haitian literature

News reports from Haiti aren’t good: political insecurity, gang terror, humanitarian crisis… What’s really happening? Why is it happening? Is there any good news? What are average Haitians to survive? To thrive? What path forward exists for Haiti to rise about the news headlines and claim her right to a better future? How can caring Canadians actually help? (Should they help?)

In Episode 2 we hear the diverse perspectives of acclaimed author and academic Dr. Myriam J. A. Chancy, celebrated writer and artist Gabriel Osson, and director of Rayjon Share Care in Haiti, Renaud Thomas.

Don't miss the episode artwork (by Haitian artist Markenson Bona) and music (as performed by the Haitian Women's Federation in rural St. Marc, Haiti). Find it all at https://rayjon.org/podcast/ 

This episode is dedicated to the memory of the late Camita Estiverne Estimé, one of the original leaders of the Fédération des Femmes de Haut de Saint-Marc (FEFEH).

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A discussion is with Kir Kuiken and Deborah Elise White, editors of a new collection titled Haiti’s Literary Legacies: Romanticism and the Unthinkable Revolution, out with Bloomsbury Publishing in late-2021. Kir teaches in the Department of English at State University of New York at Albany in Albany, New York, and is the author of numerous articles and the book Imagined Sovereignties: Toward a New Political Romanticism, published by Fordham University Press, 2014. Deborah teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she has written widely on 19th and 20th century literature and thought, and is the author of Romantic Returns: Superstition, Imagination, History, published by Stanford University Press in 2000. In this conversation, we discuss the place of Haiti and the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic world’s literary imagination, the long shadow and persistence of romanticism, and the enduring significance of Haitian history and thought for thinking through issues of race, nation, revolution, literature, and conceptions of the new.