Haitian Feminist Futures
In response to the various review essays, this essay ponders the afterlives of Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022) by reflecting on the presence and absence in Caribbean literature of Haitian girls’ dreams for the future. The author examines the Haitian girl characters in novels by Kettly Mars, Yanick Lahens, and Évelyne Trouillot, as well as in a poem by Claudine Michel. The essay builds on this work in search of Haitian feminist futures by exploring girl characters in Saika Césu’s novel Tifi and Shirley Bruno’s short film Tezen as examples of centering Haitian girlhood.
Authors
- Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7851-451X)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
- Published
- 2024-11-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-11592778
- Primary Topic
- Caribbean history, culture, and politics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00