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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.

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Author:   Marlene L. Daut (Yale University) ,  Kaiama L. Glover (Yale University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009485111

ISBN 10:   1009485113
Pages:   532
Publication Date:   21 November 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

1. Editor's Introduction Marlene L. Daut and Kaiama L. Glover; 2. Literature as Loot: Jean Fouchard's Search for the Roots of Haitian Culture Laurent Dubois; 3. Theatre in Early Independent Haiti Grégory Pierrot; 4. 'So All the World May Know it': The Literary Value of Nineteenth-Century Haitian Song and Opera Henry Stoll; 5. Civil War, 'guerre de plume,' and the Emergence of Early Haitian Periodical Culture Chelsea Stieber; 6. History, Politics, and Revolutionary Romanticism in Charles Hérard-Dumesles's Voyage dans le nord d'Hayti (1824) and the anonymously published L'Haïtiade (ca. 1826) Marlene L. Daut; 7. The Cénacle and the Sacred: Reading Vodou in Haitian Romanticism Mary Grace Albanese; 8. Émeric Bergeaud's Stella: A Discrepant or Contrapuntal Allegorical Reading of the Haitian Revolution Claudy Delné; 9. The Predicament of Civilization: Revisiting Late-Nineteenth-Century Haitian Novels Bastien Craipain; 10. The Politics of Disenchantment: Haitian Poetry from 1870 to 1915 Amy Lynelle; 11. Haitian Poetry in Creole: The Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Century Works Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo; 12. Some Causes of the Underdevelopment of Haiti's Creole-Language Literature Frenand Léger; 13. Performing Rebellion and Re-Membering Haiti's Past and Present in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Theater Rachel Douglas; 14. Haitian Writers and the Forging of a National Voice through Periodicals in the Twentieth Century Linsey Sainte-Claire; 15. Arrêtez le monde! Je veux rêver: Literature as Politics on Radio Haïti-Inter Laura Wagner; 16. Occupation-era literature in Haiti Nadève Ménard; 17. Haitian Literature and the Dominican Republic Sophie Maríñez; 18. Marxism and the Moun Andeyo Valerie Kaussen; 19. Jacques Roumain, from Indigenism to Nationalism Yves Chemla; 20. For a History of the Novel of Haitian Tradition, 1901–1961 Jean Jonassaint; 21. Exile and Twentieth-century Haitian Writing Martin Munro; 22. The Zonbi as Episteme in Haitian Prose Fiction Kaiama L. Glover; 23. Living Vodou: Representations of Power and Resistance in René Depestre's Un Arc-en-ciel pour l'Occident chrétien Cécile Accilien; 24. Papa Loko's 'dire poétique,' in Twenty-First Century Port-au-Prince-based Haitian Poetry Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken; 25. Partisan Politics and Twentieth Century Fictions of the Haitian Revolution Natalie Léger; 26. Haitian Women's Fiction Marie-Denise Shelton; 27. Haitian Uses of the Erotic: Feminist Genealogies and Geographies Régine Michelle Jean-Charles; 28. Archiving Narratives of Maternal Loss and Queer Life in Haitian Fiction in the Wake of the 2010 Earthquake Nathan Dize; Index.

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Marlene L. Daut is a professor of French and African American Studies at Yale University, and the author of Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) and Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), co-winner of the 2018 Avant-Garde Book Prize from the Haitian Studies Association. Kaiama L. Glover is a professor of African American Studies and French at Yale University. She is the author of A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being (2021) and Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (2010). She is the founding co-editor of archipelagos | a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, and a prize-winning translator of Haitian prose fiction.

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