Corine Stofle is a PhD candidate in the French Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her interests include Franco-Caribbean literatures and matters of humor and race.
Corine Stofle
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Writing on Public Books
Spiralism: Haiti’s Long-Lost Poetics of Protest
Reading Frankétienne’s Ready to Burst is eerily similar to contemplating a wound that won’t heal, inspiring trepidation at what might soon—or potentially worse, not ever—change. Such was my experience of following the novel’s protagonists, Raynand and Paulin, as they attempt to make modest yet always ill-fated bids for basic human happiness in a Haiti in […]
