Elektrik: Caribbean Writing

By Fabienne Kanor, Gaël Octavia, Mireille Jean-Gilles

Book Overview

In Elektrik, eight women writers from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe come together to explore, in poetry and prose, the complex nature of Caribbean existence. A single mother has an intimate encounter with a migrant worker; a teenager discovers her sexuality in the shadow of her twin sister; a poet summons a chorus of sirens, only to warn them: "Keep your voices' beauty from waylaying sailors." Through glittering translations from French, Elektrik sings the experience of Franco-Caribbean identity today. These writers communicate through the silence of the past to the unknowability of the future--forever in the rare language of literature.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949641503
• ISBN13: 9781949641509
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Two Lines Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 6.9"