Palimpsest - Volume #13, Issue #1 (06/2024)

Table of Contents 

Editor’s Introduction

Book Discussion: Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction

Looking for Other Worlds through Haitian Epistemology: The Lakou, the Kafou, and the Poto Mitan
Cécile Accilien 

Clearing Space for a Queer Caribbean Ethic of Care
Laurie R. Lambert

Reimagining the Place of Haitian Women Writers in Black Feminism
Warren Harding and Marie Larose

In Other Words: A Rasanblaj of Not So Random Everyday Notes
Gina Athena Ulysse

Brasaj as Haitian Black Feminist Intersectional Thought
Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken

On Care as Method
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles

Book Discussion: Grace L. Sanders Johnson, White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship, and Politic al Wayfaring in Haiti

“More Humanly Workable Geographies”: Spatializing Feminist Politics in Grace Sanders Johnson’s White Gloves, Black Nation
Shelby M. Sinclair

Haitian Feminists’ Struggle for the Right to Self-Determination
Sabine Lamour

Ain’t I a/Haitian/Woman/Scholar?
Nadève Ménard

Mapping (a) Movement: Some Points, Lines, and a Blueprint
Grace L. Sanders Johnson

Book Discussion: Myriam Chancy, What Storm, What Thunder

Polyvocality, Agency, and Memorialization in What Storm, What Thunder
Lucy Swanson

Black Feminist Storytelling in the Wake of the 2010 Earthquake
Erin L. Durban

What Storm, What Thunder: Centering Community from the Margins in a Polyvocal Novel
Myriam J. A. Chancy

Book Reviews

All Books Reviewed by the Palimpsest Editorial Collective

Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World

Kaiama L. Glover, A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being

Erica L. Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder, eds., As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

Ana-Maurine Lara, Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty

Emily A. Owens, Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans

Contributors