New Narratives of Haiti
- New Narratives of Haiti
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Paysage Argenté/Silver Landscape (detail). Mixed media on aluminum. 96 × 144 cm. ©2011 Edouard Duval-Carrié. Private collection.
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Laurent Dubois is Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University, and Co-Director of the Haiti Laboratory of the Franklin Humanities Center. He recently published Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (Metropolitan Books). He is also the author of two books on the revolutionary Caribbean: Avengers of the New World (2004) and A Colony of Citizens (2004). In 2010 he published Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (University of California Press), and is the founding editor of the Soccer Politics Blog (sites.duke.edu/wcwp). His current research focuses on the history of the banjo (under contract with Harvard University Press).
Kaiama L. Glover is an Associate Professor in the French Department and the Africana Studies Program at Barnard College, Columbia University. She has published articles in The French Review, Small Axe, Research in African Literatures, The Journal of Postcolonial Writings, and The Journal of Haitian Studies, among others. Her book, Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon, was published by Liverpool University Press in 2010. Kaiama’s current projects include Disorderly Women, a study of the ethics of narcissism and configurations of the feminine in 20th and 21st century Caribbean fiction, and Revisiting Marie Vieux Chauvet: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Feminine, an edited volume of critical essays for Yale French Studies.
