Quiet Dawn

Auteur

Jean-Claude Fignolé (1941–2017) was a Haitian author, poet, cofounder of Haiti’s Spiralist literary movement, and the author of several novels in French.

Laurent Dubois is John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia.

Kaiama L. Glover is Professor of African American Studies and French at Yale University.

Texte du rabat

Jean-Claude Fignolé’s Quiet Dawn tells an enthralling story of Haiti’s transition from French colony to independent Black republic, foregrounding issues of race, power, the continuing legacy of historical trauma, and the unresolved tensions between the past and present.