Publication

2015 - Yale University Press, Connecticut

Language

English

Word Count

75,250 words, Guess

Page Count

301 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780300195590
  • Open LibraryOL26882047M

Classifications

  • DDC841.008/097294
  • LCCPQ3946.5.E5 P64 2015
  • LCCPQ3946.5.E5P64 2015

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"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Poetry of Haitian independenceYale University Press2015-01-01

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