citizen activists broadened their understanding of “this is our land” to mean “this is our community, this is our country, this is our democracy, and this is our planet.” As they did, they redefined political participation and expanded the ability of citizens to shape their world. Challenging us to see activism in a new way, This is Our Land recovers the stories of often-unseen citizens who have been vitally important to the environmental movement. It will inspire readers to confront environmental threats and make our world a safer, more just, and more sustainable place to live.

Author : Earl Lind
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781513298467

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Autobiography of an Androgyne by Earl Lind Pdf

Earl Lind’s 1918 autobiography has been recognized as a pioneering work in the history of transgender literature. Throughout his life, Lind was forced to justify and defend his existence from puritanical authorities. In the first of his trilogy of autobiographical works, he not only demands recognition, but exposes the denial of his existence as nothing but hatred and fear. “Androgynes have of course existed in all ages of history and among all races. In Greek and Latin authors there are many references to them, but these references are not always understood except by the few scholars who are themselves androgynes or at least passive sexual inverts. […] [T]hese men-women, because misunderstood, have been held in great abomination both in the middle ages and in modern times, but the prejudice against them was not so extreme in antiquity, and a cultured citizen having this nature did not then lose caste on this account.” Situating his own identity within this history of oppression, Lind makes the case for recognizing the presence of androgynes in all human societies. Ever since he was a child, Lind identified as feminine and was keenly aware of his homosexual desires, gaining a reputation among the local boys and soon turning to girls for friendship and understanding. In a world that saw androgynes as both corrupt and willfully different, Lind sought to increase understanding and to explain through scientific, historical, and personal evidence why his identity was congenital, and therefore natural. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Earl Lind’s Autobiography of an Androgyne is a classic work of transgender literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Howard Brotz,B.William Austin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351533553

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African-American Social and Political Thought by Howard Brotz,B.William Austin Pdf

In bringing together the most characteristic and serious writings by black scholars, authors, journalists, and educators from the years that preceded the modem civil rights movement, 'African-American Social and Political Thought' provides a comprehensive guide to the range and diversity of black thought. The volume offers a deep history of how the terms of contemporary debate over the future of black Americans were formed. The writings assembled here reveal a tension and a thread between two essential poles of thought. These include those voices that clearly projected civic assimilation as the goal of black aspiration, and those who described how this aim would be achieved, as well as nationalist or separatist voices that despaired of ever having a dignified future in a biracial society. These two positions reflect the most fundamental questions faced by any minority group. In his forceful and courageous introduction to this new edition, Howard Brotz relates the thoughts and reflections of these black thinkers to the social and political situation of blacks in America today and argues against the political orthodoxy and sociological determinism that perpetuates the image of the black as a perennial and passive victim. In the scope and quality of its contents, African-American Social and Political Thought is a unique, invaluable source book for cultural historians, sociologists, and students of black history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : SRLF:C0000041897

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The Illustrated London News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eugène Pelletan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Slavery
ISBN : CHI:100967847

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An Address to King Cotton by Eugène Pelletan Pdf

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180943642

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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Pdf

Heart of Darkness is often considered the world’s best short novel. The book serves as a bridge between the 19th century and modernism, an adventure tale revolving around the ambiguity of themes such as truth, morality, and evil. Joseph Conrad witnessed the European exploitation of the Congo with his own eyes. He once sailed up the Congo River himself to locate a countryman at a trading station deep within the country – even though this man wasn't named Kurtz. The goal and enigma of the journey have become synonymous with this name, one of the most unforgettable fictional characters of our time. JOSEPH CONRAD [1857–1924] was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, went to sea at the age of seventeen, and ended his career as a captain in the English merchant navy. His most famous work is the novella Heart of Darkness [1899], adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979 as Apocalypse Now.