The inaugural New York Haitian Book and Media Day, scheduled for Saturday, April 20. This event aims to celebrate Haitian literature and media, bringing together writers, journalists, poets, intellectuals, and artists from both Haiti and the diaspora.
City of Asylum presents the fourth installment of the International Reading Series curated and moderated by Anderson Tepper, “Discussing Haitian Literature with Yanick Lahens and Lyonel Trouillot.” This virtual event takes place on April 27, at 7:00pm (EDT). Read more at City of Asylum and get Free Livestream Tickets. Description: In this virtual fourth installment of…
Twenty Years of Île en île: A Conversation with Thomas C. Spear
Thomas C. Spear. Photo credit: Emmanuel J. Duogène.
From 1998 until January 2021, Professor Thomas C. Spear edited Île en île, an extensive virtual archive of literature from French-speaking islands and their diasporas. Although there will no longer be updates or new material, the entire Île en île archive remains accessible online. Today on WWB Daily, Professor Spear speaks with us about the evolution of Île en île over more than two decades and recommends some of his favorite authors in the archive, many of whom have yet to be translated into English.
Respecting the Diversity of Creativity
Kindred
, was published in the United States. The novel tells of a young African-American woman living in California in 1976 who travels back and forth through time. Toggling between 1976 and the years preceding the Civil War, she gives us a fresh look at the brutal racism of the American South. It’s a landmark novel that defies categorization and provides a complex and deeply moving historical account, drawing connections between past and present and stimulating reflection on, among other things, our notions of race, family, and identity. Nevertheless, it was not until 2000 twenty-one years later that