...Jeannine Murray-Román In the early 1990s, chaos theory captured the imagination of Caribbean writers by offering a new approach to interpreting scientific data. In its analysis of Edouard Glissant's Poétique de la Relation alongside Antonio Benítez-Rojo's introduction to The Repeating Island...

...Mary Gallagher Milan Kundera's claims In L'Art du roman (1986) that the European novel subsumes the American novel are implicitly contradicted by Édouard Glissant's study of `le roman des Amériques' in Le Discours antillais (1981). In Les Testaments trahis (1993), although Kundera relativizes...

... roman au théâtre, du dialogue et du récit au monologue, de l'écriture à la mise en voix et en mouvement par la mise en scène hybride de Vincent Goethals qui explore les frontières mouvantes entres les arts.). Small Axe, Inc. 2009 Haïti en scène! Renaissance de la trilogie romanesque...

... volumes extensively document the complex and contentious path of the post-Duvalier era in Haitian politics. These volumes together describe the invention of a post-authoritarian populist political sequence, one that after 1990 coalesced around the charismatic leadership of a previously unknown Roman...

...Roger Toumson Né à la Martinique, le 21 septembre1928, mort à Paris, le 03 février 2011, Edouard Glissant lègue à la postérité une œuvre multiforme. Auteur fécond, puissamment inspiré, il s'est illustré dans les genres les plus divers, poésie, roman, théâtre, nouvelles, essais, à chaque étape de...

... to her politics and poetics. In Colère , Chauvet writes the Haitian public sphere's disarticulation under Duvalierism as a roman-théâtre , a hybrid genre embedding dramatic conventions into the novel form. This formal innovation gives Chauvet's writing a unique critical purchase, allowing the author...

..., Bérard Cénatus et Jean-Claude Fignolé 6 . Cette esthétique contribua à développer dans le roman haïtien une narration non linéaire, des personnages fuyants et un univers romanesque, en somme, qui reproduisait le chaos du monde, des Caraïbes et d’Haïti. Mûr à crever marqua à la fin des années 1960...

... will descend into the arena reluctantly, but emboldened by my heart and guided by the lessons of my Masters. It is in their own principles that I will find the weapons with which I will fight them.” 39 Given the author's faux combat , the imagery of gladiators fighting in the Roman arena seems deceptive...

...) oddly anachronistic diatribe against the nouveau roman, deconstruction, and other textualist movements of the 1950s through 1970s. Glissant, however, is of all the signatories of the manifesto the one whose ongoing experiments in literary language are closest to those...

... l'élite citadine, que l'auteur du roman Dezafi a essayé d'exprimer un certain nombre de concepts, d'émotions et de sensations pratiquement intraduisibles en français.” 21 Such characterizations play into the idea of a Haitian exceptionalism, touted by historians, political scientists, and journalists...

... from without France’s national borders1—belated recognition, it argues, of the fact that so-called francophone writers have provided the major source of innovation and vitality in 1 American Jonathan Little received the Prix Goncourt and Grand prix du roman de l’Académie française; the Prix...

...,” Interculturel Francophonies , no. 22 (November–December 2012): 115–27. For more on Glissant's concept of Tout-monde , see Edouard Glissant, Toutmonde: Roman (Paris: Gallimard, 1993), and Traité du Tout-monde (Paris: Gallimard, 1997). 7 I would like to thank Samia Kassab-Charfi from the Université de...

... uncertainty regarding slavery that dates back to Roman times. Roman law clearly understood the slave to be a human, albeit a human of low status. 40 At the same time, the third-century Lex Aquilia and the sixth-century Digest of Justinian upheld the principle that placed “a man's four-footed animals...

... was an attempt at the roman-monde, but I got it all wrong. It’s true that it did allow me to explore what this roman-monde might be, but I now think it’s a mistake to attempt this form simply by indulging in excess. It’s equally possible to envisage a roman-monde that would be simple, measured, even...

... the “barbarians” and nonbelievers of the total power of the Roman Apostolic Church. Embodying this inheritance, contemporary artists in Latin America and the Carib- bean use this visual vocabulary as a source of evocative power. In the Caribbean region, Mario Benjamin is among those artists who exploit...

... (the Rape of the Sabines, the Rape of Lucretia) it is sexual violence that sets the story in motion: Romulus and his twin brother Remus were born when Mars, the Roman god of war, raped the virgin Vestal Rhea Silvia. 33 “The god of sacred boundaries in Roman religion was Silvanus , deity of the outlying...

..., but if there is something that AfroLatinidad and negro speak to, it is what is mentioned by Juan Flores and Miriam Jimeńez Romań in their edited volume The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States , that the fact of Blackness (as invoked by Frantz Fanon) and experience are central...

... the laws or anybody said. Hardly anyone—from the Roman Catholic pope to the prime ministers, politicians, dons, and musicians—escaped comment. The walls told stories to a larger audience, including the poor and unintelligent, and a far larger number of people in the community were reached than by any...

... their forced embrace of Christianity, then this influence was both deepened and expanded as they settled into their new Southern Caribbean context. The early influence of Yoruba cosmology and spiritual practice would be combined with elements of Kabbalism, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Spiritism, Hinduism...