Status Updates From Framing Silence: Revolution...

Haiti's ground has always been shifting and it's women writers have attempted to still that landscape through varied images of the material and social realities of Haitian women's lives. In order for their words to have resonance in contexts which mishear and silence their voices, they must use methods of subversion that appear to embrace literary and social norms but that in fact disembowel them.

Whew!

Published in 1997 this academic text reads like such a breakthrough for the way Chancy interwove her own familial ancestries and their actions as foundational to her analysis. In a sense it feels shockingly intimate for academic writing and even in comparison to her more recent academic work especially as it does not read as something prepared for the "general reader" (although I'm doing fine so far).