A wide-ranging work that explores two centuries of Caribbean literature from a comparative perspective.

Annotation Examines Haiti's people and society, history, religion, social customs, media, literature and language, and arts.

He demonstrates this by a close examination of the relations between Haiti and the United States through the imaginative literature of both countries.

Among the major issues treated at length in Cross-Cultural Studies are: The history and construction of racial inequality in Caribbean colonization; The origins and formation of literatures in various Creoles; The gendered literary ...

Edouard Glissant is an accomplished and influential novelist and poet, and has recently emerged as a major theorist in Caribbean studies and postcolonial literature.

This is the tragic story of Toussaint Louverture, the charismatic leader of the only successful slave revolt in history, that led to Haiti's independence 200 years ago.