Dance on the volcano
By: Marie Vieux-Chauvet ; translated from the French by Kaiama L. Glover
Contributors: Glover, Kaiama L., 1972- translator
Edition: First Archipelago Books edition.
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780914671572
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Sisters; Colonies; Fiction; Race relations; History
Work titles: Danse sur le volcan
Description: "Dance on the Volcano tells the story of two sisters growing up during the Haitian Revolution in a culture that swings heavily between decadence and poverty, sensuality and depravity. One sister, because of her singing ability, is able to enter into the white colonial society otherwise generally off limits to people of color. Closely examining a society sagging under the white supremacy of the French colonist rulers, Dance on the Volcano is one of only novels to closely depict the seeds and fruition of the Haitian Revolution, tracking an elaborate hierarchy of skin color and class through the experiences of two young women. It is a story about hatred and fear, love and loss, and the complex tensions between colonizer and colonized, masterfully translated by Kaiama L. Glover"--
Notes: First published as La Danse sur le volcan (Paris : Plon, 1957).