The Chains of Pitit Pierr’: Colonial Legacies and Character Linkage in Oswald Durand’s Rires et P... more The Chains of Pitit Pierr’: Colonial Legacies and Character Linkage in Oswald Durand’s Rires et Pleurs Oswald Durand, Haiti’s national poet in the nineteenth century, is best known for his poem “Choucoune,” written in Haitian Creole. The poem has been read in terms of failure, since the Creole-speaking narrator loses his lover Choucoune to a French-speaking foreigner. I argue that the baby born of the love affair, pitit Pierr’, is the forerunner to the recurrent character Pierre in Durand’s 1896 collection Rires et Pleurs. Citing two of the collection’s French-language poems, I trace Pierre’s evolution into the black poet in postrevolutionary Haiti. Far from conveying failure, this character’s understated subjectivity employs irony to subvert neocolonial hegemony.
The Chains of Pitit Pierr’: Colonial Legacies and Character Linkage in Oswald Durand’s Rires et P... more The Chains of Pitit Pierr’: Colonial Legacies and Character Linkage in Oswald Durand’s Rires et Pleurs Oswald Durand, Haiti’s national poet in the nineteenth century, is best known for his poem “Choucoune,” written in Haitian Creole. The poem has been read in terms of failure, since the Creole-speaking narrator loses his lover Choucoune to a French-speaking foreigner. I argue that the baby born of the love affair, pitit Pierr’, is the forerunner to the recurrent character Pierre in Durand’s 1896 collection Rires et Pleurs. Citing two of the collection’s French-language poems, I trace Pierre’s evolution into the black poet in postrevolutionary Haiti. Far from conveying failure, this character’s understated subjectivity employs irony to subvert neocolonial hegemony.
The Chains of Pitit Pierr’: Colonial Legacies and Character Linkage in Oswald Durand’s Rires et P... more The Chains of Pitit Pierr’: Colonial Legacies and Character Linkage in Oswald Durand’s Rires et Pleurs
Oswald Durand, Haiti’s national poet in the nineteenth century, is best known for his poem “Choucoune,” written in Haitian Creole. The poem has been read in terms of failure, since the Creole-speaking narrator loses his lover Choucoune to a French-speaking foreigner. I argue that the baby born of the love affair, pitit Pierr’, is the forerunner to the recurrent character Pierre in Durand’s 1896 collection Rires et Pleurs. Citing two of the collection’s French-language poems, I trace Pierre’s evolution into the black poet in postrevolutionary Haiti. Far from conveying failure, this character’s understated subjectivity employs irony to subvert neocolonial hegemony.
The Chains of Pitit Pierr’: Colonial Legacies and Character Linkage in Oswald Durand’s Rires et P... more The Chains of Pitit Pierr’: Colonial Legacies and Character Linkage in Oswald Durand’s Rires et Pleurs Oswald Durand, Haiti’s national poet in the nineteenth century, is best known for his poem “Choucoune,” written in Haitian Creole. The poem has been read in terms of failure, since the Creole-speaking narrator loses his lover Choucoune to a French-speaking foreigner. I argue that the baby born of the love affair, pitit Pierr’, is the forerunner to the recurrent character Pierre in Durand’s 1896 collection Rires et Pleurs. Citing two of the collection’s French-language poems, I trace Pierre’s evolution into the black poet in postrevolutionary Haiti. Far from conveying failure, this character’s understated subjectivity employs irony to subvert neocolonial hegemony.
The Chains of Pitit Pierr’: Colonial Legacies and Character Linkage in Oswald Durand’s Rires et P... more The Chains of Pitit Pierr’: Colonial Legacies and Character Linkage in Oswald Durand’s Rires et Pleurs Oswald Durand, Haiti’s national poet in the nineteenth century, is best known for his poem “Choucoune,” written in Haitian Creole. The poem has been read in terms of failure, since the Creole-speaking narrator loses his lover Choucoune to a French-speaking foreigner. I argue that the baby born of the love affair, pitit Pierr’, is the forerunner to the recurrent character Pierre in Durand’s 1896 collection Rires et Pleurs. Citing two of the collection’s French-language poems, I trace Pierre’s evolution into the black poet in postrevolutionary Haiti. Far from conveying failure, this character’s understated subjectivity employs irony to subvert neocolonial hegemony.
The Chains of Pitit Pierr’: Colonial Legacies and Character Linkage in Oswald Durand’s Rires et P... more The Chains of Pitit Pierr’: Colonial Legacies and Character Linkage in Oswald Durand’s Rires et Pleurs
Oswald Durand, Haiti’s national poet in the nineteenth century, is best known for his poem “Choucoune,” written in Haitian Creole. The poem has been read in terms of failure, since the Creole-speaking narrator loses his lover Choucoune to a French-speaking foreigner. I argue that the baby born of the love affair, pitit Pierr’, is the forerunner to the recurrent character Pierre in Durand’s 1896 collection Rires et Pleurs. Citing two of the collection’s French-language poems, I trace Pierre’s evolution into the black poet in postrevolutionary Haiti. Far from conveying failure, this character’s understated subjectivity employs irony to subvert neocolonial hegemony.
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Oswald Durand, Haiti’s national poet in the nineteenth century, is best known for his poem “Choucoune,” written in Haitian Creole. The poem has been read in terms of failure, since the Creole-speaking narrator loses his lover Choucoune to a French-speaking foreigner. I argue that the baby born of the love affair, pitit Pierr’, is the forerunner to the recurrent character Pierre in Durand’s 1896 collection Rires et Pleurs. Citing two of the collection’s French-language poems, I trace Pierre’s evolution into the black poet in postrevolutionary Haiti. Far from conveying failure, this character’s understated subjectivity employs irony to subvert neocolonial hegemony.
Oswald Durand, Haiti’s national poet in the nineteenth century, is best known for his poem “Choucoune,” written in Haitian Creole. The poem has been read in terms of failure, since the Creole-speaking narrator loses his lover Choucoune to a French-speaking foreigner. I argue that the baby born of the love affair, pitit Pierr’, is the forerunner to the recurrent character Pierre in Durand’s 1896 collection Rires et Pleurs. Citing two of the collection’s French-language poems, I trace Pierre’s evolution into the black poet in postrevolutionary Haiti. Far from conveying failure, this character’s understated subjectivity employs irony to subvert neocolonial hegemony.