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Nineteenth-century Haitian writing [is] absolutely fantastic. It still rings
radical. If you’re reading about it today, it still seems radical to us. There
[are] these really fantastic anti-colonial thinkers whose words just did not
make the impact that we are still striving for today.
We continue to think about the Haitian Revolution with our guest, Lesley S.
Curtis. Dr. Curtis is the founder and
president of Sagely, a Philadelphia-based
company offering strategy and communication services to small businesses,
schools, and universities. She holds a PhD in literature from Duke University,
where she studied gender and abolitionism in the French Caribbean. In 2015,
she and Christen Mucher (Smith College) co-translated Haiti’s first novel,
Stella, an allegorical retelling of the Haitian
Revolution. The novel was originally written in French by Haitian politician
Émeric Bergeaud and first published in 1859.
We talk about Stella, the relationship between history writing and literature,
the ongoing resonances of the Haitian Revolution, and the generous act of
translation.
Show Notes.
Émeric Bergeaud: Stella.
[Bookshop. A scan of the second
edition, in French.]
Curtis and Mucher: Haiti’s First Novel: Expanding the Study of the Age of
Revolutions, a brief overview of
Stella.
Beaubrun Ardouin.
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the
People.
Richard Burton, trans.: The Arabian
Nights.
Baron de Vastey.
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Nineteenth-century Haitian writing [is] absolutely fantastic. It still rings
radical. If you’re reading about it today, it still seems radical to us. There
[are] these really fantastic anti-colonial thinkers whose words just did not
make the impact that we are still striving for today.
We continue to think about the Haitian Revolution with our guest, Lesley S.
Curtis. Dr. Curtis is the founder and
president of Sagely, a Philadelphia-based
company offering strategy and communication services to small businesses,
schools, and universities. She holds a PhD in literature from Duke University,
where she studied gender and abolitionism in the French Caribbean. In 2015,
she and Christen Mucher (Smith College) co-translated Haiti’s first novel,
Stella, an allegorical retelling of the Haitian
Revolution. The novel was originally written in French by Haitian politician
Émeric Bergeaud and first published in 1859.
We talk about Stella, the relationship between history writing and literature,
the ongoing resonances of the Haitian Revolution, and the generous act of
translation.
Show Notes.
Émeric Bergeaud: Stella.
[Bookshop. A scan of the second
edition, in French.]
Curtis and Mucher: Haiti’s First Novel: Expanding the Study of the Age of
Revolutions, a brief overview of
Stella.
Beaubrun Ardouin.
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the
People.
Richard Burton, trans.: The Arabian
Nights.
Baron de Vastey.
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon.
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