It has been more than 40 years since Frankétienne published his first collections of poems, and exactly 40 years since the first book that garnered him some critical reception, Mûr à crever, was published. 1968 was also the...
In Écrire en pays assiégé: Haiti: Writing under Siege, Marie-Agnès Sourieau and Kathleen Balutansky propose that Haitian literature, perpetually engagée, has long served as "the locus for social criticism and activism under...
Published as:Past, Mariana, and Natalie M. Léger, eds. Toussaint Louverture: Repensar un Icono. Translated by David González and Jorge Luis Hernández. Santiago de Cuba: Editorial del Caribe, 2015. For more information on the...
In “Trans-Atlantic Interrogation: Fabienne Pasquet’s La deuxième mort de Toussaint Louverture', Mariana Past situates the Haitian-Swiss novelist’s understudied narrative within the context of Caribbean letters and the Haitian...
Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s first book, Ti difé boulé sou istoua Ayiti Stirring the Pot of Haitian History, exposes the foundational role of Haitian Vodou and the Kreyòl language in Haiti’s Revolution (1791-1804). The...