• ISBN13: 9780857424792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: General Books
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publisher Imprint: Seagull
• Publication Date: June 17, 2018
• Pages: 256
• Original Price: INR 799.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 540 grams

The dancing other takes readers to France and Martinique to reveal the struggles of people who belong both places, but never quite feel at home in either. Suzanne dracius tells the story of Ravana, a woman who feels she is too black to fit in when living in mainland France, yet at the same time not dark-skinned enough to feel truly accepted in the Caribbean. Her sense of dislocation manifests itself at first in a turn to a mythical idea of mother Africa; later, she moves to Martinique with a new boyfriend and thinks she may have finally found her place—but instead she is soon pregnant, isolated and Lonely. Soon her only reliable companion is her neighbour, M A cidalise, who regales her in creole with supernatural tales of wizards. Rehvana, meanwhile, watches her dream of belonging fade, as she continues to refuse to accept her multicultural heritage.

Author and playwright Suzanne Dracius was born in Fort-de-France, Martinique and grew up in Sceaux, a suburb of Paris. She later returned to Martinique as a professor of classical literature and she has been a visiting professor at the University of Georgia and Ohio University.