Poetry of Revolution: Romanticism and National Projects
and Nau, however, identified with and as poètes’ is nonetheless a vision of suffering and silence: “Attendons qu’il nous luisse ...
geographically distanced from the French Romantic writers they were reading and admired. Benedict Anderson, in his seminal work ...
the nineteenth century public sphere includes a chapter devoted to the Revue.^97 She qualifies it as the most radical abolitioni ...
Bisette’s interest in Wheatley’s poetry along with the other early "littérature des Nègres" covered in the journal was in part t ...
S’ils sont les messagers ou les bardes du ciel Qui viennent nous chanter le poème éternel, Si l’arbre, si la fleur, si l’eau de ...
One of Nau’s most nostalgic poems is “Basses-Pyrénées,” as it is titled in L’Union. Biographical information about Nau in anthol ...
Ce ciel est trop désert, ce soleil sans rayon, Ces champs, de mon pays, là-bas sous l’horizon, N’ont point la nature si vive. (3 ...
La nuit dans la campagne où l’on n’entend de bruit Que l’effort des moulins, que les chants de la danse Et l’accent du tambour, ...
fraction of the population.^106 In spite of these obstacles, literate and French-speaking Haitians felt compelled to participate ...
sings. Another untitled, unfinished poetic fragment puts the dilemma in the form of a direct question as to what poets under adv ...
votre histoire, conservez religieusement les traditions de la patrie.”^109 Two of Ardouin’s poems, one about the Taino Indians o ...
African and Amerindian descent. As Sibylle Fischer points out, the link between the Taino and the Africans who came after them w ...
sound. The moon disappears and the waves are not raised up by the wind but die “without a voice.” In the next stanza, as the Que ...
of her people, the result was slaughter of her people and her own death and capture several months after the murder of her husba ...
Although this part of the poem, as well as the next part, centers much more on description than action, the text serves as a rem ...
decoration” make women discernible from men. In reading Herder’s text, women seem among the constant universals in all cultures. ...
idyllic, pre-Colombian Haiti, or more specifically, at least a Haiti prior to the complete destruction of the Taino culture and ...
people and the link between two cultures separated in time but connected through shared experience and poetry. It is partly for ...
Despite the many historical references and essays by Emile Nau and others published in L’Union, there is to my knowledge only on ...
poems and quotes could have indicated that a “Haitian-Dominican culture was emerging.”^124 In the east, Fischer explains, this w ...
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