Poetry of Haitian independence
By: edited by Doris Y. Kadish, Deborah Jenson ; translated by Norman R. Shapiro ; foreword by Edwidge Danticat
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780300195590
Subjects: POETRY / Caribbean & Latin American; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery; Haitian poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American; Translations into English; HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.