Quiet Dawn (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781478031611)

Jean-Claude Fignol?'s Quiet Dawn tells an enthralling story of Haiti's transition from French colony to independent Black republic. The swirling, multilayered novel provides intimate portraits of an eighteenth-century slaveholder, his wife, and their enslaved laborers set against the devastating backdrop of enslavement and revolution. Into this Gothic colonial tale Fignol? interweaves a series of tragic events involving a present-day French nun doing penance for the sins of her ancestors. One of the few contemporary Haitian novels to explicitly grapple with Haiti's revolution, Quiet Dawn foregrounds issues of race, power, the continuing legacy of historical trauma, and the unresolved tensions between the past and present. Published in French in 1990 and appearing here in English for the first time, Quiet Dawn forcefully pushes against the silencing of Haiti's past, belying its title to depict a clamorous Atlantic world that comprises Europe, Africa, and the vast expanse of the Americas.

Author: Jean-Claude Fignol?
ISBN-10: 1478031611
ISBN-13: 9781478031611
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/06/2025
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs