Description
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, Rene Depestre, Kettly Mars, Dany Laferriere, and Evelyne Trouillot - the contributors to this volume offer a fresh examination of a richly polyglot, transnational literary tradition that spans more than two centuries.
This is the first comprehensive history of Haitian literature published in the English language.
About the Author
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.
Book Information
ISBN 9781009485111
Author Marlene L. Daut
Format Hardback
Page Count 554
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 998g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm
This is the first comprehensive history of Haitian literature published in the English language.
About the Author
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.
Book Information
ISBN 9781009485111
Author Marlene L. Daut
Format Hardback
Page Count 554
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 998g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm
