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SUMMARY:Kaiama L. Glover in conversation with Edwidge Danticat at Albertine
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Albertine for a conversation between translator Kaiama L. Glover and writer Edwidge Danticat about Dance on the Volcano\, by Marie Vieux-Chauvet. \nMadison Smartt-Bell says\, “With what’s going on racially and politically in the United States today\, now is an excellent time for this masterpiece novel to appear in English – and in a translation which does full justice to the great beauty of Chauvet’s prose.” \nSet in late-18th century Haiti\, Dance on the Volcano follows the extraordinary career of Minette\, who uses her prodigious voice to cross racial barriers. Her talent brings her an opportunity to perform at the Theater of Port-au-Prince\, an honor previously reserved only for whites. However\, once the curtain falls she finds herself back to life as normal. Praised but unpaid\, applauded but shut out\, Minette develops a political and racial conscience that that will not rest as long as slavery still exists on the island. Her involvement soon leads her to butt heads with the man she loves\, a free black man as cruel to his slaves as many white landholders\, and to cross paths with the future heroes of the revolution. \n \nKaiama L. Glover is the translator of Ready to Burst by Frankétienne and Dance on the Volcano by Marie Vieux-Chauvet. She received a B.A. in French History and Literature and Afro-American Studies from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in French and Romance Philology from Columbia University. She is now an associate professor of French at Barnard College. Her book\, Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon\, explores the Haitian Spiralist movement. She sits on the editorial boards of the Romanic Review and Small Axe and regularly contributes to The New York Times Book Review.  \n \nEdwidge Danticat is a writer and editor born in Port-au-Prince. Her parents separately moved to the United States\, and Danticat followed them there at the age of 12. Danticat grew up speaking French and Creole and she spoke no English upon arriving in the U.S. However\, after only two years\, she began writing in English and is now the accomplished author of over a dozen books\, including the novel Breath\, Eyes\, Memory; the story collection Krik? Krak!; The Farming of the Bones; and Behind the Mountains. Danticat currently lives in New York and teaches Creative Writing at New York University.
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LOCATION:Albertine\, 972 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10075\, United States
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SUMMARY:Scholastique Mukasonga at Festival Albertine 2016
DESCRIPTION:Scholastique Mukasonga\, author of the award-winning Our Lady of the Nile and the freshly released memoir Cockroaches\, will join Laurent Dubois\, Maboula Soumahoro\, Darryl Pinckney\, and Chris Jackson for a panel discussion titled “Europe and America in the Black Literary Imagination” as part of the Festival Albertine 2016 taking place at the French Embassy of New York City at 5 PM Saturday\, November 5th.  The event is free and open to the public\, but seating is limited. \nFrom the event’s website… \n“This panel will look at how black authors on both sides of the ocean have engaged the country and culture on the other side. Is France an escape for black authors? Is America the land of individual expression and opportunity? After the Second World War\, prominent African-American authors such as Richard Wright\, James Baldwin and Chester Himes made Paris their home. French authors have themselves long been fascinated by the United States\, and New York in particular. This common interest has fed many authors’ writing\, both thematically and stylistically. The essayists and novelist Laurent Dubois\, Maboula Soumahoro\, Darryl Pinckney and Scholastique Mukasonga will reflect on this mutual fascination and ponder how it has impacted their own work and influenced literature more broadly. But how substantive is this connection—is it myth or reality?” \nLaurent Dubois is a professor of romance studies and history and the faculty director of the Forum for Scholars & Publics at Duke University. He is the author of six books\, including Avengers of the New World\,Haiti: The Aftershocks of History and The Banjo: America’s African Instrument. \nScholastique Mukasonga fled Rwanda and settled in France two years before the Tutsi genocide\, in which she lost 27 of her family members. She is the author of three autobiographical works: Cockroaches\, La femme aux pieds nus (Barefoot Woman) and L’Iguifou. Her novel Our Lady of the Nile won the Ahmadou Kourouma and Renaudot prizes. \nDarryl Pinckney\, a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books\, is the author of one novel\, High Cotton\, and two nonfiction works\, Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature. He has collaborated with Robert Wilson on an adaption of Daniil Kharm’sThe Old Woman.\n\nMaboula Soumahoro\, Ph.D. is an associate professor at the Université de Tours François-Rabelais and president of the Black History Month association. Her research focuses topics including the African diaspora and Atlantic black nationalisms. She has taught at Barnard College of Columbia University\, the Paris Institute of Political Science\, and Bennington College—where she is Visiting Faculty in 2016-2017—among other institutions. \nChris Jackson is a vice president of Spiegel & Grau and the editor and publisher of Random House’s One World imprint. Jackson was the editor of Ta-Nehisi Coates’sBetween the World and Me and has edited leading authors whose works speak to African-American and Caribbean experiences\, including Edwidge Danticat\, Jill Leovy and Jay-Z. \nThis event is part of Festival Albertine 2016. All events are free and open to the public. Seating is limited and available on a first come\, first served basis. \nFestival Albertine is made possible with major support from The Recanati-Kaplan Foundation\, the Ford Foundation\, Susannah Hunnewell\, Air France\, Van Cleef & Arpels\, Institut français\, and the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University. Generous support is provided by Champagne Pommery and The Carlyle. \n 
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/scholastique-mukasonga-festival-albertine-2016/
LOCATION:Albertine\, 972 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10075\, United States
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