Marie Vieux-Chauvet è stata un'autrice haitiana le cui opere esplorano spesso le complesse relazioni tra individui e società. La sua prosa è nota per la sua intensità e la sua capacità di addentrarsi nelle profondità della psiche umana. Attraverso le sue narrazioni, rivela le tensioni tra il desiderio personale e i vincoli sociali. La sua scrittura si distingue per il suo linguaggio potente e la sua narrazione avvincente.
Kaiama L. Glover examines Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean literature whose female protagonists enact practices of freedom that privilege the self, challenge the prioritization of the community over the individual, and refuse masculinist discourses of postcolonial nation building.
Dance on the Volcano tells the story of two sisters growing up during the Haitian Revolution in a culture that swings heavily between decadence and poverty, sensuality and depravity. One sister, because of her singing ability, is able to enter into the white colonial society otherwise generally off limits to people of color. Closely examining a society sagging under the white supremacy of the French colonist rulers, Dance on the Volcano is one of only novels to closely depict the seeds and fruition of the Haitian Revolution, tracking an elaborate hierarchy of skin color and class through the experiences of two young women. It is a story about hatred and fear, love and loss, and the complex tensions between colonizer and colonized, masterfully translated by Kaiama L. Glover.