16996: (Arthur) The Disappearing Island: Haiti, History and the Hemisphere -15 November (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Tttnhm@aol.com

Saturday 15 November 2003, York University, Toronto
The Jagan Lecture & the Michael Baptista Lecture 2003 present:

A Caribbean Dialogue with J. Michael Dash
Professor of Francophone Literature and Director of Africana Studies, New
York University, Ph.D. University of the West Indies (Mona Jamaica); B.A.
University of the West Indies

The Disappearing Island: Haiti, History and the Hemisphere
Haiti became the second sovereign nation in the Americas and the first black
republic in 1804 when its people, in the only successful slave revolution in
history, defeated French colonial rule. From this remarkable accomplishment,
its tortured history has described a journey, through the struggles of its
people, towards freedom (or “libète” in Creole, Haiti’s official language since
1991); against this impulse,  however, various actors and circumstances have
conspired with such efficacy that Haiti continues to be considered (materially
speaking) the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, its emancipatory
project still unrealized.

J. Michael Dash will share his celebrated understanding of Haitian history
and culture, and of their place within the larger context of the Caribbean and
the Americas as a whole, on:

Saturday, November 15th, 2003
7:30 - 9:00 pm

Vari Hall Lecture Room A
York University, Keele Campus
Toronto, ON

J. Michael Dash, born in Trinidad, has worked extensively on Haitian
literature and French Caribbean writers, especially Edouard Glissant, whose works, The
Ripening (1985) and Caribbean Discourse (1989) he has translated into
English.  After 21 years at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, where he was
Professor of Francophone Literature and Chair of Modern Languages, he is now
Professor of French at New York University and Director of the Africana Studies
Program. His publications include Literature and Ideology in Haiti (1981),
Haiti and the United States (1988), Edouard Glissant (1995). His most recent
translation is The Drifting of Spirits (1999) by Gisèle Pineau. His most recent
books are The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context
(1998), Libete: A Haiti Anthology (1999) with Charles Arthur and Culture and
Customs of Haiti (2001). He is at present working on Surrealism in the Francophone
Caribbean.
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