1. Poetry of Haitian Independence
- Author
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Shapiro, Norman R., Jenson, Deborah, Kadish, Doris Y., Shapiro, Norman R., Jenson, Deborah, and Kadish, Doris Y.
- Subjects
- Haitian poetry--Translations into English
- Abstract
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.
- Published
- 2015