Holding Haitian Girlhood: On Seeing and Being Seen in Claire of the Sea Light
- When
- Thursday, November 12, 20264:30 PM – 6:00 PM ESTAdd to calendarGoogle Calendar
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- Devlin Hall 101Boston College, 255 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467Open in Maps
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About
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES PROGRAM 2026-2027 NEW DIRECTIONS LECTURE SERIES:
Dr. Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
Professor and Chair, Department of Cultures, Societies & Global Studies
Dean's Professor of Culture & Social Justice Professor of Africana Studies, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Northeastern University
This talk reads Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light as one of her most deliberate and empowering portrayals of Haitian girlhood. Prof. Jean-Charles focuses on what the character, Claire Limyè Lanmè, as simultaneously present and absent – both visible and invisible. That Danticat’s refuses to separate these binaries invokes a Vodou epistemology that searches for balance, and encourages Jean-Charles to contemplate what it means to “hold Haitian girlhood.”