Hacking Classical Forms in Haitian Literature

Hacking Classical Forms in Haitian Literature

Hawkins, Tom

Taylor & Francis Ltd

01/2025

264

Mole

9781032310060

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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': Emeric Bergeaud's Stella (1859); 3. On Haiti and Black Egypt: Antenor Firmin's De l'Egalite 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: Felix Morisseau-Leroy, Antigon en Creole (1953); Historical Segue 3: Duvalierism and the Haitian Diaspora; 7. Antigon in West Africa: Morisseau-Leroy's Wa Kreyon; 8. 'As though Picasso were Tagging with Spraypaint': Dany Laferriere's Le cri des oiseaux fous; 9. Edwidge Danticat and the Revolt against Silence - with Julia Nelson Hawkins; Coda.
Classical Reception Studies;Haitian literature;Caribbean literature;Greco-Roman literature;Classical reception;Ancient Mediterranean cultures;Classics and postcolonialism;Postcolonial;Anti-colonial;Modern Haitian literature;Caribbean culture;Haitian history;Anti-colonial literature;Modern Haitian history;Modern Caribbean history;Ancient Greece;Papa Doc;Duvalier;Young Man;Haitian Revolution;Greco Roman Antiquity;Creole Literature;Declaration Of Independence;Le Cri;Baby Doc;Jean Price Mars;Ainsi Parla;Jean Jacques Dessalines;Creon;Edwidge Danticat;8th Century BCE;Victor Schoelcher;Felix;Greco Roman Past;Tonton Macoute;Danticat's Oeuvre;Human Suffering