Poetry of Haitian independence / edited by Doris Y. Kadish and Deborah Jenson ; translations by Norman R. Shapiro ; foreword by Edwidge Danticat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kadish, Doris Y., editor.

Jenson, Deborah, editor.

Shapiro, Norman R., translator.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Haitian poetry--Translations into English.

Haitian poetry.

Genre:

Translations.

Physical Description:

liii, 301 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

"This collection of deeply felt and powerfully moving Haitian poetry dating back to the first decades of the Caribbean island's independence from French colonial rule sheds a much needed light on an important and often neglected period in Haiti's literary history. Editors Kadish and Jenson have made a significant corpus of largely unknown poetry accessible to a wide audience for the first time with this essential bilingual volume of early-nineteenth-century verse that celebrates the authors' African origins, freedom from oppression, equality for all, and the legitimacy of the only modern country born from a slave revolt"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-291) and index.

ISBN:

9780300195590

0300195591

OCLC:

890614589