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Trouillot, Lyonel

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Haïti n'est pas seulement le pays où "la négritude se mit debout pour la première fois", selon le mot d'Aimé Césaire. L'ex-colonie française de Saint-Domingue, devenue indépendante en 1804, a depuis entretenu un extraordinaire foyer de création littéraire. Ainsi, d'Anténor Firmin (De l'égalité des races humaines) à Marie Vieux-Chauvet (Amour, Colère, Folie), en passant par Jean-Price Mars (Ainsi parla l'oncle) et Jacques Roumain (Gouverneurs de la rosée), le dynamisme de cette littérature n'est plus à démontrer. Aujourd'hui, elle s'écrit dans les deux langues du pays, le français et le créole, aussi bien sur place que dans sa diaspora. Les maisons d'édition françaises, par exemple, diffusent les oeuvres de Georges Castera, Dany Laferrière, Yanick Lahens, Gary Victor, Kettly Mars, Edwidge Danticat, Evelyne Trouillot et tant d'autres encore... Le présent volume propose un voyage à travers cette littérature telle qu'elle s'est créée, se crée et se diffuse de nos jours. Une anthologie de textes sélectionnés par Louis-Philippe Dalembert et Lyonel Trouillot, ainsi qu'un CD d'archives sonores, complètent cette traversée littéraire.

French literature (outside France) --- Haiti --- Haïtian literature --- Haitian literature (French Creole) --- Haitian literature --- History and criticism --- Haïtian literature - History and criticism --- Haitian literature (French Creole) - History and criticism

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This book tells the story of the Battle of Vertières, fought in 1803 between indigenous Haitian forces under the leadership of Jean-Jacques Dessalines and a French expeditionary army commanded by Napoleon. The battle marked the culmination of a thirteen-year revolutionary struggle to end slavery and the dawn of an independent Haiti. Yet despite its pivotal importance to the history of Haiti, France, and the Americas, the Battle of Vertières has been struck from the record. The Cry of Vertières is the first book-length study of the battle, drawing from an array of sources including military correspondence, Haitian literature, art, and popular music. The event itself is recounted in vivid detail: it is a dramatic story of a volunteer army of former slaves, seeking the promises of freedom and citizenship held out by the revolution, defeating a colonial power determined to re-enslave them. The book also examines why the history of the battle has been suppressed in France - an act of erasure of a humiliating defeat - and why it remains fragile even in Haiti. Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec explains that today Vertières is both a key lieu de mémoire that embodies reconciliation, pride, and strength for the Haitian people, and a figure of speech exploited by politicians to reinforce their power. Describing a decisive yet largely forgotten moment in the revolutionary history of the Americas, The Cry of Vertières makes an essential contribution to the complex subjects of race, memory, colonialism, and cultural nationalism in present-day France and Haiti.

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