#Jacques Stephen Alexis

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"La limitation de mes mouvements, de mes travaux, de mes occupations, de mes démarches ou de mes relations en ville ou à la campagne n’est pas pour moi une perspective acceptable. Je tenais à le dire." Lettre de Jacques Stéphen Alexis au président Duvalier

[deadassdiaspore]

Matthew J. Smith, Ph.D. Smith se Konferansye Senior nan Depatman Istwa ak Akeyoloji nan University of the West Indies nan Mona, Jamayik. Li se otè Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957 (2009). " Nan plizyè fason, Ayiti te antre nan epòk politik modèn li a ak Revolisyon 1946 la. Konfli koulè ak klas nan peyi a te vin pi apwofondi anba lidèchip Elie Lescot, ki te pran plas Prezidan Sténio Vincent an 1941. Lescot te dirije ak yon men fèm e tankou Vincent te konte anpil. Garde d'Haïti (ansyen jandamri a) pou l te kenbe dominasyon l, men li pa t kapab kenbe enpilsyon radikal yo te deklannche nan viktwa fòs alye yo an 1945. Jèn maksis ann Ayiti te enspirasyon anpil nan Revolisyon Ris la, Gè Sivil Panyòl, maksis fransè yo, André Breton ak mouvman sirealis la ak jenerasyon kominis ayisyen anvan yo, sitou powèt maksis la selebre Jacques Roumain, ki gen renome ak lejand te grandi apre lanmò toudenkou li an 1944.

Defi revolisyonè nan pwennvi yo, etidyan maksis sa yo, ki gen ladann ekriven don Jacques Stephen Alexis, René Depestre, ak Gérald Bloncourt, te non sèlman ajite pa elit abi pouvwa politik, men tou, entèferans nan peyi Etazini nan politik ak ekonomi Ayiti. pandan GMII. Nan edisyon Nouvèl Ane 1946 nan ògàn yo La Ruche, yo te mande pou yon reoryantasyon dramatik nan politik ayisyen an ak yon fen nan diktati an Ayiti. Fèmti fòse Lescot nan laprès te pouse yon pwotestasyon etidyan an mas ki te dirije pa manm kolektif La Ruche. Nan kèk jou, manifestasyon etidyan an te vin tounen yon gwo grèv nan tout peyi a. Yon Lescot dekouraje te oblije demisyone.

Apre "Revolisyon 1946" Ayiti te fè eksperyans yon peryòd gwo aktivite radikal. Pou la pwemye fwa nan listwa peyi a, te gen yon rafal jounal radikal ak plizyè douzèn pati politik ki te fòme, ki gen ladan plizyè enpòtan pati gòch. Pami yo te gen yon Parti Communiste Haïtien (PCH) ak Parti Socialiste Populaire (PSP) ki te reviv. PSP a te dirije pa ansyen alye Roumain e li te gen pi fò koneksyon ak gwoup maksis nan Kiba, Repiblik Dominikèn, ak Etazini.

Men, se gwoup noiriste yo ki te gen pi gwo enfliyans an 1946. Radikalis noiriste te dwe anpil nan ekspansyon konsyans nwa nan ane karant yo ak devlopman an reta nan yon mouvman travayè an 1946. Figi dirijan nan mouvman travayè a ak nan mouvman travayè a. epòk pre-Duvalier te san dout Daniel Fignolé. Fignolé se te yon jèn pwofesè matematik ak ekriven ki te soti nan yon orijin riral pòv, li te yon oratè ki te gen yon don ekstraòdinè ak yon apeti fenomenn nan mitan majorite vil yo nan Pòtoprens. Aparisyon Fignolé sou sèn politik la an 1946 te atribiye a abilite inik li pou pwofite enkyetid majorite ayisyen yo nan diskou dramatik ki te bay an kreyòl.

Ekriven Noiriste yo te konsidere Fignolé kòm yon egzanp sou espwa yo ak gwo swiv li te wè l kòm yon sovè anba dominasyon politik boujwazi a. Pati Fignolé a, Mouvement Ouvrier et Paysan (MOP) te fòme an 1946 e li te vin pi gwo òganizasyon travayè nan listwa Ayiti. Malgre mayetis Fignolé a, ak ajanda radikal maksis yo, Etazini ak Garde d'Haïti, te rete pi gwo pouvwa an 1946. Sou direksyon Garde yo te òganize eleksyon 16 out e sa te lakòz viktwa. Dumarsais Estimé, yon depite nan Verettes ak senpati noiriste. Administrasyon katran Estimé a te pwouve se youn nan pi pwogresis nan ventyèm syèk la." " Gérald Bloncourt, Jacques Stephen Alexis, ak René Depestre, ak zanmi. Nan Unité, vol. 2, no 9" Sous : http://islandluminous.fiu.edu/part09-slide14.html http://www.dloc.com/UF00072338/00011

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2024

This year I visited the following exhibitions

10th Jan, Zara Sands and Olly Centres, General Practice, Lincoln

12 Jan, Bodies for Practice, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

2nd Feb, Seasonal Strokes, General Practice, Lincoln

Chris Ofilli and William Blake, Tate Britain, London

9 Feb, Chris Ofilli, Tate Britain, London

9 Feb, Woman in Protest, Tate Britain, London

9 Feb, Richard Hamilton, Tate Britain, London

9 Feb, Yuri Pattison and J M W Turner, Tate Britain, London

9 Feb, Zineb Saleh Tate Britain, London

9 Feb, Cat Flap Blink, Terrace Gallery, London

9 Feb, Victor Bengtsson, Public, London

9 Feb, Martin Aagaard Hansen, Tanja Nis-Hansen & Kazuyuki Takezaki , Union Pacific, London

9 Feb, Mao Yan, Pace Gallery, London

9 Feb, ,Ziping Wang, Unit, London

9 Feb, Zach lieberman, Unit, London

9 Feb, Conversation Galante, Pillar Corris, London

9 Feb, Frank Bowling ,Hauser and Wirth, London

9 Feb, Uman ,Hauser and Wirth, London

9 Feb, Willem Sasnal, Sadie Coles ,London

9 Feb, Anna Barriball, Frith St,London

9 Feb, Emi Otaguro, Masanori Tomita, Nobuya Hitsuda & Yutaka Nozawa , Sadie Coles,London

9 Feb, Come Home, Sadie Coles ,London

9 Feb, Zineb Sedira, Goodman Gallery,London

9 Feb, Marc Chagall, Alon Zakaim, London

9 Feb, Polymythologies, Tiwani Contemporary,London

9 Feb, Jeffrey Gibson, Stephen Friedman,London

9 Feb, Claire Gavronsky, Goodman Gallery ,London

9 Feb, Rose Shakinovsky, Goodman Gallery ,London

9 Feb, Olivia Flax, Holtermann ,London

9 Feb,Burri, Miró , Ermnst, Nahmad Projects,London

9 Feb, Gerhard Richter, David Zwirner ,London

9 Feb, Drawn into the Present, Thaddeus Ropac ,London

9 Feb, Andy Warhol, Thaddeus Ropac ,London

9 Feb, Pauline Boty, Gazelli, ,London

9 Feb, Karel Appel, Max Hetzler, ,London

9 Feb, Alexis Hunter, Richard Saltoun, ,London

9 Feb, Premiums 1, Royal Academy ,London

9 Feb, Entangled Pasts, Royal Academy ,London

16 Feb, Punk: Rage and Revolution, Northampton Museum & Art Gallery

16 Feb, Material Matters, Northampton Museum & Art Gallery

16 Feb, Elke Pollard, Northampton Museum & Art Gallery

21 Feb, Practice Research, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

22 Feb,  Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Nottingham Contemporary

22 Feb, Dora Budor, Nottingham Contemporary

22 Feb, Danica Maier, Beam, Nottingham

1 March, Andrew Bracey, General Practice, Lincoln

8 March, Darren Diss and Brian Voce, The Hub, Sleaford

8 March, Jo Cope, The Hub, Sleaford

20 March, Mirrors Windows Portals, project space plus, Lincoln

23 March, Feng-Ru Lee, Weston Gallery, Nottingham

23 March, Dan Rapley, Angear Visitor Centre, Nottingham

23 March, Saad Qureshi, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham

23 March, Fascinating Finds from Nottingham's Caves, University of Nottingham Museum

23 March,Peep Show, Bennington Gallery, Nottingham

23 March, Shahnawaz Hussain, Bennington Gallery, Nottingham

23 March, Osheen Siva, Bennington Gallery, Nottingham

23 March, Debsyo Bolaji, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

24 March, Jason Wilsher-Mills, Lincoln Museum

12 April, When Forms Come Alive,  Hayward Gallery, London

12 April, Virginia Verran, Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, London

12 April, Secundino Hernández , Victoria Miro Gallery, London

12 April, Neal Rock, New Art Projects, London

12 April, Salvador Dali, Clarendon Fine Art, London

12 April, Unravel, Barbican, London

12 April, Soufiane Ababri, Barbican, London

12 April, Ibrahim Mahama, Barbican, London

12 April, Lobert Zandvilet, Grimm, London

12 April, Reina Sugihara, Arcadia Misa, London

12 April, Marria Pratts Carl Kostyal, London

12 April, Richard Serra,David Zwirner, London 

12 April, Marcelina Akpojotor, Rele, London

12 April, Fathi Hassan,Richard Saltoun, London 

12 April, Erwin Wurm,Thaddaeus Ropac, London 

12 April, Harold Cohen, Gazelli Art House, London 

12 April, Adam Pendleton, Galerie Max Hetzler, London 

12 April, Nancy Haynes,  Marlborough, London 

12 April, Shizuko Yoshikawa, Marlborough, London

12 April, Shizuko Yoshikawa and Bridget Riley, Marlborough, London

12 April, Betty Parsons,Alison Jacques, London 

12 April, Woody De Othello, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 

12 April, Peter Blake,  Waddington Custot Galleries, London

12 April, Standing in the Gap, Goodman Gallery, London 

12 April, Ulla von Brandenburg, Pilar Corrias, London 

12 April, Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Goodman Gallery, London

12 April, The Leisure Centre, The Brown Collection, London 

12 April, Shine On,Sadie Coles HQ Davies St, London

12 April, Albert Oehlen, Gagosian, London 

12 April, Gavin Turk, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London 

12 April, François Morellet,Annely Juda Fine Art, London 

12 April, Thomas Allen, Ronchini Gallery, London 

12 April, Darya Diamond, Pippy Houldsworth, London

12 April, Li Hei Di, Pippy Houldsworth, London

12 April, Florence Hutchings, Redfern Gallery, London

12 April, Marilyn Lerner, Spruth Magers, London

12 April, Barabara Kruger, Spruth Magers, London

12 April, Edward Burtynsky, Flowers, London

12 April, Terry Frost, Flowers, London

12 April, Cinthia Marcelle,Sprovieri, London 

12 April, Matthias Groebel,Gathering, London 

12 April, Raqs Media Collective, Frith Street Gallery, London 

12 April, Kati Heck, Sadie Coles, London

17 April, Trim, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

26 April, Marking Time, General Practice, Lincoln

8 May, Cache 05, Anglia Storage, Lincoln

8 May, Sacred Spaces, St Peter and Gowt, Lincoln

8 May, Parting of the Minds, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

8 May, Paul Letchworth, Gallery St. Martin's, Lincoln

11 May, Anna Reading, Uffington Notice Board

12 May, Common Ground, Uffington Village Hall

15 Ma, Groundings, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

29 May, Caravaggio, St Johns Cathedral, Valletta

31 May, Durer, Mdina Cathedral Museum

31 May, Joe Pellegrini Petit Collection, Wignacourt Museum, Rabat

31 May, Anton Agius, Wignacourt Museum, Rabat

4 June, Now I'm Here, Later I'll be There, Cadman studios, Stoke on Trent

7 June, Come to Fruition, Peter de Wint Building, Lincoln

18 June, Meet the Future, Grosvenor Building, Manchester

18 June, A to Z and Back Again, Holden Gallery, Manchester

19 June, Counter Culture, Djnogoly Gallery, Nottingham

19 June, John Newling, Lakeside Gallery, Nottingham

2 July, Oliver Ventress, General Practice, Lincoln

10 July, Sense of Belonging, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

12 July, Donald G. Rodney, Spike Island, Bristol

12 July, Aperiodic, Kit Form Gallery, Bristol

20th July, Text and Texture, General Practice, Lincoln

24th July, Resonating Museum Walls, Lincoln Museum

6 August, The Time is Always Now, The Box, Plymouth

16 August, Al Held White Cube Bermondsey, London

16 August, Joe Bloom, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London

16 August, Muhammad Zeeshan, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London

16 August, Rahima Gambo, Gasworks, London

16 August, Steve Klee, WIP Space, London

16 August, Nudge it, Terrace Gallery, London

16 August, Guild, Fillet space, London

16 August, Francis Alÿs, Barbican, London

16 August, Meera Shakti Osborne, Peer, London

16 August, Steph Huang, Tate Britain, London

16 August, Alvaro Barrington, Tate Britain, London

16 August, Keith Piper and Rex, Tate Britain, London

16 August, Franciska Themerson, Tate Britain, London

16 August, Balraj Khanna, Tate Britain, London

16 August, Henry Moore and Francis Bacon, Tate Britain, London

17 August, Songs of the Open Road, Halycon, London

17 August, London Pictures, Gilbert and George Centre, London

17 August, Damien Hirst, Phillips, London

17 August, Supernova, Flowers, London

17 August, Asi Joy Samuel and Claudia Yu, Frieze no. 9, London

17 August, Yinka Shonibare, Serpentine Gallery, London

17 August, Judy Chicago, Serpentine Gallery, London

17 August, Minsuk Cho, Serpentine Gallery, London

17 August, Gerhard Richter, Serpentine Gallery, London

17 August, Agnes Scherer,  Sadie Coles, London

17 August, Matthew Barney,  Sadie Coles, London

17 August, Isabella Ducrot, Sadie Coles HQ, London

17 August, Bertolt Brecht, Raven Row, London

17 August, Phantom Hymn, Modern Art, London

17 August, Awaken Metamagical Hand, Gazelli Art House, London

7 August, Roe Ethridge Gagosian, Davies St, London

17 August, Minoru Nomata, White Cube Mason’s Yard, London

17 August, Dominique White, Whitechapel Gallery, London

17 August, Archipelago: Winds in Orbit, Whitechapel Gallery, London

17 August, Peter Kennard, Whitechapel Gallery, London

18 August, Yoko Ono, Tate Modern, London

18 August, Jannis Kounnelius, Tate Modern, London

18 August, Inside Job (the Tate Staff Biennale), Tate Modern, London

18 August, Art and Text, Tate Modern, London

18 August, Gillie and Marc, St. Pauls, London

18 August, Lina Iris Viktor, Sir John Soane Museum, London

23 August, Nick Simpson, General Practice, Lincoln

23 August, What? Now, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

31st August, The Kola Nut Cannot be Contained, Welcome Collection, London

31st August, Being Human, Welcome Collection, London

31st August, Jason Wilsher-Mills, Welcome Collection, London

31st August, Penny Slinger, Richard Saltourn, London

31st August, Grace Weaver, Max Hetzler, London

31st August, Rheim Alkadhi, ICA, London

31st August, Vanessa Bell, Courtauld Institute, London

31st August, Henry Moore, Courtauld Institute, London

31st August, Tavares Strachan, Hayward Gallery, London

31st August, Graham Crowley, Domobaal, London

31st August, Contemporary collecting David Hockney to Cornelia Parker, British Museum, London

31st August, Rembrandt and his Children, British Museum, London

31st August, Liorah Tchiprout, Pippy Houldsworth, London

31st August, Hockney and Piereo: A Longer Look, National Gallery, London

31st August, Discover Degas and Miss La La, National Gallery, London

31st August, Don Brown, Sadie Coles, London

1st September, Ed Clark, Turner Contemporary, Margate

1st September, Lynda Benglis, Turner Contemporary, Margate

1st September, Portfolio X Windmill Community Gardens, Turner Contemporary, Margate

9th September, MA Fine Art show, University of Northampton

11th September, MA Fine Art show, Staffordshire University

13 September, Take one A Day, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

14 September, Erica Eyres, Turntable Gallery, Grimsby

14 September, Dale Alcock, Unseen Arts, Grimsby

16 September, MA Design Degree Show, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

20 September, Lubna Chowdhary, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

20 September, PostNatures, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

20 September, Colour, Form and Line, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

20 September, A Passion for Prints, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

20 September, Odilon Redon, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

20 September, Art and Identity, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

20 September, We Are The Monument, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

20 September, Show Your Metal, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

20 September, Tess Jaray, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

20 September, Festival of the MindMillennium Gallery, Sheffield

20 September, Festival of the Mind, Persistence Works, Sheffield

20 September, Jack Grinno, Gloam, Sheffield

27 September, Jake Williams, General Practice, Lincoln

10 October, Dan Rapley, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

18 October, Joe Duggan, Russel Square Gardens, London

18 October, Braque, Matisse, Picasso, London

18 October, Elizabeth Magill, Anthony Wilkinson, London

18 October, Douglas Abdell, Ab-Anbar, London

18 October, Murray Clarke, Nahmad Projects, London

18 October, Kehinde Wiley, Stephen Friedman, London

18 October, Fabienne Verdier, Waddington Custot, London

18 October, Susie Hamilton, Paul Stolper Gallery, London

18 October, Hew Locke - What Have We Here?, British Museum, London

18 October, Mathew Cerletty, Herald St, London

18 October, 5 Years, Maximillian William, London

18 October, Pei Wang, Workplace, London

18 October, The Stars Fell on Alabama, Edel Assanti, London

18 October, Jonas Wood, Gagosian, London

18 October, Yelena Popova, IONE & MANN Gallery, London

18 October, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Pilar Corrias, London

18 October, Golds, Ordovas, London

18 October, Jack Whitten, Hauser & Wirth, London

18 October, George Rouy, Hauser & Wirth, London

18 October, Austin Lee, Carl Kostyal, London

18 October, Ella Walker, Pilar Corrias, London

18 October, Alison Wilding, Alison Jacques, London

18 October, Lygia Clark, Alison Jacques, London

18 October, Kapwani Kiwanga, Goodman Gallery, London

18 October, Gary Hume, Sprüth Magers. London

18 October, Anthony McCall, Sprüth Magers, London

18 October, Oscar Murillo, David Zwirner, London

18 October, Pouran Jinchi, Gazelli Art House, London

18 October, Ruba Salameh, Gazelli Art House, London

18 October, Libby Heaney, Gazelli Art House, London

18 October, Heemin Chung, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

18 October, Robert Longo, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

18 October, Danh Vo, White Cube Mason’s Yard, London

18 October, Magdalene Odundo, Thomas Dane, London

18 October, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Vigo gallery, London

18 October, Terry Adkins, Thomas Dane, London

18 October, René Daniëls, Modern Art Bury Street, London

18 October, Jordan Wolfson,  Sadie Coles, London

18 October, Urs Fischer, Sadie Coles HQ Kingly St, London

18 October, Marlene Dumas, Frith Street Gallery, London

18 October, Freelands Painting Prize 2024, Freelands Foundation, London

18 October, Hew Locke, Hales Gallery, London

18 October, Helene Appel, The Approach, London

18 October, Germaine Kruip, The Approach, London

18 October, Gary Hume, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London

18 October, Simryn Gill, Richard Saltourn, London

18 October, The Look, Transition Projects, London

24 October, Georgie Jones, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

25 October, Grayson Perry, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham

25 October, Paula Rego, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham

25 October, Race and the League of Nations, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham

25 October, Donald G Rodney, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham

25 October, After the End of History, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham

25 October, Assunta Ruocco, TG, Nottingham

25 October, Mohammad Barrangi, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

25 October, Mailnish Harijan, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

25 October, Dorothy Bohm, Beam, Nottingham

25 October, The Last Horror Show, Nottingham

1 November, Anne Stanfield, General Practice, Lincoln

[annemariewrites]

List of all the books I’ve read

just wanted to keep a list of what I’ve read throughout my life (that I can remember)

Fiction:

“Where the Red Fern Grows,” Wilson Rawls

“The Outsiders,” SE Hinton

“The Weirdo,” Theodore Taylor

“The Devil’s Arithmetic,” Jane Yolen

“Julie of the Wolves series,” Jean Craighead George

“Soft Rain,” Cornelia Cornelissen

“Island of the Blue Dolphins,” Scott O’Dell

“The Twilight series,” Stephanie Mayer

“To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee

“Gamer Girl,” Mari Mancusi

“Redwall / Mossflower / Mattimeo / Mariel of Redwall,” Brian Jacques

“1984,” and  “Animal Farm,” George Orwell

“Killing Mr. Griffin,” Lois Duncan

“Huckleberry Finn,” Mark Twain

“Rainbow’s End,” Irene Hannon

“Cold Mountain,” Charles Frazier

“Between Shades of Gray,” Ruta Sepetys

“Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe,” Edgar Allan Poe

“Lord of the Flies,” William Golding

“The Great Gatsby,” F Scott Fitzgerald

“The Harry Potter series,” JK Rowling

“The Fault in Our Stars,” “Looking for Alaska,” and “Paper Towns,” John Green

“Thirteen Reasons Why,” Jay Asher

“The Hunger Games series,” Suzanne Collins

“The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” Stephen Chbosky

“Fifty Shades of Grey,” EL James

“Speak,” and “Wintergirls,” Laurie Halse Anderson

“The Handmaid’s Tale,” Margaret Atwood

“Mama Day,” Gloria Naylor

“Jane Eyre,” Charlotte Bronte

“Wide Sargasso Sea,” Jean Rhys

“The Haunting of Hill House,” Shirley Jackson

“The Chosen,” Chaim Potok

“Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman

“Till We Have Faces,” CS Lewis

“One Foot in Eden,” Ron Rash

“Jim the Boy,” Tony Earley

“The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox,” Maggie O’Farrell

“A Land More Kind Than Home,” Wiley Cash

“A Parchment of Leaves,” Silas House

“Beowulf,” Seamus Heaney

“The Silence of the Lambs / Red Dragon / Hannibal / Hannibal Rinsing,” Thomas Harris

“Cry the Beloved Country,” Alan Paton

“Moby Dick,” Herman Melville

“The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings trilogy / The Silmarillion,” JRR Tolkien

“Beren and Luthien,” JRR Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien

“Children of Blood and Bone / Children of Virtue and Vengeance,” Tomi Adeyemi

“Soundless,” Richelle Mead

“The Girl with the Louding Voice,” Abi Dare

“A Song of Ice and Fire series / Fire and Blood,” GRR Martin

“A Separate Peace,” John Knowles

“The Bluest Eye,” and “Beloved,” Toni Morrison

“Brave New World,” Aldous Huxley

“The Giver / Gathering Blue / Messenger / Son,” Lois Lowry

“The Ivory Carver trilogy,” Sue Harrison

“The Grapes of Wrath,” and “Of Mice and Men,” John Steinbeck

“The God of Small Things,” Arundhati Roy

“Fahrenheit 451,” Ray Bradbury

“The Night Circus,” Erin Morgenstern

“Sunflower Dog,” Kevin Winchester

‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” Betty Smith

“The Catcher in the Rye,” JD Salinger

“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” Sherman Alexie

“Bridge to Terabithia,” Katherine Paterson

“The Good Girl,” Mary Kubica 

“The Last Unicorn,” Peter S Beagle

“Slaughterhouse Five,” Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The Joy Luck Club,” Amy Tan

“The Sworn Virgin,” Kristopher Dukes

“The Color Purple,” Alice Walker

“Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Zora Neale Hurston

“The Light Between Oceans,” ML Stedman

“Yellowface,” RF Kuang

“A Flicker in the Dark,” Stacy Willingham

“One Piece Novel: Ace’s Story,” Sho Hinata

“Black Beauty,” Anna Seawell

“The Weight of Blood,” Tiffany D. Jackson

“Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China,” Hualing Nieh, Sau-ling Wong

“The Weight of Blood,” Laura McHugh

Non-fiction:

“Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl,” Anne Frank

“Night,” Elie Wiesel

“Invisible Sisters,” Jessica Handler

“I Am Malala,” Malala Yousafzai

“The Interesting Narrative,” Olaudah Equiano

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” Rebecca Skloot

“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” Harriet Jacobs

“The Princess Diarist,” Carrie Fisher

“Adulting: How to Become a Grown Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps,” Kelly Williams Brown

“How to Win Friends and Influence People,” Dale Carnegie

“Carrie Fisher: a Life on the Edge,” Sheila Weller

“Make ‘Em Laugh,” Debbie Reynolds and Dorian Hannaway

“How to be an Anti-Racist,” Ibram X Kendi

“Maus,” Art Spiegelman

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou

“Wise Gals: the Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage,” Nathalia Holt

“Persepolis,” and “Persepolis II,” Marjane Satrapi

“How to Write a Novel,” Manuel Komroff

“The Nazi Genocide of the Roma,” Anton Weiss-Wendt

“Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz,” Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel

“Two Watches,” Anita Tarlton

“The Ages of the Justice League: Essays on America’s Greatest Superheroes in Changing Times,” edited by Joseph J. Darowski

[iamapoopmuffin]

Hello and Welcome to 'I share the silly entrance animations for my silly wrestler characters and encourage you to make assumptions about them as people based purely on these videos' where exactly that and @randomfrog2 encouraged me to so here you all go. Links will be filled over time, I couldn't record or upload them all in one go.

Under the cut because between 2k22 and 2k23 there Will eventually be 200 of them total

Abatai 'Abby' Xiao

Ace Dominguez

Adalia Mitchell/Adalia Undead

Adam Cooke/Adam Frankenstein

Adelaide Anderson

Adriel Duffy

Aidan Seeds

Aiko Yamamoto

Aisling Miller

Alan Burgess/The Necromancer

Alexis Thurston

Alfie Winchester

Alfonse 'Avalanche' Boucher

Alfonso Price/Alpha Ali

Alicia Tigner

Alyssa Evans

Amos Wellworth/The Purple Pig

Andy Poux/Andy Scathe

Angelina Manhardt

Archie Robinson/Archie Eagle

Ash Daugherty/The Rubber Chicken Man

Aster Chadha/The Spider

Audriana Parrakkal/The Phantom

Augustus de Blaauw

Aura Hilton

Austin Kirwan/Austin England

Ayanna Mariani

Bartholomew Reeves

Beatrice Lipe

Bertie Bronner

Betsy-Ann Sol

Blaire Wilcox

Brea Orko

Brook Edghort/Captain Brook Edghort

Bruno 'The Felon' Fraser

Bryant 'The Harpy' Tremblay

Caius Pabon

Carlene Skrzypczynski

Cheryl Vogel

Clemence Maurer

Clifford Gilbert

Colin Almarez/Mint Man Almarez

Colt Smiley

Constance Cole

Cooper Carnocan/The Janitor

Damien Kudlinski

Darin Ahmed

Davina Finister

Demetrius Kappotis

Dempsey Blair

Deodatus Bisnett

Dewey Roll/Cottonmouth

Dick Dexter/Dickhead Dexter

Dmitri Pavlov/Glowmaster

Donald Ripa/Queen Ripa

Dympna Lammchen

Edd Woods

Elina Baene/Swamp Witch Elina

Elton Maldonado

Elvira Leithead/Elvira Flash

Elwood McLaren

Elysia Brunner

Emerald Ashley

Erica Shooter/Naughty Nurse Shooter

Ernesto Curry

Evan Stewart/Evan Galaxium

Everly Leigh

Ezio Fahim

Fae Nicholas

Fia Matthews/The Jester

Floyd Gossard/Heartstopper Gossard

Ford Gossard/Showstopper Gossard

Gayle Mokriy

Genevieve Lee/Snake Princess

Gerard Apple

Ginnie Davey

Greg McCarthy/Superstar Greg McCarthy

Guadalupe Batchelor

Harith Rammurthy/Talon Rammurthy

Harry Moore/Machine Gun Harold

Hettie McCormack/Pookie Bunny

Ianthe Jennings/Ianthe Plague

Ilene Fanshaw

Indiana Stone

Indigo Wilson

Indira Doxtator

Isabel Abbeglen

Ishaan Prabhu

Ivo Carrico/Portuguese Man O' War

Jacques Smith

Jak McNicholas

Javon George/The Pimp Javon

Jeana Quinn

Jebediah Oprea

Jeremy Cruz

Jimmie Hutton

Jock Kelly

Joey Duvall/Joey D

Jonas Gabriel/Fox Gabriel

Jordan Barr

Kaden Dunlap

Kailey Samuels

Kanon Ozawa

Kaori Flores

Karter John

Kasumi Wellard

Katrina Giraud

Kehlani Who

Kelby Kadeer/King Kelby

Kenneth Christmas/Fly Boy Kenny

Kimberley Wainwright

Kiyomi Roman

Kori Hernandez

Kyra Padhi

Langdon Mass

Lenore Dillard

Liang Tao

Lillia Robertson

Lilly Ansa/Lilith Ansa

Lincoln Swinton

Lionel Connor

Lisa Belrose

Liz Schlachter

Louis Bridget/Big Baby

Lukas Craveiro/Senator Lukas Craveiro

Maddison Toxtle/Toxic Maddi

Maia Smith

Marci Britt

Marcus Gardiner

Margarita Harrison

Mariella Gillet/Iron Kitten

Marina Gonzo

Mavis Payton/The Blushing Bride

Meena Gacitua

Meghan Schreck

Mim McHoney

Mitsuki Ootani/Bon Bon Bunny

Myles Neil/Steamboat Willie

Nancy Sharp

Nelly James

Netty Richardson

Norma 'The Doll' Laskey

Nyx Vanderhoff

Ollie Logan/Witch Doctor Logan

Pancake Spryert

Pam Eisen

Perry 'The Worm' Ticehurst

Princess Warren

Quiana Billings

Quincey Crabb

Reabetswe Okonjo

Reilly Jeppe

Ruby Ankney

Rufus Robby

Rupert English/Rupert Beauty

Sable Bow

Samantha Trapp

Samuel Perryman

Sasha Fedosov/Adorable Aleksander

Shayne Zaveri

Sheridan Lowe/Rosebud Lowe

Sloane Koskic

Sofie Tanner

Sommer Chauhan

Sparrow Martin

Stacey Jacobs/The Metal Mouth Maniac

Stephen Shabnur/Kitty Stephen

Sunny Cockerill

Sven Miller Garrett

Tabitha Valot/T Valentine

Teri Cullen

Ursula Benjamin

Verity Ahmed/Gremlin Ahmed

Victoria Wangdi/Princess Victoria Wang

Vivi Masters

Walter Cauley

Willis 'Turbo Fox' Judd

Xandria Cruz

Yaoting Duan

[alexlacquemanne]

Juillet MMXXIII

Films

Indiana Jones et le Cadran de la destinée (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) (2023) de James Mangold avec Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, John Rhys-Davies, Thomas Kretschmann et Boyd Holbrook

Un mariage de rêve (Easy Virtue) (2008) de Stephan Elliott avec Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth, Kimberley Nixon, Katherine Parkinson et Kris Marshall

Douze Heures d'horloge (1959) de Géza von Radványi avec Lino Ventura, Laurent Terzieff, Hannes Messemer, Eva Bartok, Lucien Raimbourg, Suzy Prim, Gert Fröbe et Guy Tréjan

Dies iræ (2003) d'Alexandre Astier avec Tony Saba, Thomas Cousseau, Lionnel Astier, Alexis Hénon, Nicolas Gabion, Franck Pitiot, Jean-Christophe Hembert, Alexandre Astier, Jean-Robert Lombard et Jacques Chambon

La Vérité sur Bébé Donge (1952) d'Henri Decoin avec Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Gabrielle Dorziat, Claude Génia, Marcel André, Jacques Castelot et Daniel Lecourtois

Sorcerer (1977) de William Friedkin avec Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou, Ramon Bieri, Peter Capell, Karl John et Friedrich von Ledebur

La moutarde me monte au nez (1974) de Claude Zidi avec Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Claude Piéplu, Jean Martin, Danielle Minazzoli, Vittorio Caprioli, Julien Guiomar et Henri Guybet

Mission impossible : Dead Reckoning, partie 1 (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One) (2023) de Christopher McQuarrie avec Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell et Pom Klementieff

Demain ne meurt jamais (Tomorrow Never Dies) (1997) de Roger Spottiswoode avec Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Ricky Jay, Götz Otto et Joe Don Baker

Plus dure sera la chute (The Harder They Fall) (1956) de Mark Robson avec Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Nehemiah Persoff, Mike Lane, Jan Sterling et Max Baer

La Guerre des polices (1979) de Robin Davis avec Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, Marlène Jobert, Georges Staquet, Jean-François Stévenin, Étienne Chicot, David Jalil, Gérard Desarthe, Jean Rougerie et Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Oppenheimer (2023) de Christopher Nolan avec Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek et Kenneth Branagh

L'Odyssée de Pi (Life of Pi) (2012) d'Ang Lee avec Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Ayush Tandon, Tabu, Adil Hussain, Ayan Khan, Vibish Sivakumar et Rafe Spall

L'Histoire d'Adèle H. (1975) de François Truffaut avec Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley, Ivry Gitlis et Ruben Dorey

Meurs un autre jour (Die Another Day) (2002) de Lee Tamahori avec Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike et Rick Yune

La Tulipe noire (1964) de Christian-Jaque avec Alain Delon, Virna Lisi, Dawn Addams, Akim Tamiroff, Adolfo Marsillach, Robert Manuel et Francis Blanche

Séries

Friends Saison 10

Celui qui n'arrivait pas à se confier - Celui qui allait très bien - Celui qui avait décidé de bronzer - Celui qui transformait le gâteau d'anniversaire - Celui qui écrivait une lettre de recommandation - Celui qui a failli avoir la subvention - Celui qui bluffait l'assistante sociale - Celui qui ratait Thanksgiving - Ceux qui rencontraient la mère biologique - Celui qui se faisait coincer - Celui qui trahissait le pacte - Celui qui jouait le rôle du père - Celui qui baragouinait - Celui qui n'aimait pas la maison - Celui qui faisait tout pour retenir Rachel - Celui qui n'aimait pas les adieux - Ceux qui s'en allaient

Inspecteur Barnaby Saison 10

Danse avec la mort - L'Oncle d'Amérique - La Chasse au trésor - Le Blues de l'assassin - Le Flash de la mort - Le Télescope de la mort

Coffre à Catch

#122 : Finlay prend la trique et Ichtou jette l'éponge ! - #123 : Finlay à domicile pour le titre ECW ! - #124 : Les Survivor Series : Des bangers en veux-tu en voilà! - #125 : Beliaroth INFILTRE l'Univers d'Agius! - #126 : MVP et Matt Hardy: de partenaires à adversaires !

Kaamelott Livre I

Le Duel - L'Invasion viking - La Bataille rangée - La Romance de Perceval - Les Funérailles d'Ulfin - Le Chevalier femme - La Carte - Le Repas de famille - Le Répurgateur - Le Labyrinthe - Heat - Les Tartes aux myrtilles - La Table de Breccan - Le Chevalier mystère - Le Fléau de Dieu - Le Garde du corps - Des nouvelles du monde - Codes et Stratégies - Le Maître d’armes - Le Négociateur - Dîner dansant - Le Sixième Sens - Arthur et la Question - Monogame - Les Défis de Merlin - Le Banquet des chefs - Le Signe - En forme de Graal - Le Repos du guerrier - La Dent de requin - La Taxe militaire - La Queue du scorpion - La Potion de fécondité - L’Interprète - Le Sacrifice - À la volette - De retour de Judée - La Botte secrète - L’Assassin de Kaamelott - Le Trois de cœur - Basidiomycètes - L’Imposteur - Compagnons de chambrée - La Grotte de Padraig - Ambidextrie - Raison d’argent - La Romance de Lancelot - Merlin et les Loups - Le Cas Yvain - L’Adoubement - Arthur et les Ténèbres - Le Zoomorphe - La Coccinelle de Madenn - Patience dans la plaine - Le Oud - Le Code de chevalerie - Létal - Azénor - Le Sort de rage - Les Nouveaux Frères - Enluminures - Haunted - Le Secret de Lancelot - Le Serpent géant - Guenièvre et les Oiseaux - Le Dernier Empereur - Perceval relance de quinze - Le Coup d’épée - La Jupe de Calogrenant - Le Prodige du fakir - Un bruit dans la nuit - Feu l’âne de Guethenoc - Goustan le Cruel - Le Chaudron rutilant - La Visite d’Ygerne - Les Clandestins - La Kleptomane - Le Pain - La Mort le Roy Artu - Le Problème du chou - Un roi à la taverne - Les Fesses de Guenièvre - Le Billet doux - Guenièvre et l’Orage - Eunuques et Chauds Lapins - Choc frontal - Le Forage - Le Discobole - L’Expurgation de Merlin - Les Volontaires - Polymorphie - Décibels nocturnes - La Fête de l’hiver - Gladiator - La Blessure mortelle - Le Dragon des tunnels - Retour de campagne - L’Escorte - Tel un chevalier - La Pâte d’amande - La Fureur du dragon - Vox populi - Unagi - L’Éclaireur - Lacrimosa - La Quête des deux renards - Agnus Dei - Le Tourment - La Retraite - La Vraie Nature du Graal

Affaires Sensibles

Le Tour de France fantôme - Tom Simpson : une funeste passion - Lance Armstrong, le héros déchu - 21 juillet 1969 : objectif Lune

Castle Saison 2

Une rose pour l’éternité - Le Contrat - Le Troisième Homme - Le Batteur battu - Journal d'une dominatrice - Messages par balles - La Mort de Nikki - La Malédiction de la momie

Orgueil et Préjugés

Episode 1 - Episode 2 - Episode 3 - Episode 4 - Episode 5 - Episode 6

Raison et Sentiments

Episode 1 - Episode 2 - Episode 3

Spectacles

John Fogerty : Premonition (1997)

Eddy Mitchell au Casino de Paris (1990)

Livres

Pourquoi vous faisez ça ? de Pablo Mira

Gaston , Tome 2 de André Franquin et Jidékeur

Le péplum, un mauvais genre de Claude Aziza

Hero Corp, Tome 2 : Chroniques de Simon Astier, Louis et Stéphane Créty

[haitianhistory]

Today in Haitian History - January 7, 1946 – First day of the Five Glorious Days or of the Haitian Revolution of 1946

After a presidency plagued by controversy, Haitian head of state Élie Lescot was ousted in what some historians like Matthew J. Smith (2004) have interpreted as a “popular overthrow against a U.S.-supported dictatorship led by local radicals.” Initially student-led, for five days between January 7th and 11th 1946, popular dissatisfaction with the Lescot government, deemed fascist by some and accused of serving the interests of the “mulâtre” oligarchy by others, led to a series of important strikes in Port-au-Prince and elsewhere in the country. If the Haitian Revolution of 1946 was radical and indeed revolutionary in some way, beyond the diversity of political opinions it generated, it is likely because it showcased an unparalleled level of solidarity between various sectors of Haitian society which had been profoundly divided around political and color lines, particularly since the last decades of the U.S. Marine Occupation of Haiti. More than simply involving members of the radical student publication La Ruche (such as René Depestre, Jacques Stephen Alexis and the late Gérald Bloncourt), the 1946 Revolution liberated the speech of various Marxist associations previously banned and notably that of noiriste intellectuals who had been arguing since the late 1930s for a black presidency, thought more representative of Haiti’s black majority. In a time of euphoria and political mobilisation, the goal of freeing the country of Lescot ultimately united individuals who, years before and shortly after the 1946 window, were and would continue to be bitter enemies.

This “camaraderie” between the more leftist elements of Haitian society and their noiriste counterparts as said was short-lived. By August 1946, Dumarsais Estimé, a former school teacher, was elected president of the Republic following an intervention by the Haitian army which increasingly acted as an arbitrator in politics. The Revolution of 1946 and Estimé’s election would be reinterpreted by the noiriste camp and notably by François Duvalier, who become president of Haiti a decade later, as a noiriste Revolution and a noiriste victory, the complexity of the movement therefore lost.

First Image: Antoine Hérard (next to microphone) announcing Gérald Bloncourt (with white shirt). // Second Image: (From left to right) Jacques-Stephen Alexis, Georges Beaufils, Gérald Bloncourt, Théodore Baker et Gérard Chenet. January 1946, Haiti. Images Courtesy: île en île.

[juno7haiti]

Jacques Stéphen Alexis revit à l’UNESCO

Jacques Stéphen Alexis revit à l’UNESCO.- #Juno7 #J7Avr2022

La Délégation permanente d’Haïti et l’UNESCO ont organisé, le vendredi 22 avril 2022, jour du centenaire de naissance du médecin et écrivain haïtien Jacques Stephen Alexis, une table ronde hybride à la Maison de l’UNESCO à Paris, autour du thème “Jacques Stephen Alexis et la Belle Amour Humaine”, en présence d’une cinquantaine d’Ambassadeurs et représentants de nombreuses délégations, de membres…

[netalkolemedia]

Une série d'activité annoncé par le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication pour célébrer le centenaire de Jacques Stephen Alexis 

Une série d’activité annoncé par le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication pour célébrer le centenaire de Jacques Stephen Alexis 

S’il était encore en vie, Jacques Stephen Alexis aurait fêté ce 22 avril 2022, son 100e anniversaire. Tué sous la dictature de Duvalier en 1961, cet illustre écrivain haïtien aura droit, à titre posthume, à une pléiade d’activité tout au long de ce mois d’avril, pour commémorer le centenaire de celui qui est considéré comme l’un des plus grandes figures de la littérature…

[coeurbruler]

Il me fait épouser la courbe de la lumière. Il m'explique le chant des oiseaux. Il est force, il est sel, il est esprit, il est beauté unique...

Chronique d'un faux amour, Jacques Stéphen Alexis.

[tournoi-francophone]

Certaines de mes oeuvres francophones préférées :

Les Misérables, Quatrevingt-treize (Victor Hugo) Nadja (André Breton) Les chants de Maldoror (Lautréamont) L'enfant de la haute mer, Le forçat innocent, Les amis inconnus (Supervielle) L'automne à Pekin, L'écume des jours (Boris Vian) Antigone (Anouilh) Le misanthrope, Dom Juan (Molière) Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand) Ondine, La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (Giraudoux) La bête humaine, Germinal, Au bonheur des dames (Zola) Manuel de savoir-vivre à l'usage des rustres et des malpolis (Desproges) Le Horla (Maupassant) Claudine à l'école, Claudine à Paris (Colette) L'oeil du loup (Daniel Pennac) De cape et de crocs (Ayroles / Masbou) Comment Wang-Fo fut sauvé (Marguerite Yourcenar) L'île mystérieuse, 20000 lieues sous les mers (Jules Verne) Les fleurs du mal (Baudelaire) L'arbre à soleils (Henri Gougaud) La passe-miroir (Christelle Dabos) Les dingodossiers (Goscinny / Gotlib) Malpertuis, Les derniers contes de Canterbury (Jean Ray) Archives des anges (Alix de Saint-André) Du domaine des murmires (Carole Martinez) A la mystérieuse, Fortunes (Robert Desnos) Les animaux dénaturés, Contes des cataplasmes (Vercors) Sambre (Yslaire) 38 mini-westerns avec des fantomes (Mathias Malzieu) Les liaisons dangereuses (Laclos) Alcools (Apollinaire) Chansons (Maeterlinck) Gaspard de la nuit (Aloysius Bertrand) Mémoires de Louise Michel écrits par elle-même (Louise Michel) Romancero aux étoiles (Jacques Stephen Alexis)

Aaaah y’en a tellement !! Merciiii!

[agardenandlibrary]

Island Heart by Ida Faubert, translated from French by Danielle Legros Georges | Sub Press

General Sun, My Brother by Jacques Stephen Alexis, translated from French by Carrol F. Coates | CARAF Books, University of Virginia Press

Love, Anger, Madness by Marie Vieux-Chauvet, translated from French by Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokur | Modern Library

Massacre River by René Philoctète, translated from French by Linda Coverdale | New Directions

Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre, translated from French by Kaiama L. Glover | Akashic Books

Aunt Résia and the Spirits, and Other Stories by Yanick Lahens, translated from French by Elizabeth “Betty” Wilson | CARAF Books, University of Virginia Press

The Infamous Rosalie by Évelyne Trouillot, translated from French by Marjorie Attignol Salvodon | University of Nebraska Press

Wandering Memory by Jan J. Dominique, translated from French by Emma Donovan Page | CARAF Books, University of Virginia Press

The Mediterranean Wall by Louis-Philippe Dalembert, translated from French by Marjolijn de Jager | Schaffner Press

The Immortals by Makenzy Orcel, translated from French by Nathan H. Dize | SUNY Press

[jays-haiti-lit-blog2]

Masters of the Dew

         The genre of the peasant novel in Haiti reaches back to the nineteenth century and this is one of the outstanding examples. Manuel returns to his native village after working on a sugar plantation in Cuba only to discover that it is stricken by a drought and divided by a family feud. He attacks the resignation endemic among his people by preaching the kind of political awareness and solidarity he has learned in Cuba. He goes on to illustrate his ideas in a tangible way by finding water and bringing it to the fields through the collective labor of the villagers. In this political fable, Roumain is careful to create an authentic environment and credible characters. Readers will be emotionally moved as well as ideologically (from google books.com) persuaded.

Haiti Nior 2: The Classics

Edwidge Danticat's short story from Haiti Noir 2: The Classics, "The Port-au-Prince Marriage Special," was included in Ms. Magazine's Fall 2013 issue.

"A worthy sequel that skillfully uses a popular genre to help us better understand an often frustratingly complex and indecipherable society."

--Miami Herald

"There is danger and regret and fear in these stories, as characters try to negotiate a complex and often confounding land."

--Miami Herald, Feature on Haiti Noir 2 Miami launch

"Presents an excellent array of writers, primarily Haitian, whose graphic descriptions portray a country ravaged by corruption, crime, and mystery....This selection of Haitian classics is a must read for everyone."

--The Caribbean Writer ( from amazon.com)

American Street

            A New York Times Notable Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book Of All Time* Publishers Weekly Flying Start * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice of 2017 (Top of the List winner) * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * BookPage Best YA Book of the Year

An evocative and powerful coming-of-age story perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jason Reynolds

In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart-nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical exploration of America with magical realism and vodou culture.

On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie—a good life.

But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola’s mother is detained by U.S. immigration, leaving Fabiola to navigate her loud American cousins, Chantal, Donna, and Princess; the grittiness of Detroit’s west side; a new school; and a surprising romance, all on her own.

Just as she finds her footing in this strange new world, a dangerous proposition presents itself, and Fabiola soon realizes that freedom comes at a cost. Trapped at the crossroads of an impossible choice, will she pay the price for the American dream?  (from google books.com) 

              General Sun, my brother

he first novel of the Haitian novelist Jacques Stephen Alexis, General Sun, My Brother appears here for the first time in English. Its depiction of the nightmarish journey of the unskilled laborer Hilarion and his wife from the slums of Port-au-Prince to the cane fields of the Dominican Republic has brought comparisons to the work of Emile Zola, André Malraux, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway.

Alexis, whose mother was a descendant of the Revolutionary General Jean-Jacques Dessalines, was already a mature thinker when he published General Sun, My Brother (Compère Général Soleil) in France in 1955. A militant Marxist himself, Alexis championed a form of the "marvelous realism" developed by the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, who called for a vision of historical reality from the standpoint of slaves for whom the supernatural was as much a part of everyday experience as were social and other existential realities. (from google books.com) 

Dear Haiti, Love Alaine

Dear Haiti, Love Alaine is the debut novel of co-authors Maritza and Maika Moulite. The 2019 young adult fiction tells the story of a high schooler Alaine Beauparlant, who visits her parent’s homeland, Haiti, for the first time. She falls in love with the country, discovers a family curse and meets an attractive intern. (from haitantimes.com)

6.  The first Black Republic

Haiti The First Black Republic tells the story of the fall of Haiti, and the subsequent rise that led Haiti becoming the first black republic. The instrumental war heroes and the actions of the Haitian people to fight and gain independence from European and French rule are highlighted in this illustrative historical work. Haiti: The First Black republic is a powerful historical guide; and simply a must read.

7) My Day With Panye 

In the hills above Port-au-Prince, a young girl named Fallon wants more than anything to carry a large woven basket to the market, just like her Manman. As she watches her mother wrap her hair in a mouchwa, Fallon tries to twist her own braids into a scarf and balance the empty panye atop her head, but realizes it’s much harder than she thought. BOOM! Is she ready after all? Lyrical and inspiring, with vibrant illustrations highlighting the beauty of Haiti, My Day with the Panye is a story of family legacy, cultural tradition, and hope for the future. Readers who are curious about the art of carrying a panye will find more about this ancient and global practice in an author’s note at the end.  (from google books.com) 

8) Breath, Eyes, Memory

At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother, where she gains a legacy of shame that can only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her. (from nypl.org)

9. Hold on tight, dont let go

Laura Wagner has managed to get a huge amount of Haiti into the pages of this book: the sun, the rain, the bottomless spiral of catastrophe, rage, despair and indomitable hope." —Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls' Rising: A Novel of Haiti

"In Haiti they say 'Kreyòl pale, Kreyòl konprann.' Speak plainly and honestly, and be understood. Laura Wagner does just that in this brave, beautiful book, bringing us the complex life of Magdalie, and a glimpse of a people's soul." —Jonathan M. Katz, author of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster

 10. Masscare River

Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic flows a river filled with ghosts, Edwige Danticat writes in her superb preface to Massacre River: Over time the river has been the site of several massacres-- including the one which is the subject of this tour de force by Rene Philocte te. In 1937 the power-mad racist Generalissimo Trujillo ordered the slaughter of thousands and thousands of Haitians-- and, as Philocte te puts it, death set up shop everywhere. At the heart of Massacre River is the loving marriage of the Dominican Pedro and the Haitian Ade le in a little town on the Dominican border. On his way to work, Pedro worries that a massacre is in the making; an olive-drab truck packed with armed soldiers rumbles by. And then the church bells begin to ring, and there is the relentless voice on the radio everywhere, urging the slaughter of all the Haitians. Operation Cabezas Haitianas (Haitian Heads) is underway, the soldiers shout, Perejil Parsley ] Perish Punish Haitians try to pronounce perejil correctly, but fail, and weep. The town is in an uproar, Adele is ordered to say perejil but stammers. And Pedro runs home and searches for his beloved wife, searches and searches... The characters of this book not only inspired the love and outrage of an extraordinary writer like Philocte te, writes Edwige Danticat, but continue to challenge the meaning of community and humanity in all of us.  (from google books.com) 

[haitilegends]

Prix Deschamps 2021

Luis Bernard Henry, Prix Deschamps 2021

Le Prix Deschamps 2021 est décerné au roman « La petite fille bleue » de l’écrivain Luis Bernard Henry. Originaire de la ville des Cayes, cet étudiant en philosophie et en sciences politiques, âgé de 24 ans, est devenu le plus jeune récipiendaire de ce prix, considéré comme le Goncourt haïtien.

Publié le 2021-11-19 | lenouvelliste.com

«Comment nommer l’émotion que je ressens en ce moment ? C’est un mélange de beaucoup de choses : à la fois une grande euphorie et une satisfaction intense. Ce prix annonce un aboutissement et un commencement. L’aboutissement d’une parole intime portée par mes absents, ma grand-mère et deux de mes amis d’enfance, qui m’ont laissé récemment. Et c’est, je l’espère, le commencement d’une œuvre qui se veut un dialogue profond et sincère avec l’autre ». Ce sont les réactions à chaud de notre nouveau Prix Deschamps, joint au téléphone par le Nouvelliste.

Émotion. Gaieté. Surprise incroyable. L’heure est à la joie pour Luis Bernard Henry, qui nous parle de son rapport avec la littérature : « La littérature est un espace d’altérité par excellence. C’est le premier domaine qui m’a fait réfléchir sur ce que des hommes peuvent faire à d’autres, sur l’importance des espérances, des rêves et des blessures qu’ils portent. Mon rapport à la littérature commence avec l’enfance, la littérature comme cri du monde et des autres. »

Né aux Cayes le 3 août 1997, Luis Bernard Henry est un ancien du Collège Frère Odile Joseph et du Collège La Providence de sa ville natale. Passionné de littérature dès son enfance, il fréquente la bibliothèque de l’Institut pour la promotion et le développement de l’éducation et de la culture (IPDEC) et découvre Jacques Roumain, Jean Fernand Brière, Jacques Stephen Alexis, Jean Métellus, James Baldwin, Albert Camus... tout un monde littéraire!

Il a commencé à lire à 16 ans. Il était en classe de seconde/secondaire II, le jour où Mme Prisca Céliscar, sa professeure de littérature, lui a recommandé sa première lecture : ''Zoune chez sa ninnaine'' de Justin Lhérisson. Depuis lors, les livres sont devenus une vraie passion pour lui. Quand on lui demande qu’est-ce qu’écrire? il répond : « Luis Bernard écrit pour habiter le monde et toucher les individus dans leur part secrète et intime. La littérature est une parole. Une parole esthétique. Une parole pour aller à la rencontre de l’autre ».

Luis Bernard a été longtemps fasciné par les histoires que lui racontait sa grand-mère, la nuit. « Je viens d’une ville de province. On passait souvent nos soirées assis aux pieds des adultes à écouter des histoires de Maitre-minuit, des légendes d’hommes et des dieux, qui m’ont appris à me méfier du réel. C’est ma grand-mère qui racontait les histoires. Et les grand-mères ne mentent jamais ». Un roman fantastique, son livre alors ?

« La petite fille bleue ». Selon l’auteur, le texte part de deux questionnements : Quelle part de nous est à l’autre ? Et qu’est-ce que la violence peut faire des hommes ? Le prétexte ? Une jeune journaliste souhaite faire un livre ; elle est hantée par la mémoire de son enfance et des absents. L’enfance, l’absence, la violence sont les thèmes principaux qu’aborde le récit. « J’ai écrit ce roman pour reprendre un dialogue que j’ai interrompu avec moi-même, interrompu à cause de certains drames intimes. Ce texte s’inscrit dans la filiation des auteurs qui me portent, de cette grande idée communiste que la terre peut être à tous les hommes. Ce prix me permet donc de reprendre avec moi-même ce dialogue urgent sur mes convictions politiques et mes convictions d’homme. »

Prix Littéraire Henri Deschamps

Signalons que le Prix littéraire Henri Deschamps a été créé en 1975 par les membres du Conseil d’administration de la société « Maison Henri Deschamps Les Entreprises Deschamps-Frisch S.A.» en mémoire du fondateur de l’entreprise. Le Prix, qui porte le nom de Henri Deschamps (né à Poitiers, en France, le 5 février 1897, et décédé à Port-au-Prince, en Haïti, le 12 octobre 1958), fondateur de la Maison Henri Deschamps, est destiné à récompenser une œuvre de grand public.

Pour cette édition, le jury était composé des membres suivants : Évelyne Trouillot (Présidente), Marie Laurence Jocelyn Lassègue (Secrétaire générale), Evains Wêche, Rhoody Attilus, Emmelie Prophète, Ronald C. Paul et Fédia Stanislas.

Auteur: Marc Sony Ricot

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Afro-Futurist Reading List Vol 2.

Afro Futurism Reading List Vol 1:

Afro Futurism Reading List Vol 2:

Black Speculative Fiction Breakdown by Genre

African Fantasy (early myths and fables from the continent): Forest Of A Thousand Deamons: A Hunter's Saga by Daniel O. Fagunwa The Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle by Amos Tutuola The Brave African Huntress by Amos Tutuola Feather Woman of the Jungle by Amos Tutuola Ajaiyi and his Inherited Poverty by Amos Tutuola The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town by Amos Tutuola

Utopia (alternate histories written during the jim crow & antebellum eras): Blake Or The Huts Of Africa by Martin Delany Imperium In Imperio by Sutton E Griggs Light Ahead For The Negro Edward A Johnson One One Blood by Pauline Hopkins Black No More by George Shuyler Lord Of The Sea by MP Sheil

Space Opera (far future sci fi worlds of interplanetary travel): Nova by Samuel R Delany Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand by Samuel R. Delany Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor An Unkindness Of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson Rayla 2122 Series by Ytasha Womack Trouble On Triton by Samuel R. Delany Babel 17 by Samuel R Delany Empire Star by Samuel R Delany The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord The Best Of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord Ancient Ancient by Klini Iburu Salaam Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden Ascension: Tangled Axon by Jacqueline Koyanagi Teleportality by T Cisco Nadine's Bible Seris by T Lindsey-Billingsley Nigerians In Space Series by Deji Bryce Olukotun

Aliens (alien encounters): Lilith's Brood Trilogy by Octavia Butler Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor Rosewater Trilogy by Tade Thompson The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbell The Wave by Walter Mosley

Dystopia (oppressive futures and realities): Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjie Brenyah Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi War Girls Series by Tochi Onyebuchi Sunshine Patriots by Bill Campbell Gunmen's Peace by Milton J Davis Dragon Variation by T Cisco

Experimental (literary tricksters): The Ravicka Series by Renee Gladman The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri The Structure Of Dante's Hells by LeRoi Jones The House Of Hunger by Dumbudzo Marachera Black Sunlight By Dumbudzo Marachera Yellow Back Radio Broke Down by Ishmaeel Reed The Last Days Of Louisiana Red by Ishmaeel Reed The Sellout by Paul Beatty Koontown Killing Kaper by Bill Campbell The African Origin Of UFOs by Anthony Joseph Quantum Black Futurism(Theory & Practice Volume 1) by Rasheeda Philips by Rasheeda Philips Spacetime Collapse: From The Congo to Carolinas Spacetime Collapse II: Community Futurisms by Rasheeda Philips consent not to be a single being trilogy by Fred Mot

Post-Apocalyptic (worlds falling apart): The Purple Cloud by MP Shiel Dhalgren by Samuel R Delany The Parable Series by Octavia Butler Brown Girl In The Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

Dying Earth (far future post-apocalyptic worlds + magic):

The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin The Einstien Intersection by Samuel R. Delany The Jewels Of Aptor by Samuel R. Delany The Fall Of The Towers Trilogy by Samuel R. Delany Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorofor The Book Of Phoenix by Nnededi Okorofor The Prey Of Gods by Nicky Drayden

Alternate History (alternate timelines and what-ifs): Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed Everfair by Nisi Shawl The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates The Insh'Allah Series by Steven Barnes Ring Shout by P Djelia Clark A Dead Djinn In Cairo by P Djelia Clark The Black God's Drum by P Djelia Clark Washington Black by Esi Edugyan Pimp My Airship: A Naptown By Airship Story by Maurice Beaudice The Dream Of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer Pym by Matt Johnson, Dread Nation Series by Justina Ireland From Here to Timbuktu by Milton J Davis

High Fantasy (magical kindoms and high adventures): The Neveryorn Series by Samuel R. Delany Black Leapard Red Wolf by Marlon James The Deep by Rivers Solomon & Clipping Imaro Series by Charles R. Saunders The Children Of Blood & Bone by Tomi Adeyemi The Children Of Virtue & Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi The Sorcerer Of The Wildeeps by Kai Ashai Washington A Taste Of Honey by Kai Ashai Washington Beasts Made Of Night Series by Tochi Onyebuchi A Place Of Nights: War & Ressurection by Oloye Karade, Woman Of The Woods: A Sword & Soul Epic by Milton J Davis Temper by Nicky Drayden They Fly At Ciron by Samuel R. Delany Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman The House Of Discarded Dreams by Etakterina Sedia

Magic Realism (literary naturalism with surreal, dreamlike, and mythic imagery): The Echo Tree & Other Stories by Henry Dumas The Kingdom Of This World by Alejo Carpentier General Sun My Brother by Jacques Stephen Alexis The Famished Road Series by Ben Okri The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson Montaro Caine by Sydney Portier Mama Day by Gloria Naylor Redemption In Indigo by Karen Lord Mem by Bethany C Morrow

Urban Fantasy (modern citybound fantasy): The City We Became by NK Jemisin  Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead Blue Light By Walter Mosley Fire Baptized by Kenya Wright

Time Travel (stories unstuck in time): Kindred by Octavia Butler Version Control by Dexter Palmer Recurrence Plot by Rasheedah Phillips

Horror (nightmare, terrors, and hauntings): Beloved by Toni Morisson African Immortals by Tananarivue Due Fledgling by Octavia Butler The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez Lakewood by Meggan Giddings The Ballad Of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff The Changeling by Victor Lavealle Zone One by Colson Whitehead The Between by Tananarive Due The Good House by Tananarive Due Ghost Summers: Stories by Tananarive Due Unhollowed Graves by Nunzo Onho Catfish Lullaby by AC Wise

Young Adult (books for young adults): Akata Witch Series by Nnedi Okorofor Zarah The Windseeker & The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorofor Long Juju Man by Nnedi Okorofor Ikenga by Nnedi Okorofor Tristan Strong Series by Kwame Mbalia A Song Below Water by Bethany C Morrow Daughters Of Nri by Reni K. Amayo A River Of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy 47 by Walter Mosley

Comics (graphic storytelling) George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz (1919-1921) by George Herriman The Boondocks Complete Collection by Aaron Mcgruder Birth Of A Nation by Aaron Mcgrudger, Reginald Hudlin, & Kyle Baker Prince Of Cats by Ronald Wimberly Concrete Park by Erika Alexander & Tony Puryear Incognegro Series by Matt Johnson Your Black Friend & Other Stories by Ben Passmore Bttm Fdrs Ezra Clayton Daniels & Ben Passmore Sports Is Hell is Ben Passmore LaGuardia by Nnedi Okorofor & Tana Ford Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale Of New York by Samuel R Delany & Mia Wolff Empire by Samuel R Delany & Howard Chaykin Excellence by Brandon Thomas Bitteroot by David F Walker, Chuck Brown & Sanford Greene Black by Kwanza Osajyefo Niobe: She Is Life by Amandla Stenberg & Sebastian A Jones Black Panther by Christopher Priest Black Panther by Reginald Hudlin Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates Shuri by Nnedi Okorofor World Of Wakanda by Roxane Gay Truth: Red, White, & Black by Kyle Baker House Of Whispers by Nalo Hopkinson & Neil Gaiman Naomi by David F Walker, Brian Micheal Bendis, & Jamal Campbell Far Sector by NK Jemison & Jamal Campbell

Short Stories (collections by single authors): Driftglass by Samuel R Delany, Distant Stars by Samuel R Delany Bloodchild & Other Stories by Octavia Butler Unexpected Stories by Octavia Butler Falling In Love With Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson, Kabu Kabu by Nnedi Okorofor, How Long Til Black Future Month? by NK Jemisin Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Reneee Thomas

Anthologies (collections from multiple authors) Dark Matter edited by Sheree Renee Thomas So Long Been Dreaming edited by Nalo Hopkinson Conjure Stories edited by Nalo Hopkinso Whispers From The Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction edited by Nalo Hopkinson Afro SF: Science Fiction by African Writers edited by Wor. W. Hartmaan Stories For Chip: A Tribute To Samuel R Delany edited by Nisi Shawl Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movement edited by Adrienne Marie Brown & Walidah Imarisha Mothership: Tales of Afrofuturism and Beyond edited by Bill Campbell The City: Cyberfunk Antholoy edited by Milton J Davis Steamfunk edited by Milton J Davis Dieselfunk edited by Milton J Davis Griots: A Sword & Soul Anthology by Milton J Davis & Charles R Saunders Griots: Sisters Of The Spear by Milton J Davis & Charles R Saunders

Non-Fiction (histories, essays, and arguments) Afrofuturism And The World Of Black Sci-Fi & Fantasy Culture by Ytasha Womack Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise Of Astral Blackness edited by Reynaldo Anderson & Charles E Jones The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, The Future, and The Speculative by Sandra Jackson & Julie E Woody-Freeman Afro-Futures & Astral Black Travel by Juice Aleem The Sound Of Culture: Diaspora & Black Technopoetics by Louis Cude Soke Black Utopia: The History Of An Idea From Black Nationalism To Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin Afrouturism Rising: The Literary Pre-History Of A Movement by Isiah Lavendar III A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra & The Birth Of Afrofuturism by Paul Youngquist Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Poryrals In Speculative Film & TV by Diana Adesola Mafe Black Kirby: In Search Of The Motherbox Connection by John Jennings & Stacey Robinson Super Black: American Pop Culture & Black Super-Heroes by Adilifu Nama Black Space: Imagining Race In Science Fiction Film by Adilifu Nama Black Super-Heroes, Milestone Comics, And Their Fans by Jeffery A Brown Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changin Worlds by Adrienne Marie Brown

*cover image from Ytasha Womack’s “Afrofuturism: The World Of Black Sci-Fi & Fantasy Culture”

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