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Presentation

« To speak of Haiti and its literature differently one needs to ask oneself, through the words of its writers, what light the Haitian experience can shed on the French-speaking world, and perhaps on the world at large, in this day and age: how a civilisation – and one of which literature would be a major element – was founded on the grounds of an almost unthinkable historical event, namely a victorious revolution carried out in the late eighteenth century by men and women taken from Africa to America and enslaved; how, in the impasse that followed this revolution, these dispossessed, displaced, linguistically destabilised men and women ceaselessly spoke and wrote of a dream of inhabiting, thus demonstrating that literature often begins where speech becomes impossible. »
Yanick Lahens is a Haitian writer. Her novels have received numerous awards, including the Prix Femina in 2014. Her teaching at the Collège de France in 2018-2019 inaugurated the Annual Chair of French-Speaking Worlds, created in partnership with the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie.
ISBN
978-2-7226-0886-3
Publication date
Language
anglais
Translator
Liz Libbrecht
Price
7.99 €
Distribution
OpenEdition
Format
Édition numérique

Table of contents

Antoine Compagnon : Introduction

Liz Libbrecht : Haitian Literature: Urgency(ies) of Writing, Dream(s) of Inhabiting