A history of Haitian literature / edited by Marlene L. Daut, and Kaiama L. Glover.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daut, Marlene L., editor.

Glover, Kaiama L., 1972- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haitian literature--History and criticism.

Haitian literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 537 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"From nineteenth-century antislavery pamphleteering to accounts of ecological catastrophe in twenty-first-century fiction, Haitian literature has resounded across the globe since the nation's revolutionaries declared independence in 1804. Starting with pre-revolutionary writing, including the emergence of Haitian Creole letters, extending to the long, largely francophone nineteenth century, and concluding with present-day Haitian writing in the English language, A History of Haitian Literature presents the political, cultural, and historical frameworks necessary to comprehend Haiti's vast literary output. Whether writing in Haiti or its wide-ranging diasporas, Haitian authors have boldly contributed to pressing conversations in global letters while reflecting Haiti's unique cultural and historical experiences. Considering an expansive array of poets, playwrights, and novelists - such as Baron de Vastey, Juste Chanlatte, Demesvar Delorme, Edwidge Danticat, René Depestre, Kettly Mars, Dany Laferrière, and Évelyne Trouillot - the contributors to this volume offer a fresh examination of a richly polyglot, transnational literary tradition that spans more than two centuries"-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Editors' Introduction / Marlene L. Daut & Kaiama L. Glover

Literature as Loot : Jean Fouchard's Search for the Roots of Haitian Culture / Laurent Dubois

Theater in Early Independent Haiti / Grégory Pierrot

"So all the world may know it" : The Literary Value of Nineteenth-Century Haitian Song and Opera / Henry Stoll

Civil War, Guerre de Plume, and the Emergence of Early Haitian Periodical Culture / Chelsea Stieber

History, Politics, and Revolutionary Romanticism in Charles Hérard-Dumesle's Voyage dans le nord d'Hayti (1824) and the Anonymously Published L'Haïtiade (ca. 1826) / Marlene L. Daut

The Cénacle and the Sacred : Reading Vodou in Haitian Romanticism / Mary Grace Albanese

Émeric Bergeaud's Stella : A Discrepant or Contrapuntal Allegorical Reading of the Haitian Revolution / Claudy Delné

The Predicament of Civilization : Revisiting Late Nineteenth-Century Haitian Novels / Bastien Craipain

The Politics of Disenchantment : Haitian Poetry from 1870 to 1915 / Amy Lynelle

Haitian Poetry in Creole : The Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Works / Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo

Some Causes of the Underdevelopment of Haiti's Creole-Language Literature / Frenand Léger

Performing Rebellion and Re-membering Haiti's Past and Present in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Theater / Rachel Douglas

Haitian Writers and the Forging of a National Voice through Periodicals in the Twentieth Century / Linsey Sainte-Claire

"Arrêtez le monde! Je veux rêver" : Literature as Politics on Radio Haïti-Inter / Laura Wagner

Occupation-Era Literature in Haiti / Nadève Ménard

Haitian Literature and the Dominican Republic / Sophie Maríñez

Marxism and the Moun Andeyo / Valerie Kaussen

Jacques Roumain, from Indigenism to Nationalism / Yves Chemla

For a History of the Novel of Haitian Tradition: 1901-61 / Jean Jonassaint

Exile and Twentieth-Century Haitian Writing / Martin Munro

The Zonbi as Episteme in Haitian Prose Fiction / Kaiama L. Glover

Living Vodou : Representations of Power and Resistance in René Depestre's Un arc-en-ciel pour l'occident chrétien / Cécile Accilien

Papa Loko's Dire Poétique in Twenty-First-Century Port-au-Prince-Based Haitian Poetry / Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken

Partisan Politics and Twentieth-Century Fictions of the Haitian Revolution / Natalie M. Léger

Haitian Women's Fiction / Marie-Denise Shelton

Haitian Uses of the Erotic : Feminist Genealogies and Geographies / Régine Michelle Jean-Charles

Archiving Narratives of Maternal Loss and Queer Life in Haitian Fiction in the Wake of the 2010 Earthquake / Nathan H. Dize.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: History of Haitian Literature.

ISBN:

1009485113

9781009485111

OCLC:

1427239416

Publisher Number:

CIPO000130883