Presentation
À la recherche d’une nouvelle Cité des Dames? Port-au-Prince au féminin dans Les Villages de Dieu d’Emmelie Prophète (In Search of a New Book of the City of Ladies? A Female Port-au-Prince in God’s Villages by Emmelie Prophète)
39th Annual 20th and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
(2022)
Abstract
This talk examines the portrayal of the Haitian capital as described by the novel’s female protagonist who, amidst the city’s harsh living conditions and rising gang violence, begins to make a name for herself by way of her presence on social media.
Disciplines
Publication Date
March 25, 2022
Location
Pittsburgh, PA
Comments
Roundtable presentation: Emmelie Prophète, citadine port-au-princienne
Citation Information
Jason Herbeck. "À la recherche d’une nouvelle Cité des Dames? Port-au-Prince au féminin dans Les Villages de Dieu d’Emmelie Prophète (In Search of a New Book of the City of Ladies? A Female Port-au-Prince in God’s Villages by Emmelie Prophète)" 39th Annual 20th and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium (2022) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jason_herbeck/59/