{"product_id":"quiet-dawn-paperback-3","title":"Quiet Dawn - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean-Claude Fignol?\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKaiama L. Glover\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eLaurent DuBois\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean-Claude Fignol?'s \u003ci\u003eQuiet Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e tells an enthralling story of Haiti's transition from French colony to independent Black republic. The swirling, multilayered novel provides intimate portraits of an eighteenth-century slaveholder, his wife, and their enslaved laborers set against the devastating backdrop of enslavement and revolution. Into this Gothic colonial tale Fignol? interweaves a series of tragic events involving a present-day French nun doing penance for the sins of her ancestors. One of the few contemporary Haitian novels to explicitly grapple with Haiti's revolution, \u003ci\u003eQuiet Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e foregrounds issues of race, power, the continuing legacy of historical trauma, and the unresolved tensions between the past and present. Published in French in 1990 and appearing here in English for the first time, \u003ci\u003eQuiet Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e forcefully pushes against the silencing of Haiti's past, belying its title to depict a clamorous Atlantic world that comprises Europe, Africa, and the vast expanse of the Americas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean-Claude Fignol? (1941-2017) was a Haitian author, poet, cofounder of Haiti's Spiralist literary movement, and author of several novels in French. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Laurent Dubois is John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Kaiama L. Glover is Professor of African American Studies and French at Yale University.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47386372014329,"sku":"9781478031611","price":29.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/6lvA56Rdzu9781478031611_e8e0ad4a-3bc1-4430-a1a8-14761c18b36a.webp?v=1770189213","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/quiet-dawn-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}