{"product_id":"jean-claude-charles-a-reader-s-guide-9781802070132","title":"Jean-Claude Charles: A Reader’s Guide","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite being a major figure of Haitian literature, Jean-Claude Charles (1949-2008) has received relatively little scholarly attention to date. The present volume seeks to serve as an introduction to the work and universe of this unique and capital writer to an English-language readership.  The essays in the collection are organized along three major axes: contextual articles, placing Charles’ work within the larger Haitian literary landscape, punctual articles, addressing specific themes in a selection of Charles’ books, and author testimonials, attesting to Charles’ work’s importance both to his contemporaries and to a new generation of writers. With the ongoing republication of Charles’ work by Mémoire d’encrier in Montreal, and the increasing interest in the author, the proposed volume is timely and necessary, and is in large part a critical accompaniment to the republishing programme. Described by Dany Laferrière as “most brilliant Haitian author of his generation,” Charles has until recently remained largely unread and little understood. As the various chapters in the volume show, Charles is an author for now, and the collection will accompany readers seeking strikingly original insights on issues such as race, migration, and exile, and the role of the author and literature in times of crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book is a welcome addition to the body of Haitian literary criticism.  It occupies a unique place as it is the first and only volume entirely dedicated to the late Haitian writer Jean-Claude Charles.”\u003cbr\u003eMarie-José Nzengou-Tayo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eRodney Saint-Éloi, Welcome to the Land of Jean-Claude Charles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditors’ Introduction, Martin Munro and Eliana Văgălău\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection One: Contexts\u003cbr\u003eJoëlle Vitiello, Haitian Fugues: Jean-Claude Charles and the Haitian Literary Landscape\u003cbr\u003eEliana Văgălău, Between Haiti and the World: Jean-Claude Charles’ \u003ci\u003eEnracinerrance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVincent Joos, Writing against Difference: Racism and Confinement in Jean-Claude Charles’ Essays\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection Two: Texts and Analyses\u003cbr\u003eJasmine Claude Narcisse, Noir, Nègre et Négoce(s): Navigating \u003ci\u003eBlack \u003c\/i\u003eBeing through the 70s. A reading of \u003ci\u003eLe Corps noir\u003c\/i\u003e by Jean-Claude Charles”\u003cbr\u003eJ. Michael Dash, All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go: Jean-Claude Charles and “l’écriture du reel”\u003cbr\u003eJohn P. Walsh, Jean-Claude Charles, Chronicler of the “Blues au longs cours”\u003cbr\u003eBonnie Thomas, \u003ci\u003eEnracinerrance \u003c\/i\u003ein Jean-Claude Charles’ \u003ci\u003eSainte dérive des cochons\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBamboola Bamboche\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichaël Ferrier, \u003ci\u003eOne Man Band\u003c\/i\u003e: Music and Writing in the Work of Jean-Claude Charles\u003cbr\u003eStève Puig, America and the Blues in Jean-Claude Charles’ \u003ci\u003eFree\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexis Chauchois and Gilles Glacet, Jean-Claude Charles or writing the \u003ci\u003epoto-mitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrigitte Tsobgny, \u003ci\u003eLe Corps Noir\u003c\/i\u003e: A Scientific Metaphor to Translate the Complexities of Racism\u003cbr\u003eAlba Pessini, Retracing \u003ci\u003eBaskets\u003c\/i\u003e:  A Creative Itinerary\u003cbr\u003ePhoto-essay: Patrick Bard, Girls Who Like Jazz Often Break the Heel of a Shoe…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection Three: Family, Friends, and Peers\u003cbr\u003eElvire Duvelle-Charles and Cécile Duvelle, Jean-Claude Charles, A Mirror Life\u003cbr\u003eDany Laferrière, A Style\u003cbr\u003eThomas Spear, Straight, No Chaser\u003cbr\u003eEdouard Duval-Carrié, From Port-au-Prince to Paris and Miami with Jean-Claude\u003cbr\u003eMartine Fidèle, In search of self and of horizons: Jean-Claude Charles, the anguish of being…\u003cbr\u003eKettly Mars, Exile, Myths, and Jean-Claude Charles","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470079005015,"sku":"9781802070132","price":104.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781802070132.jpg?v=1744897336","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jean-claude-charles-a-reader-s-guide-9781802070132","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}