期刊名称:Continents manuscrits. Génétique des textes littéraires – Afrique, Caraïbe, diaspora
电子版ISSN:2275-1742
出版年度:2017
期号:8
DOI:10.4000/coma.859
语种:English
出版社:ITEM, Institut des textes et Manuscrits modernes, UMR 8132 CNRS/ENS
摘要:How to tell the story of the Haitian earthquake? Ever since 4:53 p.m. on 12 January 2010, this is the question many of Haiti’s writers have been asking. In the face of such a catastrophe with widespread death, destruction and suffering, what can writers do? In terms of aftershocks, how have the thematics and representational form of Haitian writing developed in the wake of this seismic event? This article examines responses in Haitian writing to the earthquake through the prisms of a premonit...