Refugee women and the work of care in Évelyne Trouillot’s Memory at Bay

• Published in: Cultural dynamics Vol. 30; no. 1-2; pp. 19 - 34
• Main Author: Shemak, April
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.02.2018; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Diaspora; Dictators; Dictatorship; Females; Memory; Nurses; Refugees; Trauma; Haiti; African Diaspora; care work; refugee women

This article examines the idea of home in relation to care work performed by refugee women of the African Diaspora as portrayed in Évelyne Trouillot’s post-dictatorship novel Memory at Bay (2015) (published in French as La mémoire aux abois (2010). Memory at Bay depicts care work as the labor involv...