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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 189–197.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Christopher L. Miller Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 Christopher L. Miller HISTORY, HORROR, AND PLEASURE IN HAITI AND AFRICA Europeens qui ne connaissez pas cet affreux systeme [de l'esclavageJ, qui ne pouvez meme pas en concevoir l'idee, hommes sensibles, ne...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 199–222.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Doris L. Garraway Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 Doris L. Garraway TOWARD A LITERARY PSYCHOANALYSIS OF POSTCOLONIAL HAITI: DESIRE, VIOLENCE, AND THE MIMETIC CRISIS IN MARIE CHAUVET'S AMOUR Critics of Haitian writer Marie Chauvet's controversial novel, Amour...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (2): 213–229.
Published: 01 March 2006
... archipelagos" (6). These celebratory readings fall apart, however, when applied to the context of Haiti, the Caribbean's troubling, troubled, and often forgotten forefather. Contemporary Haitian narratives stand apart from those of the other islands, and indeed challenge much current Caribbeanist criticism...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 183–187.
Published: 01 May 2013
... geographic and historical span of francophone postcoloniality. The essays by Christopher L. Miller and Doris Garraway focus on Haiti in the wake of its independence in 1804 and during the dark years of the Duvalier dictatorship. Daho Djerbal explores Algerian historiography, and Gayatri Charkravorty Spivak...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 381–396.
Published: 01 May 2014
... is at once new, born of the earthquake, and an echo of the literary past, in particular, of Jacques-Stephen Alexis's classic work, L'Espace d'un cillement, which presents memorably another fallen woman, a prostitute whose exploited body stands as a symbol for Haiti and the broader Caribbean. Les Immortelles...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 590–600.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Thangam Ravindranathan [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 Rochambeau reading Haiti As if by tacit consensus over the years, many of us have ceased to say aloud the name of the beloved mansion...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 429–436.
Published: 01 May 2003
... have come to see, we cannot separate the enchanted object from the wreckage that accompanies it. Conde has understood and come to claim, as has no other writer in the French Caribbean-unless we return to Marie Chauvet in Haiti-the way intangibles such as love, spirit, or consciousness are thinglike...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 367–380.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., in 1804, of the independent black nation of Haiti. It also gave birth to a new kind of author: the colonial exile.1 Violently ousted from their privileged positions, white plantation-owners used their command of literacy to cast themselves as victims of the upheaval that had forced them to flee...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (1-2): 177–184.
Published: 01 January 2001
... est ne a Jacmel en 1926. Cette simple phrase contient deux elements importants. D'abord, Ie lieu: Jacmel. Jacmel est la capitale sprirituelle de Haiti, la ville magique qui hantera les tableaux du peintre Prefete-Duffault, qui sera l'heroine du roman de Jean Metellus, ]acmel au crepuscule. Elle est...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 575–582.
Published: 01 December 2023
... in later texts such as Fanon’s Les Damnés de la terre , whose prediction of the downfalls of liberated nations can be applied to both Haiti and Algeria 150 years apart. We can easily see a common reaction to colonialism from all corners of the globe, whether it is Ho Chi Minh in Indochina, Césaire...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 353–374.
Published: 01 May 2013
... en juin 1934 ; Ie romancier dahomeen Paul Hazoume l'est en novembre 1938 ; Leopold Sedar Senghor l'est en juin 19395 L'ecrivain communiste haltien Jacques Roumain est certifie en juin 1938 et il fondera trois ans plus tard l'Institut d'ethnologie de Port-au-Prince. Certes HaIti n'est pas une colonie...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 309–317.
Published: 01 May 2003
... l'affiche, mais j'ai vu briller au coin de ses yeux une terrible lueur. 16 Laferriere irreverently exploits the comic sexual parallels between a metallic/materialistic blond goddess and the black virgin of Haiti, both of whom are capable of inspiring hysteria among their devotees. In a doubling that echoes...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 329–343.
Published: 01 May 2003
... cette ville, tel d'une main geante, avait rejetes bien loin de ses avenues d'asphalte au glissent des automobiles luxueuses tels des yachts de lars anglais [ ]" Voir SaintAmand, Edris, Le Vent de janvier, ed. St-Amand, Port-au-Prince, HaIti, 1984, p. 6. 338 JEAN NORGAISSE quence que "Ie creur de Paris...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 517–523.
Published: 01 December 2023
....” As for race and poetry, it is certainly striking to compare the two collections that the Caribbean poet Paul Lochard (1835–1919) published in 1878 and 1901. In the first volume, while, more than once, Haiti is conjured up, and whereas the modern colonial jargon of race and racism has been implemented...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 601–608.
Published: 01 December 2023
... speak a common language, from Tunisia to Senegal to Haiti to Martinique to Quebec to Switzerland to Normandy to Occitanie and beyond. What, then, is the point of the “French” in “French and Francophone studies” when mainland France is already included in the category of Francophone ? While the OIF...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 457–464.
Published: 01 May 2003
... tensions as being all about hair! Crossing the grand old boulevard that is Eastern Parkway, we have moved from Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad, Guyana, to Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Romania, from Creole to Yiddish, from roti to challah, from conch to gefilte fish. You are at home in these shifting borderlands...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 437–450.
Published: 01 May 2003
.... When the Heathcliff figure Razye sets fire to the estate of his brotherin-law Aymeric de Linnseul (an enlightened colon), we see glimmers of Toussaint L'Ouverture bringing principles of the French Revolution horne to roost in Haiti. We also see how Creole families, with their painful social splits...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 391–404.
Published: 01 May 2003
... the aura of sanctity that surrounds Cesaire's poem. For if Conde ultimately remains a devoted defender of the Cahier, this standpoint is won through a laborious dismantling of these inherited and reigning pieties. Again and again Conde points to the mythic character of the poem's reception. Haiti...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 547–560.
Published: 01 May 2010
... mythical protagonist. According to Kathleen McNerney, the author "went to live in Spain under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco for more firsthand experience of day-to-day living under a tyrant" (71). She also mentions allusions to Venezuela's Juan Vicente Gomez, Haiti's "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Paraguay's...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 223–242.
Published: 01 May 2013
... the distant island of Saint Domingue (Haiti) would come to stand for a resonant form of revolution, the "Habitants" or "Originaires" of Saint Louis came to represent a particular form of imperial citizenship, combining French, Muslim and Senegambian civil, civic and political elements. Yet Saint Louis has...