Structured like a Creole quadrille, this lyrical novel is a rich ethnography bearing witness to police violence in French Guadeloupe. Narrators both living and dead recount the racial and class stratification that led to a protest-turned-massacre. While Dambury’s English debut is a memorial to a largely forgotten atrocity, it is also a celebration of the vibrancy and resilience of Guadeloupeans.

The Restless

Literature & Fiction

Dambury, Gerty

Literary

The Feminist Press at CUNY

In&nbsp;Elektrik, eight women writers from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe come together to explore, in poetry and prose, the complex nature of Caribbean existence. A single mother has an intimate encounter with a migrant worker; a teenager discovers her sexuality in the shadow of her twin sister; a poet summons a chorus of sirens, only to warn them: "Keep your voices' beauty from waylaying sailors." Through glittering translations from French, Elektrik sings the experience of Franco-Caribbean identity today. These writers communicate through the silence of the past to the unknowability of the future--forever in the rare language of literature.

Elektrik: Caribbean Writing (Calico Series, 8)

Kanor, Fabienne

MARS, Kettly

DRACIUS, Suzanne

Agnant, Marie-Célie

Octavia, Gaël

Jean-Gilles, Mireille

Bonhomme, Adlyne

United States

Two Lines Press

Trames Shades Sombras

MANGUIER

Les rétifs

Genre Fiction

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