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Haiti in Translation: Anacaona by Jean Métellus
No full textThis interview with Susan Pickford considers her translation of Jean Métellus’s 1986 play Anacaona. Susan contacted me via the University of Liverpool’s Francofil Listserv, where she first heard of the blog series. She informed me of her translation of Anacaona, and I leaped at the opportunity to interview her via e-mail about a Haitian author who has been seldom translated into English and whose work is growing increasingly out of print in France
La Mulâtresse During the Two World Wars: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Suzanne Lacascade’s Claire-Solange, âme-africaine and Mayotte Capécia’s Je suis Martiniquaise
No full textWhen we think of the literature produced before, during, and after the two World Wars we rarely think of the Caribbean as a site of significant literary output. Typically, we privilege a white, male, European literary voice. If we do consider literature from elsewhere, it usually follows a pattern of normative privilege. Therefore, it is useful to consider the female Caribbean voice and its response to colonialism, racism, and gender violence during the period between 1914 and 1945. Claire-Solange, âme-africaine offers arguably one of the best examples of a female Caribbean perspective on World War I as well as global politics. Although Suzanne Lacascade’s novel has been obscured and lost over time, the Martinican author portrays everyday scenarios in France during World War I to empower marginalized Caribbean women during one of the most tumultuous moments in the early 20th Century. While Lacascade shifts our lens to the First World War, Mayotte Capécia’s Je suis Martiniquaise is set, in part, during the blockade years in Martinique during World War II under Admiral Georges Robert. Together, these two Martinican female writers – even though they are less well known than their canonical male compatriots Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, and Patrick Chamoiseau – lucidly portray the everyday lives of mulatto women in Martinique and in France as they negotiate their place on the periphery of French society. I argue below that through their interrogations of the everyday during these two wars that Lacascade and Capécia generate female protagonists who challenge racial, cultural, gender, and sexual stereotypes, which have historically rendered mixed race women as marginalized figures in Francophone Caribbean literature
Translating Global Citizenship: Haiti, Charles Moravia, and Woodrow Wilson
Get PDFThis is a bilingual edition of Charles Moravia's poem "La Vision de Président Wilson," or "President Wilson's Vision" first published in the Haitian daily, Le Matin on November 4, 1918 in response to Woodrow Wilson's (in)action regarding post-war peace and reconciliation in Europe
Beyond the Morality Tale of Humanitarianism: Epistolary Narration and Montage in Raoul Peck's Assistance mortelle
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An Explosion in the Archives, Reframing French Archives through Caribbean Digital Praxis
Get PDFThe digital archive of Saint-Domingue poses major questions relating to power and the production of history, especially since North American institutions possess and have digitized massive collections of French language materials. Once digitized, how will the material be curated, read, and interpreted by the archive's various users (teachers, researchers, students, and history enthusiasts)? In a recent initiative to translate the digital project A Colony in Crisis: The Saint-Domingue Grain Shortage of 1789 into Kreyòl, one of the student translators remarked that reading the digital archive of Saint-Domingue as Haitian history rather than Colonial French history had completely changed how she interpreted the events leading up to and following the start of the Haitian Revolution. While an archive can, and must feature numerous orientations, the digital humanities offers Caribbean studies a manner of recovering the written traces of its past in the virtual archive. This presentation seeks to identify how the curation of digital archives disrupts the colonial framing of the eighteenth-century Francophone Caribbean within the academy and in the digital sphere
« Comment écrire en évitant d’exotiser le malheur? »
No full textAprès le passage des ouragans, des incendies et des séismes, les médias reviennent toujours à l’apocalyptique, un discours qui vise à répertorier les dommages d’un désastre jusqu’à perdre toute trace d’intimité humaine. Depuis le 12 janvier 2010, des auteurs, artistes, académiciens et acteurs sociaux – activistes et militants – haïtiens se battent contre cette notion d’apocalypse puisqu’elle rend Haïti et son peuple incompréhensible sauf à travers les tendances de l’exceptionnalisme et de la résilience. Ces tendances, jaillissant de multiples contextes au fil de l’histoire haïtienne, aident les médias à justifier la souffrance des Haïtiens face aux événement catastrophiques et à transformer tout un peuple, comme le dit Michel-Rolph Trouillot, à un état grotesque. Afin de déconstruire le discours apocalyptique dans la littérature dite « post-séisme », cet article examine Je suis vivant (2015), un roman de Kettly Mars, qui emploie les termes séismiques et apocalyptiques non pour décrire les dégâts subis par le tremblement de terre de 2010, sinon pour introduire le retour au foyer des enfants grandis de la famille Bernier. En se servant de termes et métaphores eschatologiques pour dépeindre une situation familiale, Mars ne prive pas ses personnages d’humanité, ce qui leur permettent de retrouver un rythme de vie banal dans les mois qui suivent le séisme
The Archive as Method: Virtual and Material Archives of the French Atlantic
Get PDFIn the last two decades since the publication of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Caribbean historical studies has undergone an ‘archival turn.’ Indeed, archives and formal institutions of knowledge have always been and continue to be an integral part of historical work, but Trouillot’s work has called into question the act of collection, the assembling of archives that speak to the “unevenness of historical power” (Trouillot 56). The ‘archival turn’ along with the concurrent wave of digital humanities scholarship, the tools and methods used to assemble archives, data sets, and interact with collections has resulted in new modes of writing and telling stories of Atlantic slavery. Thanks to the digitization of numerous collections and attempts to promote access to new material, scholars and historians of the French Atlantic zone are able to tell new stories while reaching new publics. This course uses virtual and material archives as the point of departure to consider several questions: What does it mean to create increased (digital) access to archival holdings? What affordances do print and digital modes of storytelling provide for researchers and institutions? What are the limitations of virtual and physical archives? What is the role of the scholar and/or researcher in the proliferation of new sources and narratives of French Atlantic slavery? How does the proliferation of digital archives and function full-text searching allow scholars to address the “silencing” of enslaved peoples, particularly women and children, in colonial archives
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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