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SUMMARY:Holding Haitian Girlhood: On Seeing and Being Seen in Claire of th
 e Sea Light
LOCATION:Devlin Hall 101\, Boston College\, 255 Beacon Street\, Chestnut H
 ill\, MA 02467
DESCRIPTION:AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES PROGRAM\n2026-2027 NEW DI
 RECTIONS LECTURE SERIES:\n\nDr. Régine Michelle Jean-Charles\n\nProfessor
  and Chair\, Department of Cultures\, Societies & Global Studies\n\nDean'
 s Professor of Culture & Social Justice\nProfessor of Africana Studies\, 
 Women\, Gender & Sexuality Studies\nNortheastern University\n\nThis talk 
 reads Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light as one of her most delib
 erate and empowering portrayals of Haitian girlhood. Prof. Jean-Charles f
 ocuses on what the character\, Claire Limyè Lanmè\, as simultaneously pre
 sent and absent – both visible and invisible. That Danticat’s refuses to 
 separate these binaries invokes a Vodou epistemology that searches for ba
 lance\, and encourages Jean-Charles to contemplate what it means to “hold
  Haitian girlhood.”\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/eea1acdc-4c94-4f4a-b18
 9-3d74f7d5ecc0
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/eea1acdc-4c94-4f4a-b189-3d74f7d5ecc0
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