Looking for Other Worlds

Regine Michelle Jean-Charles is Dean's Professor of Culture and Social Justice and Professor of Africana Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University and the author of Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary.

In Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction, Dr. Regine Michelle Jean-Charles examines the works of three contemporary Haitian women writers through rigorous scholarly analysis, as well as deeply personal reflections. Contextualizing these works within Haitian history and culture, literary ethics and Black feminism, Jean-Charles sheds much needed light on the complexity and virtuosity of these writers' oeuvres, and the vitality and potency of Haitian literature in general. Jean-Charles' own brilliant writing and thinking expertly guides us through this most refreshing, invigorating, nuanced, and thought provoking book. --Edwidge Danticat, author of Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist At Work Well written and engaging, Looking for Other Worlds is the first study of its kind. It makes an original and substantial contribution to several fields, including Caribbean studies, women's and gender studies, Africana studies, ethics, and environmental studies. --Toni Pressley-Sanon, Eastern Michigan University, author of Istwa across the Water: Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination