13740: Coates: new publications by Haitians (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Carrol F. Coates <ccoates@mail.binghamton.edu>

I would like to call attention, for all interested in Haitian
literature, the publication of 2 stories by well-known Haitian women writers.

In the latest issue of CALLALOO (Johns Hopkins University Press), Vol. 25,
No. 4, Fall 2002, the lead story, "Night Talkers," is by Edwidge Danticat
(from a forthcoming volume of short stories.  Along with this story, there
is a story by Marilene Phipps (artist, poet, fiction writer), "Marie-Ange's
Ginen."

Also relevant to Haiti is an important section (150+ pages) devoted to
Langston Hughes, in commemoration of the centenary of his birth
(1902).  Many readers will remember that Hughes visited Haiti and was
highly respected by Haitian writers of Jacques Roumain's generation (and
after).