Hacking Classical Forms in Haitian Literature

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Series Editors Preface
Epigraph
Introduction
Historical Segue 1 1804–1822: Saturn’s Children
	1 ‘We Are All Greeks’: President Boyer’s Letter to Greek Revolutionaries (1822)
	2 The ‘Lake of Lies’: Émeric Bergeaud’s Stella (1859)
	3 On Haiti and Black Egypt: Anténor Firmin’s De l’Égalité des Races Humaines (1885)
Historical Segue 2 From 19th c. Nationalism to 20th c. Populism
	4 A Jumble of Names: Fernand Hibbert’s Romulus (1908)
	5 Cleopatras and Sapphos of the Haitian Countryside: Jean Price-Mars, Ansi Parla l’Oncle (1928)
	6 Sophocles becomes a Haitian Writer: Félix Morisseau-Leroy, Antigòn en Creole (1953)
Historical Segue 3 Duvalierism and the Haitian Diaspora
	7 Antigòn in West Africa: Morisseau-Leroy’s Wa Kreyon (1978)
	8 ‘As though Picasso were Tagging with Spraypaint’: Dany Laferrière’s Le cri des oiseaux fous (2000)
	9 The Revolt against Silence: Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones (1998) with Julia Nelson Hawkins
Coda
Bibliography
Index