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Poetry of Haitian Independence
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Artikel-Nr:
9780300195590
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.05.2015
Seiten:
360
Autor:
Deborah Jenson
Gewicht:
512 g
Format:
219x149x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Doris Y. Kadish is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of French and Women's Studies at the University of Georgia. Deborah Jenson is Professor of Romance Studies and Global Health at Duke University. Norman R. Shapiro is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Distinguished Professor of Literary Translation at Wesleyan University and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
"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"