Where does one set the modern novel in this globalized age? What are the artistic and political implications of these choices? In a modern world where stories take place across and outside of national boundaries, how does setting impact subject, tone, and point of view? This panel of Caribbean writers with ties to multiple countries reflect on how they situate the trans-national novel, and highlight narrative tools to bring geographically rich narratives to life. 
With Fabienne Josaphat, Jacqueline Bishop y Marie-Ketsia Théodore-Pharel.

En Fabienne Josaphat’la novela debut de, Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow (Unnamed Press), set in 60s Haiti under the brutal rule of Francois Duvalier, a taxi driver whose activist brother has been imprisoned in the infamous Fort Dimanche, plunges himself into a dangerous scheme that might save his brother—or get them both killed. Jacqueline Bishop‘ s The Gymnast and Other Positions combines short stories and essays that explore the relationship between the free imagination and the controlling and even potentially betraying power of art. Marie-Ketsia Théodore-Pharel’s Rope (Grace Donner Trilogy) begins in 1925, when a US Marine tracker captures and hangs a Haitian rebel hero, and shows the devastating and paranormal impact of the execution on Haiti, the Marine, and the generation that follows.

Leer programas del Caribe creados en asociación con Sosyete Koukouy, Bocas Literary Festival y Read Jamaica, con el apoyo de Knight Foundation y Green Family Foundation.
ReadCaribbean es un programa creado en colaboración con Sosyete Koukouy, Festival Literè Bocas y Read Jamaica. El programa cuenta con el apoyo de la Knight Foundation y la Green Family Foundation.