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Available to readers for the first time, Aimé Césaire's three-act drama . . . . . . And the Dogs Were Silent-written during the Vichy regime in Martinique in 1943 and lost until 2008-dramatizes the Haitian Revolution and the rise and fall of Toussaint Louverture as its heroic leader. This bilingual English and French edition stands apart from Césaire's more widely known 1946 closet drama. Following the slave revolts that sparked the revolution, Louverture arrives as both prophet and poet, general and visionary. With striking dramatic technique, Césaire retells the revolution in poignant encounters between rebels and colonial forces, guided by a prophetic chorus and Louverture's steady ethical and political vision. In the last act, we reach the hero's betrayal, his imprisonment, and his last stand against the lures of compromise. Césaire's masterwork is a strikingly beautiful and brutal indictment of colonial cruelty and an unabashed celebration of Black rebellion and victory.
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Foreword / Brent Hayes Edwards vii
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction: The Making and Remaking of . . . . . .
Et les chiens se taisaient / Alex Gil 1
. . . . . . And the Dogs Were Silent 43
. . . . . . Et les chiens se taisaient 169
Bibliography 291
Info autore
Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) was a Martinican poet, critic, essayist, playwright, and statesman; a founder of the Negritude movement; and one of the most influential Francophone Caribbean intellectuals of the twentieth century. He is the author of
Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier d’un retour au pays natal, also published by Duke University Press.
Alex Gil is Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University.
Brent Hayes Edwards is Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
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This bilingual English and French edition of Aimé Césaire’s three act drama .....And the Dogs Were Silent—written in 1943 and lost until 2008—dramatizes the Haitian Revolution and the rise of Toussaint Louverture as its heroic leader.
