Conversations in Atlantic Theory • Kaiama L. Glover on 'A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being'

'This discussion is with Kaiama L. Glover, she is an Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies and Faculty Director of the Digital Humanities Center at Barnard College at Columbia University. She has written extensively about Caribbean literature in works such as Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (2010), and she is the prize-winning translator of several works of prose fiction and non-fiction. Her current project, an intellectual biography titled For the Love of Revolution: René Depestre and the Poetics of a Radical Life. has been supported by fellowships at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris and the New York Public Library Cullman Center.  In this conversation, we discuss A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being published by Duke University Press in 2021. Our conversation here focuses on championing unruly female protagonists in selected Caribbean literary works and expanding modes of theorization.'