Masters of the Dew

Masters of the Dew PDF Author: Jacques Roumain
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435987459
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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This outstanding Haitian novel tells of Manuel's struggle to keep his little community from starvation during drought.

Masters of the Dew

Masters of the Dew PDF Author: Jacques Roumain
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435987459
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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This outstanding Haitian novel tells of Manuel's struggle to keep his little community from starvation during drought.

When the Tom-tom Beats

When the Tom-tom Beats PDF Author: Jacques Roumain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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A comprehensive bilingual selection of prose and [poetry] by Haiti's great poet, revolutionary and man of letters, Jacques Roumain. [literature][multi-cultural]

Jacques Roumain

Jacques Roumain PDF Author: Patti M. Marxsen
Publisher: Caribbean Studies Press
ISBN: 9781643820118
Category : Authors, Haitian
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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"This ... biography ... of Haitian public intellectual and writer, Jacques Roumain (1907-1944), explores his brief life within the context of his times -- the American Occupation of Haiti, the rise of fascism in Europe, racism in the U.S., and Marxism. An articulate witness and activist, Roumain exposed injustice through poetry, essays, novels, and short fiction. His political thought emerges through these works, several of which are included here in English translation" -- Publisher.

Haiti Noir 2

Haiti Noir 2 PDF Author: Edwidge Danticat
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617752045
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Stories of crime and corruption set in this Caribbean country by Edwidge Danticat, Roxane Gay, Dany Laferrière, and more. These darkly suspenseful stories offer a deeper and more nuanced look at a nation that has been plagued by poverty, political upheaval, and natural disaster, yet endures even through the bleakest times. Filled with tough characters and twisting plots, they reveal the multitude of human stories that comprise the heart of Haiti. Classic stories by Danielle Legros Georges, Jacques Roumain, Ida Faubert, Jacques-Stephen Alexis, Jan J. Dominique, Paulette Poujol Oriol, Lyonel Trouillot, Emmelie Prophète, Ben Fountain, Dany Laferrière, Georges Anglade, Edwidge Danticat, Michèle Voltaire Marcelin, Èzili Dantò, Marie-Hélène Laforest, Nick Stone, Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell, Myriam J.A. Chancey, and Roxane Gay. “Skillfully uses a popular genre to help us better understand an often frustratingly complex and indecipherable society.” —The Miami Herald “Presents an excellent array of writers, primarily Haitian, whose graphic descriptions portray a country ravaged by corruption, crime, and mystery. . . . A must read for everyone.” —The Caribbean Writer

Thinking in Public

Thinking in Public PDF Author: Celucien L. Joseph
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498203825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 623

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Thinking in Public provides a probing and provocative meditation on the intellectual life and legacy of Jacques Roumain. As a work of intellectual history, the book investigates the intersections of religious ideas, secular humanism, and development within the framework of Roumain's public intellectualism and cultural criticism embodied in his prolific writings. The book provides a reconceptualization of Roumain's intellectual itineraries against the backdrop of two public spheres: a national public sphere (Haiti) and a transnational public sphere (the global world). Second, it remaps and reframes Roumain's intellectual circuits and his critical engagements within a wide range of intellectual traditions, cultural and political movements, and philosophical and religious systems. Third, the book argues that Roumain's perspective on religion, social development, and his critiques of religion in general and of institutionalized Christianity in particular were substantially influenced by a Marxist philosophy of history and secular humanist approach to faith and human progress. Finally, the book advances the idea that Roumain's concept of development is linked to the theories of democratic socialism, relational anthropology, distributive justice, and communitarianism. Ultimately, this work demonstrates that Roumain believed that only through effective human solidarity and collaboration can serious social transformation and real human emancipation take place.

The Translations

The Translations PDF Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 082626378X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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This volume brings together a collection of texts translated by Langston Hughes. It contains his translations of work by the Spanish poet/playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, Afro-Cuban poet Nicolas Guillen and Haitian writer Jacques Roumain.

General Sun, My Brother

General Sun, My Brother PDF Author: Jacques Stéphen Alexis
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813918907
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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A novel on the exploitation of the poor in the Caribbean. The hero is a Haitian peasant who becomes politicized while in jail. Forced to work as a sugar-cane cutter in the Dominican Republic, he participates in a strike which ends in a massacre.

A Knot in the Thread

A Knot in the Thread PDF Author: Carolyn Fowler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Haitian
Languages : fr
Pages : 638

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The Specter of Races

The Specter of Races PDF Author: Anke Birkenmaier
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813938805
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars. In response to the rise of scientific racism in Europe and the American hemisphere in the early twentieth century, anthropologists joined numerous writers and artists in founding institutions, journals, and museums that actively pushed for an antiracist science of culture, questioning pseudoscientific theories of race and moving toward more broadly conceived notions of ethnicity and culture. Birkenmaier surveys the work of key figures such as Cuban historian and anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, Haitian scholar and novelist Jacques Roumain, French anthropologist and museum director Paul Rivet, and Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, focusing on the transnational networks of scholars in France, Spain, and the United States to which they were connected. Reviewing their essays, scientific publications, dictionaries, novels, poetry, and visual arts, the author traces the cultural study of Latin America back to these interdisciplinary discussions about the meaning of race and culture in Latin America, discussions that continue to provoke us today.

Cultural Entanglements

Cultural Entanglements PDF Author: Shane Graham
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813944104
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 475

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In addition to being a poet, fiction writer, playwright, and essayist, Langston Hughes was also a globe-trotting cosmopolitan, travel writer, translator, avid international networker, and—perhaps above all—pan-Africanist. In Cultural Entanglements, Shane Graham examines Hughes’s associations with a number of black writers from the Caribbean and Africa, exploring the implications of recognizing these multiple facets of the African American literary icon and of taking a truly transnational approach to his life, work, and influence. Graham isolates and maps Hughes’s cluster of black Atlantic relations and interprets their significance. Moving chronologically through Hughes’s career from the 1920s to the 1960s, he spotlights Jamaican poet and novelist Claude McKay, Haitian novelist and poet Jacques Roumain, French Negritude author Aimé Césaire of Martinique, South African writers Es’kia Mphahlele and Peter Abrahams, and Caribbean American novelist Paule Marshall. Taken collectively, these writers’ intellectual relationships with Hughes and with one another reveal a complex conversation—and sometimes a heated debate—happening globally throughout the twentieth century over what Africa signified and what it meant to be black in the modern world. Graham makes a truly original contribution not only to the study of Langston Hughes and African and Caribbean literatures but also to contemporary debates about cosmopolitanism, the black Atlantic, and transnational cultures.