Robyn Cope, assistant professor of romance languages and literatures, presented at the 27th Annual Haitian Studies Association Conference, “Haiti in the Global Environment: Presence, Representations, and Performances,” at the University of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, on Oct. 24. Leading Haiti scholars and activists from a wide range of disciplines gathered in Montreal, home to one of the largest Haitian Diaspora communities in the world, to consider Haiti both within and beyond its borders. Cope’s presentation, “Haiti in the World’s Eyes: Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light,” demonstrated how Danticat’s latest novel’s content and structure work together to balance singularity and universal human experience in a way that urges the World not only to see Haiti but also to see itself in Haiti.
Robyn Cope
October 30, 2015