Poetry of Revolution: Romanticism and National Projects
Once again Coicou inserts a reference to ancient Rome. Sempronia refers to women of the prominent Sempronius family in the Roman ...
Et puis, c’était son tour, à l’altière négresse, En face du bourreau railleur de ses vertus, Elle eut comme un délire, un transp ...
colonialism, and with movements like négritude and Haiti’s own indiginisme on the horizon. Less than ten years away would be the ...
nor purely despairing; there is a racial weight to Haiti’s national project that Coicou nonetheless posits as indispensable to H ...
The poet not only chronicles the often unnamed and unrecognized heroes of Haiti’s past but again emphasizes their ancestral home ...
prescient reflections of national failure lies resistance in both through recourse to history and through gestures of racial sol ...
Chrisphonte Prosper, a Haitian professor who organized a series of conferences about Coicou’s life and works in the 1950s, state ...
beyond it, especially in its earliest years. Some of the most intense patriotic verse had dominated Haiti’s literary scene in th ...
illustrations of this surrender. This poem echoes verses from the introduction in which the highest devotion is one to God. La P ...
This lecture, published in written form, was entitled Le génie français et l’âme haïtienne.^300 In this essay, Coicou elaborates ...
necessarily follow a certain trajectory, moving away from political poetry, but that he chose to publish the poems in Impression ...
4.6 POLITICAL CAUSES AND CONSPIRACIES Politics rather than literature define Coicou’s remaining years. The most significant impa ...
by the standing government, and Firmin left Haiti for St. Thomas in 1902. Support for Firmin as a presidential hopeful, however, ...
wanting a Firminist revolution to spread throughout the Caribbean and interested in keeping a pro-American president in power, t ...
Among the other details consistent in most accounts is that Massillon Coicou was taken with his brothers to the recently erected ...
sections of this text come about when the poet’s own subjectivity breaks through the dominant descriptions of past heroes and he ...
The audacity he refers to carries the double meaning of a bold gesture as well as a worthy artistic project. So innovative is th ...
actions, and in the second stanza he echoes concerns from other poems about the true usefulness of poetry in Haiti at this time. ...
L’on ne me verra pas, chercheur de gloire vile, Agiter le drapeau de la guerre civile, Et puis, sur mes autels, le planter, --- ...
soi qu’un homme hautement imbu de cette mission doit incarner cet espoir et cette volonté. Pour qui vivait pleinement ces premiè ...
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