Poetry of Haitian Independence

"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"--

About the author

Doris Y. Kadish is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of French and Women's Studies at the University of Georgia. Deborah Jenson is Professor of Romance Studies and Global Health at Duke University. Norman R. Shapiro is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Distinguished Professor of Literary Translation at Wesleyan University and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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"--

Product details

• Authors: Doris Y. Kadish, Doris Y. Jenson Kadish
• Assisted by: Deborah Jenson (Editor), Jenson Deborah (Editor), Doris Y. Kadish (Editor), Kadish Doris Y. (Editor), Edwidge Danticat (Foreword), Norman R. Shapiro (Translation), Shapiro Norman R. (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2015
• EAN: 9780300195590
• ISBN: 978-0-300-19559-0
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Haiti, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Slavery and abolition of slavery, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Haiti