"In her first novel, Cruel Destiny (1929), Cleante Valcin focuses on family relationships and the evolution of the role of women within Haitian elite society (from passive spouses to independent women). Through the love story between Armand and Adeline, the author examines racial prejudices brought over by American soldiers to "La Perle des Antilles," as well as the fraught and paradoxical relationship between Haiti and France during this era. The White Negress (1934) is centered around three characters: Laurence Desvallons ...
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"In her first novel, Cruel Destiny (1929), Cleante Valcin focuses on family relationships and the evolution of the role of women within Haitian elite society (from passive spouses to independent women). Through the love story between Armand and Adeline, the author examines racial prejudices brought over by American soldiers to "La Perle des Antilles," as well as the fraught and paradoxical relationship between Haiti and France during this era. The White Negress (1934) is centered around three characters: Laurence Desvallons: who moved to Haiti from France as a teenager, Guy Vanel: a young Haitian lawyer with political ambitions, and Robert Watson: an American stationed in Haiti. Under the pretext of narrating a love triangle, Valcin provides a lively and never-seen-before account of the tensions between the three communities in Haiti under American occupation, denouncing the precarious position of women within the early twentieth-century Haitian society, the racial prejudices inherited from European colonialism and reinforced by American occupation, and the many corruptions and peccadillos of the Haitian intellectual and political milieu of the 1930s"--
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