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Poetry of Haitian Independence Doris Y. Kadish
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Poetry of Haitian Independence
Doris Y. Kadish
"This collection of deeply felt and powerfully moving Haitian poetry dating back to the first decades of the Caribbean island's independence from French colonial rule sheds a much needed light on an important and often neglected period in Haiti's literary history. Editors Kadish and Jenson have made a significant corpus of largely unknown poetry accessible to a wide audience for the first time with this essential bilingual volume of early-nineteenth-century verse that celebrates the authors' African origins, freedom from oppression, equality for all, and the legitimacy of the only modern country born from a slave revolt"--
360 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 28, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780300195590 |
| Publishers | Yale University Press |
| Genre | Cultural Region > Latin America |
| Pages | 360 |
| Dimensions | 149 × 219 × 30 mm · 512 g |
| Language | English |
| Translator | Shapiro, Norman R. |
