Dracius Suzanne - The Dancing Other - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: The Dancing Other takes readers to France and Martinique to reveal the struggles of people who belong both places but never quite feel at home in either. Suzanne Dracius tells the story of Rehvana a woman who feels she is too black to fit in when living in mainland France yet at the same time not dark - skinned enough to feel truly accepted in the Caribbean. Her sense of dislocation manifests itself at first in a turn to a mythical idea of Mother Africa; later she moves to Martinique with a new boyfriend and thinks she may have finally found her place but instead she is soon pregnant isolated and lonely. Soon her only reliable companion is her neighbor Ma Cidalise who regales her in Creole with supernatural tales of wizards. Rehvana meanwhile watches her dream of belonging fade as she continues to refuse to accept her multicultural heritage.
Title: The Dancing Other
Author(s): Dracius Suzanne
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Barcode: 9780857424792
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 12/15/2018
Series: The French List
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction