Theatre
L'Haïtien expatrié
Not translated into English
Pierre Fligneau · 1804
Synopsis
A play in French, performed in the very year that independent Haiti was born. Haitian textbooks present it, together with the text that proclaimed that independence, as one of the first texts of the national literature, and histories of that literature open with it the period of the pioneers, which runs until 1836, without relating its plot.
Context
The play was written in French, like the Act of Independence that Louis Boisrond Tonnerre drafted the same year; Frénand Léger recalls that classic textbooks present the two texts together. This starting point is disputed: according to the same author, some historians begin Haitian letters earlier, with a Creole text from the mid-eighteenth century attributed to a colonist, Duvivier de la Mahautière. The Larousse places the play alongside the topical theatre of Antoine Dupré, in the early years of the Haitian state.
Who it is for
A play in French, in the public domain, which readers come across in the histories of the country's letters, where it opens the chapter on the beginnings.
Prizes and reception
The Larousse names it first in its history of the letters of independent Haiti.
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