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Dibur Literary Journal, 2020
The Comparatist, May 1, 2012
With up to one-fourth of all Haitian nationals actually living abroad, it is unsurprising that th... more With up to one-fourth of all Haitian nationals actually living abroad, it is unsurprising that there should be a flourishing "Haitian" literature outside the country. The fact of late-twentieth-century Haitian migration is inseparable from the reign of François and then Jean-Claude Duvalier from 1957 to 1986. In addition to extreme poverty, the Duvalier regimes were marked by brutal political oppression and extreme forms of censorship. To speak out against the government was to risk beating, imprisonment, or murder, and thus writers in particular found themselves the targets of the Tontons Macoutes-the nickname given the Volontaires de la Securité Nationale, the Duvaliers' own police force.
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Dibur Literary Journal, 2020
The Comparatist, May 1, 2012
With up to one-fourth of all Haitian nationals actually living abroad, it is unsurprising that th... more With up to one-fourth of all Haitian nationals actually living abroad, it is unsurprising that there should be a flourishing "Haitian" literature outside the country. The fact of late-twentieth-century Haitian migration is inseparable from the reign of François and then Jean-Claude Duvalier from 1957 to 1986. In addition to extreme poverty, the Duvalier regimes were marked by brutal political oppression and extreme forms of censorship. To speak out against the government was to risk beating, imprisonment, or murder, and thus writers in particular found themselves the targets of the Tontons Macoutes-the nickname given the Volontaires de la Securité Nationale, the Duvaliers' own police force.