Marie-Celie Agnant, ‘Writing from the Silence’

Marie-Celie Agnant is a Haitian-Quebecois author who writes about the diasporic experience. From Agnant: “My presentation which includes readings of extracts of some of my prose and also poetry, is a testimony in which I expose what I consider as a very personal vision of my work as a writer, the underlying motives of this creative act, as well as the various legacies which intervene in my writing process. Among those: Silence. It is out of that silence, from the silence and against that silence that I write, and from that place where silence becomes violence. By so doing I also try to question the ways of representation of the political, historical and literary discourse, as well as the boundaries dictated by fiction.”

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