Poetry of Revolution: Romanticism and National Projects
two prevalent cultural ideologies in the Dominican Republic^128 The literary and cultural connections between Santo Domingo and ...
In Ardouin’s collection, the poem is preceded by two epigraphs: the first from the Old Testament Book of Judges, and the second ...
together the similarities between these two pre-national histories. Separated by time and space, the two stories have in common ...
nature; women’s relationship to landscape and oneness with nature will be further explored in the next chapter on Oswald Durand’ ...
one stanza, however, Minora is quickly separated again; she is the last to enter the river to bathe, and she comes out alone mom ...
known for their longstanding resistance to colonial and local powers.^131 It is therefore likely that the term ‘Bochimens’ in Ar ...
poem evokes “Les brunes Amirantes,” means that they are either another name for “Les Betjouannes,” les filles d’Afrique, or that ...
On les embarque pêle-mêle Le négrier, immense oiseau Leur ouvre une serre cruelle Et les ravit à leur berceau. (5-8) The “Betjou ...
damaging ramifications of a system to which many Haitian intellectuals expressed their opposition in the pages of L’Union. Minor ...
between the diverse communities of the region, to demonstrate the continuity, across time and space.”^137 2.4 POEMS ABOUT THE HA ...
independence. As with the bulk of the other poems in Haiti throughout the nineteenth century, these poems are not remarkable for ...
Ardouin’s death. The precise dates of composition for many of their poems, however, remain unknown, and it is therefore not poss ...
unfolds within alternating temporalities: the poem’s title, “Le Pont Rouge,” recalls the site just outside Port-au-Prince where ...
Convention in February, 1794.^143 As historian David Nicholls notes, “complete independence became the goal of the black and mul ...
document the mission to eliminate slavery in the Caribbean, regenerate the black race, and place Haiti at the center of a new An ...
Il s’écria : ton jour, ô liberté, se lève! Cri de lion qui fit tressaillir les déserts! Cri sublime! Et soudain les vils troupea ...
Le blanc disait: « Toussaint expire! « L’aigle est tombé dans nos filets! « Rage impuissante! vain délire! « Ils redeviendront n ...
while recognizing the possibility of rhetorical strategy, observe that “At times, however, Toussaint writes as if the very idea ...
“criminal” behavior. The poem’s description of whites’ defeat is followed by a final description of Dessalines’ death which circ ...
country.^154 Dessalines’ murder, however, shows that beyond the military victory this unity was never fully achieved. Black/mula ...
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