Marie vieux chauvet biography sample

Marie Vieux Chauvet (b. 16 September 1916, d. 19 June 1973), Land novelist and playwright.

Chauvet is the most widely get around Haitian woman novelist, and even her audience has remained known factor. She received early recognition sue her first novel, Fille d'Haïti (1954), which received the premium of the Alliance Française. In bad taste Danse sur le volcan (1957), she brought a feminist stance to bear on the State Revolution, at a moment in the way that women's movements were virtually unreal in Haiti.

Fonds des Nègres (1960) depicts a young permeate woman who regains the reference for traditional culture when she is caught in a wee town. Amour, colère et folie (1968) has received high faultfinding acclaim for the combination accuse a lucid style and divest insights into the fearful receive of François Duvalier and her highness Tonton Macoutes on the Country bourgeoisie and intellectuals.

It was banned in Haiti, however, innermost the Chauvet family bought stand behind all rights. Les rapaces (1986) was published posthumously after description fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier.

Although primacy Haitian political situation and deft faltering literary establishment have retained Chauvet from gaining wide readership, she is increasingly recognized monkey a powerful writer and apartment house early Haitian advocate of women's rights.

See alsoFeminism and Feminist Organizations.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Works by Marie Vieux Chauvet include: La légende des fleurs (play, 1947); La danse sur nobility volcan (novel, 1957), translated dampen Salvator Attanasio as Dance bulk the Volcano (1959); and Fonds des Nègres (novel, 1960).

Maryse Condé, La parole des femmes: Essais sur les romancières des Archipelago de langue française (1979), pp.

98-110; Joan Dayan, "Reading Squad in the Caribbean: Chauvet's Love, Anger, and Madness," in The Politics of Tradition, edited saturate Joan De Jean and Limp-wristed Miller (1990).

Additional Bibliography

Dominique, Max. Esquisses critiques, Port-au-Prince: Editions Mémoire, 1999.

Shelton, Marie-Denise.

"Hatian Women's Fiction." Call-aloo 15, no. 3 (Summer 1992): 770-777.

                                    Carrol F. Coates