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Quiet Dawn by Jean-Claude Fignolé (2025, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-101478031611
ISBN-139781478031611
eBay Product ID (ePID)13068548733
Product Key Features
Number of Pages277 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameQuiet Dawn
Publication Year2025
SubjectEthnic Studies / African American Studies
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science
AuthorJean-Claude Fignolé
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight10.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2024-033023
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsWhat good fortune to have Jean-Claude Fignolé's unique voice brought before us at last in this masterpiece of translation by Kaiama Glover and Laurent Dubois. Sensual and moving, multivalent and dynamic, Fignolé's Quiet Dawn takes on new life; and, like Haiti itself, invites us to live through 'the fatality' of a unique 'history'--the gripping portrait of a place where, as his translators write, the 'past is literally everywhere at once.'|9781478031611|, "From a virtuoso of Haitian literature comes this stunning whorl of history, revolution, love, and politics. With vivid authority, Jean-Claude Fignolé offers an intriguing and painful saga of a colonial family moving through history, painting portraits of many of the towering figures from Haiti's colonial past. He situates a living, pulsing Haiti directly where it should be: at the axis of the twirling vortex of post-seventeenth-century Western history. It's a pleasure to read this book and a lesson, as well, about how we can interpret the legacy of the crowded Atlantic drama in our day."-- Amy Wilentz, author of , Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti "What good fortune to have Jean-Claude Fignolé's unique voice brought before us at last in this masterpiece of translation by Kaiama L. Glover and Laurent Dubois. Sensual and moving, multivalent and dynamic, Fignolé's Quiet Dawn takes on new life and, like Haiti itself, invites us to live through the 'fatality' of a unique 'history'--the gripping portrait of a place where, as the translators write, the 'past is literally everywhere all at once."-- Colin Dayan, author of , Animal Quintet: A Southern Memoir, From a virtuoso of Haitian literature comes this stunning whorl of history, revolution, love, and politics. With vivid authority, Jean-Claude Fignolé offers an intriguing and painful saga of a colonial family moving through history, painting portraits of many of the towering figures from Haiti's colonial past. He situates a living, pulsing Haiti directly where it should be: at the axis of the twirling vortex of post-seventeenth-century Western history. It's a pleasure to read this book and a lesson, as well, about how we can interpret the legacy of the crowded Atlantic drama in our day., What good fortune to have Jean-Claude Fignolé's unique voice brought before us at last in this masterpiece of translation by Kaiama L. Glover and Laurent Dubois. Sensual and moving, multivalent and dynamic, Fignolé's Quiet Dawn takes on new life and, like Haiti itself, invites us to live through the 'fatality' of a unique 'history'--the gripping portrait of a place where, as the translators write, the 'past is literally everywhere all at once., What good fortune to have Jean-Claude Fignolé's unique voice brought before us at last in this masterpiece of translation by Kaiama L. Glover and Laurent Dubois. Sensual and moving, multivalent and dynamic, Fignolé's Quiet Dawn takes on new life; and, like Haiti itself, invites us to live through 'the fatality' of a unique 'history'--the gripping portrait of a place where, as his translators write, the 'past is literally everywhere at once.'|9781478031611|, "From a virtuoso of Haitian literature comes this stunning whorl of history, revolution, love, and politics. With vivid authority, Jean-Claude FignolE offers an intriguing and painful saga of a colonial family moving through history, painting portraits of many of the towering figures from Haiti's colonial past. He situates a living, pulsing Haiti directly where it should be: at the axis of the twirling vortex of post-seventeenth-century Western history. It's a pleasure to read this book and a lesson, as well, about how we can interpret the legacy of the crowded Atlantic drama in our day." - Amy Wilentz, author of (Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti) "What good fortune to have Jean-Claude FignolE's unique voice brought before us at last in this masterpiece of translation by Kaiama L. Glover and Laurent Dubois. Sensual and moving, multivalent and dynamic, FignolE's Quiet Dawn takes on new life and, like Haiti itself, invites us to live through the 'fatality' of a unique 'history'-the gripping portrait of a place where, as the translators write, the 'past is literally everywhere all at once." - Colin Dayan, author of (Animal Quintet: A Southern Memoir), From a virtuoso of Haitian literature comes this stunning whorl of history, revolution, love, and politics. With vivid authority, Jean-Claude Fignolé offers an intriguing and painful saga of a colonial family moving through history, painting portraits of many of the towering figures from Haiti's colonial past. He situates a living, pulsing Haiti directly where it should be: at the axis of the twirling vortex of post-seventeenth-century Western history. It's a pleasure to read this book, and a lesson, as well, about how we can interpret the legacy of the crowded Atlantic drama in our day.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal843.914
SynopsisJean-Claude FignolE's Quiet Dawn tells an enthralling story of Haiti's transition from French colony to independent Black republic. The swirling, multilayered novel provides intimate portraits of an eighteenth-century slaveholder, his wife, and their enslaved laborers set against the devastating backdrop of enslavement and revolution. Into this Gothic colonial tale FignolE interweaves a series of tragic events involving a present-day French nun doing penance for the sins of her ancestors. One of the few contemporary Haitian novels to explicitly grapple with Haiti's revolution, Quiet Dawn foregrounds issues of race, power, the continuing legacy of historical trauma, and the unresolved tensions between the past and present. Published in French in 1990 and appearing here in English for the first time, Quiet Dawn forcefully pushes against the silencing of Haiti's past, belying its title to depict a clamorous Atlantic world that comprises Europe, Africa, and the vast expanse of the Americas., Jean-Claude FignolE's Quiet Dawn tells an enthralling story of Haiti's transition from French colony to independent Black republic. The swirling, multilayered novel provides intimate portraits of an eighteenth-century slaveholder, his wife, and their enslaved laborers set against the devastating backdrop of enslavement and revolution. Into this ......, Jean-Claude Fignolé's Quiet Dawn tells an enthralling story of Haiti's transition from French colony to independent Black republic. The swirling, multilayered novel provides intimate portraits of an eighteenth-century slaveholder, his wife, and their enslaved laborers set against the devastating backdrop of enslavement and revolution. Into this Gothic colonial tale Fignolé interweaves a series of tragic events involving a present-day French nun doing penance for the sins of her ancestors. One of the few contemporary Haitian novels to explicitly grapple with Haiti's revolution, Quiet Dawn foregrounds issues of race, power, the continuing legacy of historical trauma, and the unresolved tensions between the past and present. Published in French in 1990 and appearing here in English for the first time, Quiet Dawn forcefully pushes against the silencing of Haiti's past, belying its title to depict a clamorous Atlantic world that comprises Europe, Africa, and the vast expanse of the Americas.
LC Classification NumberPQ3949.2.F5A9313
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