A History of Haitian Literature

Marlene L. Daut is a professor of French and African American Studies at Yale University, and the author of Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) and Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), co-winner of the 2018 Avant-Garde Book Prize from the Haitian Studies Association. Kaiama L. Glover is a professor of African American Studies and French at Yale University. She is the author of A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being (2021) and Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (2010). She is the founding co-editor of archipelagos | a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, and a prize-winning translator of Haitian prose fiction.

• 1. Editor's Introduction Marlene L. Daut and Kaiama L. Glover; 2. Literature as Loot: Jean Fouchard's Search for the Roots of Haitian Culture Laurent Dubois; 3. Theatre in Early Independent Haiti Grégory Pierrot; 4. 'So All the World May Know it': The Literary Value of Nineteenth-Century Haitian Song and Opera Henry Stoll; 5. Civil War, 'guerre de plume,' and the Emergence of Early Haitian Periodical Culture Chelsea Stieber; 6. History, Politics, and Revolutionary Romanticism in Charles Hérard-Dumesles's Voyage dans le nord d'Hayti (1824) and the anonymously published L'Haïtiade (ca. 1826) Marlene L. Daut; 7. The Cénacle and the Sacred: Reading Vodou in Haitian Romanticism Mary Grace Albanese; 8. Émeric Bergeaud's Stella: A Discrepant or Contrapuntal Allegorical Reading of the Haitian Revolution Claudy Delné; 9. The Predicament of Civilization: Revisiting Late-Nineteenth-Century Haitian Novels Bastien Craipain; 10. The Politics of Disenchantment: Haitian Poetry from 1870 to 1915 Amy Lynelle; 11. Haitian Poetry in Creole: The Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Century Works Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo; 12. Some Causes of the Underdevelopment of Haiti's Creole-Language Literature Frenand Léger; 13. Performing Rebellion and Re-Membering Haiti's Past and Present in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Theater Rachel Douglas; 14. Haitian Writers and the Forging of a National Voice through Periodicals in the Twentieth Century Linsey Sainte-Claire; 15. Arrêtez le monde! Je veux rêver: Literature as Politics on Radio Haïti-Inter Laura Wagner; 16. Occupation-era literature in Haiti Nadève Ménard; 17. Haitian Literature and the Dominican Republic Sophie Maríñez; 18. Marxism and the Moun Andeyo Valerie Kaussen; 19. Jacques Roumain, from Indigenism to Nationalism Yves Chemla; 20. For a History of the Novel of Haitian Tradition, 1901–1961 Jean Jonassaint; 21. Exile and Twentieth-century Haitian Writing Martin Munro; 22. The Zonbi as Episteme in Haitian Prose Fiction Kaiama L. Glover; 23. Living Vodou: Representations of Power and Resistance in René Depestre's Un Arc-en-ciel pour l'Occident chrétien Cécile Accilien; 24. Papa Loko's 'dire poétique,' in Twenty-First Century Port-au-Prince-based Haitian Poetry Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken; 25. Partisan Politics and Twentieth Century Fictions of the Haitian Revolution Natalie Léger; 26. Haitian Women's Fiction Marie-Denise Shelton; 27. Haitian Uses of the Erotic: Feminist Genealogies and Geographies Régine Michelle Jean-Charles; 28. Archiving Narratives of Maternal Loss and Queer Life in Haitian Fiction in the Wake of the 2010 Earthquake Nathan Dize; Index.

'This volume spans Haitian literature from postrevolutionary pamphlets to 20th-century poetry, plays, and prose, exploring the literature that developed in and about Haiti … A History of Haitian Literature also skillfully centers women, the environment, identity, Marxism, and the Creole language. To ground the literature visually, the volume includes several archival images and historical manuscripts that reflect Haiti's literary tradition … Recommended.' D. M. Jarrett, Choice