Download or read book Cruel Destiny and the White Negress: Two Novels by Cléante Desgraves Valcin written by Cléante D. Valcin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cruel Destiny (Cruelle Destinée) and The White Negress (La Blanche Négresse) are the first and second novels published by a Haitian woman, Cléante Valcin. Translated to English now for the first time by Jeanne Jégousso, these novels offer an incisive perspective on the fate, romance, and reversals of characters in Haiti, the Pearl of the Antilles, during the 1920s and 1930s.