Hacking Classical Forms in Haitian Literature

by Tom Hawkins

This is the first book to study how Haitian authors - from independence in 1804 to the modern Haitian diaspora - have adapted Greco-Roman material and harnessed it to Haiti's legacy as the world's first anti-colonial nation-state.

In nine chronologically organized chapters built around individual Haitian authors, Hawkins takes readers on a journey through one strand of Haitian literary history that draws on material from ancient Greece and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036741029X
• ISBN13: 9780367410292
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"