Haitian Creole Newspaper Reader
Haitian Creole Newspaper Reader

Author: Kate Howe

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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This reader follows the same basic format as others in the Newspaper Reader series published by Dunwoody Press, with the difference that most of the reading selections herein are transcriptions of radio broadcasts rather than newspaper articles. The book is intended to provide students of Haitian Creole who already have some knowledge of the language with further practice in reading on a wide variety of topics, thus also increasing their familiary with some aspects of Haitian life, in the broadest sense The texts vary in difficulty from elementary to advanced, with the majority ranging from 2 to 3+ on the US Government Interagency Language Roundtable scale. All the texts were originally produced by native Haitian Creole speakers for native Haitian Creole speakers.Those reading selections transcribed from radio broadcasts were recorded in Haiti between 7 and 25 November 1988. Three selections are samples of graffiti found in the slums of La Saline, and one is a political slogan on a main street in the Pacot neighborhood of the capital. The remainder are articles or letters reproduced the kind permission of the weekly newspaper, Haïti Progrés.

Entwisted Tongues
Entwisted Tongues

Author: George Lang

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-12-18

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 9004657150

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Cultural creolization, métissage, hybridity, and the in-between spaces of postcolonial thought are now fundamental terms of reference within contemporary critical thought. Entwisted Tongues explores the sociohistorical and cultural basis for writing in creole languages from a comparative framework. The rise of self-defining literatures in Atlantic creoles offers parallels with the development of national literatures elsewhere, but the status of creole languages imposes particular conditions for literary creation. After an introduction to the history of the term creole, Entwisted Tongues surveys the history of the languages which are its focus: the Crioulo of Cape Verde, Sierra Leone Krio, Surinamese Sranan, Papiamentu (spoken in the Netherlands Antilles), and the varieties of French-based Kreyol in the Caribbean. The chapter Deep Speech turns around a trope ubiquitous in creoles, one conveying the sense that their authentic registers are at the furthest remove from the high cultures with which they are in contact; Diglossic Dilemma explores the contradictions inherent in this trope. The remaining analysis explores numerous nooks and crannies of these marginal but fascinating literatures, submitting that creoles and literature in them are prima facie evidence of the human will to articulate speech and verbal art, even in the face of slavery, oppression and penury.

The Haitian Creole Language
The Haitian Creole Language

Author: Arthur K. Spears

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2010-06-22

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1461662656

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The Haitian Creole Language is the first book dealing with the central role of Creole in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora, especially in the United States. Dispelling myths about Creole, with discussions of Haitian and Haitian Creole history, it provides a foundation for educators, service providers, policy makers, social scientists, and language and literature scholars to understand Creole in its historical, social, political, educational, and economic developmental contexts.

Dézafi
Dézafi

Author: Frankétienne

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2018-10-30

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0813941407

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Dézafi is no ordinary zombie novel. In the hands of the great Haitian author known simply as Frankétienne, zombification takes on a symbolic dimension that stands as a potent commentary on a country haunted by a history of slavery. Now this dynamic new translation brings this touchstone in Haitian literature—the first book ever published in Haitian Creole—to English-language readers for the first time. Written in a provocative experimental style, with a myriad of voices and combining myth, poetry, allegory, magical realism, and social realism, Dézafi tells the tale of a plantation that is run and worked by zombies for the financial benefit of the living owner. The owner's daughter falls in love with a zombie and facilitates his transformation back into fully human form, leading to a rebellion that challenges the oppressive imbalance that had robbed the workers of their spirit. With the walking dead and bloody cockfights (the "dézafi" of the title) as cultural metaphors for Haitian existence, Frankétienne’s novel is ultimately a powerful allegory of political and social liberation.

English-Haitian Creole Bilingual Dictionary
English-Haitian Creole Bilingual Dictionary

Author: Albert Valdman

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2017-04-06

Total Pages: 861

ISBN-13: 153201600X

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Haitian Creole (HC) is spoken by approximately 11,000,000 persons in Haiti and in diaspora communities in the United States and throughout the Caribbean. Thus, it is of great utility to Anglophone professionals engaged in various activities—medical, social, educational, welfare— in these regions. As the most widely spoken and best described creole language, a knowledge of its vocabulary is of interest and utility to scholars in a variety of disciplines. The English-Haitian Creole Bilingual Dictionary (EHCBD) aims to assist anglophone users in constructing written and oral discourse in HC; it also will aid HC speakers to translate from English to their language. As the most elaborate and extensive linguistic tool available, it contains about 30 000 individual entries, many of which have multiple senses and include subentries, multiword phrases or idioms. The distinguishing feature of the EHCBD is the inclusion of translated sentence-length illustrative examples that provide important information on usage.

Create Dangerously
Create Dangerously

Author: Edwidge Danticat

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-09-20

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0307946436

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A New York Times Notable Book A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, these moving and eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from a country in crisis.

The Haiti Reader
The Haiti Reader

Author: Laurent Dubois

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Published: 2020-01-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781478006770

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While Haiti established the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere and was the first black country to gain independence from European colonizers, its history is not well known in the Anglophone world. The Haiti Reader introduces readers to Haiti's dynamic history and culture from the viewpoint of Haitians from all walks of life. Its dozens of selections—most of which appear here in English for the first time—are representative of Haiti's scholarly, literary, religious, visual, musical, and political cultures, and range from poems, novels, and political tracts to essays, legislation, songs, and folk tales. Spanning the centuries between precontact indigenous Haiti and the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, the Reader covers widely known episodes in Haiti's history, such as the U.S. military occupation and the Duvalier dictatorship, as well as overlooked periods such as the decades immediately following Haiti's “second independence” in 1934. Whether examining issues of political upheaval, the environment, or modernization, The Haiti Reader provides an unparalleled look at Haiti's history, culture, and politics.