Transition. 111, New narratives of Haiti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

IU Press Journals, I. U. Press, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haiti--In literature.

Haiti.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Bloomington, Indiana] : [Indiana University Press], [2015]

Summary:

The 111th issue of the magazine of Africa and the Diaspora, featuring fiction, poetry, art, and essays focused on the black world.Published three times per year by Indiana University Press for the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling ideas from and about the black world. Since its founding in Uganda in 1961, the magazine has kept apace of the rapid transformation of the African Diaspora and has remained a leading forum of intellectual debate.In issue 111, Transition focuses on "New Narratives of Haiti." Guest editors Laurent Dubois and Kaiama L. Glover have invited contributors to think about the world in ways that place Haiti at its center. Thought pieces by Madison Smartt Bell, Jonathan Katz, Gina Athena Ulysse and others, as well as translations of Franketienne, Lyonel Trouillot, and Michel-Rolph Trouillot, dispel trenchant cliches that have long plagued representations of Haiti in literature and scholarship. This issue also includes Jamaica Kincaid's poignant memories of a brother lost to AIDS, and a scholar's chance discovery of cultural (and genealogical?) links between Cuba and Sierra Leone. Exceptional poetry, fiction, and review essays also take us beyond Haiti to San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, Nairobi, and Renaissance Europe.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; New Narratives of Haiti; Depi m soti nan Ginen; Introduction; On the Sounds of Haiti; ""My Spirit is There""; Blood and Ink; Vodou, History, and New Narratives; Five Poems; The Myth of the Exiled Writer; From Dezafi and Les Affres d'un défi; From Ti difé boulé sou istoua Ayiti; Mumbo Gumbo; VooDooDoll: What if Haïti were a Woman; Glossary of Haitian Creole and French Terms; ""I Make Them Call Him 'Uncle'""; Josefa Diago and the Origins of Cuba's Gangá Traditions; Ipanema; Watermelon Song; Presence of Mind; Benga Benga

The Problem of Citizenship, the Question of Crime, and the Origins of the Civil Rights MovementNotes on Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed April 17, 2015).

ISBN:

9780253018649

0253018641

OCLC:

908071808