Hacking Classical Forms in Haitian Literature

This is the first book to study how Haitian authors from independence to the present have adapted Greco-Roman material and harnessed it to Haiti's anti-colonial legacy. This fascinating study appeals to anyone interested in Haiti, Haitian literature and history, anti-colonial literature, or classical reception studies.

List of contents

Introduction; Historical Segue 1: 1804-1822: Saturn's Children; 1. 'We are all Greeks': President Boyer's Letter to Greek Revolutionaries (1822); 2. The 'Lake of Lies': Émeric Bergeaud's Stella (1859); 3. On Haiti and Black Egypt: Anténor Firmin's De l'Égalité des Races Humaines (1885); Historical Segue 2: From 19th c. Nationalism to 20th c. Populism; 4. A jumble of names: Fernand Hibbert's Romulus (1908); 5. Cleopatras and Sapphos of the Haitian Countryside: Jean Price-Mars, Ansi Parla l'Oncle (1928); 6. Sophocles becomes a Haitian Writer: Félix Morisseau-Leroy, Antigòn en Creole (1953); Historical Segue 3: Duvalierism and the Haitian Diaspora; 7. Antigòn in West Africa: Morisseau-Leroy's Wa Kreyon; 8. 'As though Picasso were Tagging with Spraypaint': Dany Laferrière's Le cri des oiseaux fous; 9. Edwidge Danticat and the Revolt against Silence - with Julia Nelson Hawkins; Coda.

About the author

Tom Hawkins, Associate Professor of Classics at Ohio State University (U.S.A), specializes in Greek literature and its legacies. He wrote Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire, serves on the Advisory Board of Eos, and is the faculty mentor for Black Students in Classics.

Product details

• Authors: Tom (The Ohio State University Hawkins, Hawkins Tom
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032310060
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3231006-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Classics and the Postcolonial
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, Caribbean islands, Classical texts, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Ancient Rome, Regional Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Ancient History, Regional / International studies, Classical history / classical civilisation, History of the Americas, Literature: history and criticism, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Ancient, classical and medieval texts