This volume is a welcome and long-overdue tribute to a prolific and distinguished writing career. Adeptly conceived and thoughtfully assembled, the collection takes the reader on an illuminating journey from Pineau’s first published story, the winning entry in a 1986 writing competition, to her arresting 2021 novel dramatizing the life of Guadeloupean dancer Adrienne Fidelin. Going well beyond the usual corpus of the writer’s best-known works, the contributors pay homage to the remarkable breadth of Pineau’s oeuvre, offering a prismatic reading of Black women’s resistance across history and genre. Highly recommended for all scholars and teachers of Caribbean women’s literature.

Dawn Fulton, Smith College

Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau’s Works will undoubtedly become an essential reference. Lisa Connell and Delphine Gras have gathered well-researched and compelling chapters which reveal the multifaceted ways French Caribbean women wield power and express their agency within oppressive structures of domination. Seven thought-provoking contributions allow us to travel often less trodden paths that reveal the intricate ways resistance expresses itself in postcolonial contexts.

Jacqueline Couti, Rice University

Much anticipated, this volume offers a rich critical journey into Gisèle Pineau’s body of work. Readers will experience a captivating hiatus into the intersectional identities and negotiations of characters whose praxis of pain and/or pleasure is unearthed within robust studies that expose their strategies of survival. Pineau’s smearing of socio-cultural conventions is brilliantly contextualized with a refreshing boldness that offers better understanding of the emergence of an Afra Caribbean writing calling for the embodied and Reimagined Resistance of our “other” presence in the world, memory, and Herstory.

Gladys M. Francis, Howard University