love anger madness by marie vieux chauvet

Vieux-Chavet’s first book, “Fille d’Haiti,” Daughter of Haiti, is the most well known. Its English translation was published in 2009. Finally, it found its way to a clambering audience by an unauthorized published edition in 2003. It was suppressed for years due to fears it would affect her Haiti-based family. Writer Joan Dayan wrote of this author, “Haiti’s greatest writer has suffered because of near oblivion.” Vieux-Chauvet’s “Amour, Colère et Folie,” Love, Anger and Madness, a trilogy written in 1968, was published posthumously 14 years after her 1973 death. This is the second, more current translation of “Dance on the Volcano”- the first was published almost 60 years ago. In translating, Glover even researched 18th century garments so she would get it right. Glover said that the author writes in great detail, setting the scene and the texture of the era drawing on a background in theatre to portray scenes so vividly. And, not all in that era’s society were on board with the revolution.

Danticat commented on the feminist perspective along with all the main character’s contradictions. And the story is through the perspective of a woman. Vieux-Chauvet airs dirty laundry through human stories - both the glorious and ugly parts. “It was powerful to discover we had this legacy,” she added. In Haiti at that time, her education was conducted in French and highlighted French writers. “I read the whole shelf,” she told attendees. For Danticat, the Vieux-Chauvet books on a shelf of books in the New York Public Library in French were among the works that she gravitated to as a new immigrant from Haiti.

Love anger madness by marie vieux chauvet