De la « terre désolée » à la « terre impossible » : (d)écrire la Terre dans la littérature haïtienne

Abstract

This study explores the relation between the poetics of the Earth and representations of Haiti in a selection of literary texts published between 1817 and 2017. Thus, it aims at questioning the slow transition following the Haitian revolution from an isolated nation-soil to a cosmopolitan land connecting with the world. An effort held back by years of dictatorship and more recently by a series of ecological disasters, events poets are still reckoning with by attempting at creating one more time the link between a population and its land.

Keywords:

• Haiti
• earth
• poetry
• literary journals
• aesthetics
• nationhood

Notes

1 Ferdinand, Malcom. Une écologie décoloniale. Paris, Seuil, 2019.

2 L’Espace d’un cillement ii.

3 Roumain, Jacques. Gouverneurs de la rosée. Paris, Mémoire d’encrier, 2009.

4 Lauro, Raphaël. “Tours et détours d’Édouard Glissant.” Esprit, n^o 396 (7), 2013, pp. 96–115.

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Notes on contributors

Jeanne Jégousso

Jeanne Jégousso is an assistant professor in French Studies at Hollins University. Her research primarily focuses on the French speaking Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. She is the co-editor of Reading, Teaching, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts (Lexington Books, 2020) and the author of several articles on Caribbean Literature. She is the cofounder and codirector of The Library of Glissant Studies (www.glissantstudies.com), a digital project dedicated to the work of and on Édouard Glissant.