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Ecrire en pays assiégé – Haïti – Writing under Siege

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Jacques Stephen Alexis, Jacques Roumain, René Depestre, Marie Chauvet, Frankétienne, J. J. Dominique, Jean Métellus, Dany Laferrière, Yanick Lahens, Lyonel Trouillot et Edwidge Danticat sont quelqu...
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Jacques Stephen Alexis, Jacques Roumain, René Depestre, Marie Chauvet, Frankétienne, J. J. Dominique, Jean Métellus, Dany Laferrière, Yanick Lahens, Lyonel Trouillot et Edwidge Danticat sont quelques-uns des écrivains haïtiens dont l’écriture est marquée par le contexte politique d’Haïti. Les régimes dictatoriaux ont, en effet, affecté l’espace créatif, imposant un certain nombre de contraintes auxquelles ces écrivains, chacun à leur manière, ont ingénieusement riposté et réagi. Ce recueil d’essais critiques et d’entretiens tente d’illustrer et d’analyser comment les oeuvres romanesques, poétiques et théâtrales s’accommodent du « pays assiégé » et déploient des stratégies linguistiques et formelles permettant de transcender les forces d’oppression.

Jacques Stephen Alexis, Jacques Roumain, René Depestre, Marie Chauvet, Frankétienne, J. J. Dominique, Jean Métellus, Dany Laferrière, Yanick Lahens, Lyonel Trouillot and Edwidge Danticat are some of the Haitian writers whose writing is marked by Haiti’s political history. Successive dictatorships have indeed shaped Haiti's creative space, imposing constraints that the authors ingeniously counteract and against which they all react. This collection of essays and interviews illustrates and analyzes the various ways in which the fictional, poetic and theatrical texts transcend the forces of oppression through linguistic and formal strategies.
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Price: $185.00
Pages: 545
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Francopolyphonies
Publication Date: 01 January 2004
ISBN: 9789042017535
Format: Paperback
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”a useful reference guide to Haitian authors, works, and movements. It also indicates a number of fertile areas for future research. This anthology would be of particular interest to a professor preparing a course on Haitian literature. … the very fact of its publication — for which Editions Rodopi are to be congratulated— is an important contribution to Haitian studies. I urge readers of this review to ask their university libraries to purchase this volume.” in: Women in French