Hacking Classical Forms in Haitian Literature (Paperback, 1)

Introduction; Historical Segue 1: 1804-1822: Saturn’s Children; 1. ‘We are all Greeks’: President Boyer’s Letter to Greek Revolutionaries (1822); 2. The ‘Lake of Lies’: Emeric Bergeaud’s Stella (1859); 3. On Haiti and Black Egypt: Antenor Firmin’s De l’Egalite des Races Humaines (1885); Historical Segue 2: From 19^th c. Nationalism to 20^th c. Populism; 4. A jumble of names: Fernand Hibbert’s Romulus (1908); 5. Cleopatras and Sapphos of the Haitian Countryside: Jean Price-Mars, Ansi Parla l’Oncle (1928); 6. Sophocles becomes a Haitian Writer: Felix Morisseau-Leroy, Antigon en Creole (1953); Historical Segue 3: Duvalierism and the Haitian Diaspora; 7. Antigon in West Africa: Morisseau-Leroy’s Wa Kreyon; 8. ‘As though Picasso were Tagging with Spraypaint’: Dany Laferriere’s Le cri des oiseaux fous; 9. Edwidge Danticat and the Revolt against Silence ? with Julia Nelson Hawkins; Coda.