Haiti as Global Nexus: A reading from the novel Village Weavers by author Myriam Chancy

Myriam J. A. Chancy is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction, Guggenheim Fellow, and HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College whose work focuses on Haiti and the Caribbean. She is the author of the Guggenheim-awarded book, Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony and Transmission in the African Diaspora, as well as From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions from Haiti, Cuba & The Dominican Republic, Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women, Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile, and Harvesting Haiti: Essays on Unnatural Disasters, which received the 2023 Isis Duarte Award from the Latin American Studies Association.

She is also the author of four novels, among them her most recent novel, the award-winning Village Weavers. The novel is set in 1940s' Port-au-Prince and tells the story of Gertie and Sisi who become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young girls, they build their unlikely friendship- until a deathbed revelation tears them apart. Chancy will do a reading from the novel and outline how the stories it tells pertain to important themes in Haitian society and international affairs.

This event is part of the "Haiti: Past, Present, and Futures" event series organized by Professor Rachel Jean-Baptiste (History and African & African American Studies).