The Infamous Rosalie

by Evelyne Trouillot

Book Overview

Lisette, a Saint-Domingue-born Creole slave and daughter of an African-born bossale, has inherited not only the condition of slavery but the traumatic memory of the Middle Passage as well. The stories told to her by her grandmother and godmother, including the horrific voyage aboard the infamous slave ship Rosalie, have become part of her own story, the one she tells in this haunting novel by the acclaimed Haitian writer velyne Trouillot...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803240260
• ISBN13: 9780803240261
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 8.0"