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  • TheatreL'Haïtien expatriéPierre Fligneau · 1804not translated into EnglishA play performed in a country just liberated, which textbooks rank among the very first texts of its literature.Literature
  • PoetryReliques d'un poète haïtienCoriolan Ardouin · 1837not translated into EnglishPosthumous collection by a poet who had published nothing in volume form during his lifetime, and whose verse speaks above all of the loss of his loved ones.Literature
  • PoetryPoésies nationalesMassillon Coicou · 1892not translated into EnglishThe first collection of a twenty-five-year-old teacher, printed in Paris, in which the founders of independence receive a cult and the present is put on trial.Literature
  • PoetryRires et pleursOswald Durand · 1896not translated into EnglishTwo volumes printed in France, which gather the poems their author had entrusted to the newspapers over some twenty years.Literature
  • TaleBouqui and MaliceBouki ak MalisAnonymous · 1900Two companions of the oral tradition, the naive one and the cunning one, whom Haitian storytellers bring to life at the evening gathering.Literature
  • NovelThémistocle Épaminondas LabasterreFrédéric Marcelin · 1901not translated into EnglishThe first novel by a former finance minister, which follows a young man enamoured of great examples as he grapples with the public life of his country.Literature
  • NovelLa Famille des Pitite-CailleJustin Lhérisson · 1905not translated into EnglishThe ambitions of a cunning businessman serve to mock Haitian politics and manners, told in the country's oral manner.Literature
  • NovelMimola or the Story of a CasketMimola ou l'histoire d'une cassetteAntoine Innocent · 1906The only novel of a lycée teacher, which leads a Haitian family and its sick child towards the rites of Vodou.Literature
  • NovelPretenders: The Hellénus Cato AffairLes SimulacresFernand Hibbert · 1923A vain politician and a Cuban charlatan in the Port-au-Prince of the occupation: Fernand Hibbert's last satire.Literature
  • EssaySo Spoke the UncleAinsi parla l'OncleJean Price-Mars · 1928A defence of the peasant and African culture of Haiti, against an elite that wished to be French.Literature
  • PoetryDialogue de mes lampesClément Magloire-Saint-Aude · 1941not translated into EnglishA slim pamphlet of secret verse, the first collection by a poet whom Breton admired.Literature
  • NovelMasters of the DewGouverneurs de la roséeJacques Roumain · 1944A man back from abroad searches for the water that would save his village and the peace that would allow it to be shared.Literature
  • NovelGeneral Sun, My BrotherCompère Général SoleilJacques Stephen Alexis · 1955The first novel by a Haitian doctor, which follows a poor man of the capital from prison to social struggle, then on to the plantations of the neighbouring country.Literature
  • NovelLove, Anger, MadnessAmour, Colère et FolieMarie Vieux-Chauvet · 1968Three narratives of the terror under Duvalier, which a novelist saw vanish from bookshops as soon as they appeared.Literature
  • CinemaHaiti: The Way to FreedomAyiti, men chimen libèteArnold Antonin · 1974The history of Haiti told from exile as a long struggle for freedom, against the Duvalier dictatorship.Cinema
  • NovelDézafiFrankétienne · 1975A Haitian village ruled by a priest who makes zombies work, told in Haitian Creole.Literature
  • CinemaMap palé nètRaphaël Stines · 1976A monologue by Cocteau rendered into Creole, filmed in Haiti in the days of the dictatorship.Cinema
  • CinemaOliviaBob Lemoine · 1977A peasant woman who has come to try her luck in the capital, in one of the few films made in Haiti under the Duvaliers.Cinema
  • CinemaAnitaRassoul Labuchin · 1980A little peasant girl placed as a domestic servant in the city, in a film in Creole made under the dictatorship.Cinema
  • CinemaBitter CaneCanne amèreJacques Arcelin · 1983A documentary shot in secret, which dismantles the mechanisms of Haiti's economic dependence.Cinema
  • CinemaVoodoo Dance: A Tribute to the People of HaitiLa Ronde des vodùElsie Haas · 1987A documentary that questions priests, historians and politicians on the place of Vodou in Haiti.Cinema
  • NovelHadriana in All My DreamsHadriana dans tous mes rêvesRené Depestre · 1988A bride dead before the altar in the middle of carnival, and the suspicion that she was turned into a zombie.Literature
  • TaleLa Reine des poissonsMimi Barthélémy · 1990not translated into EnglishA tale from the Haitian tradition, which its storyteller adapted, told and sang, between Creole and French.Literature
  • CinemaThe Man by the ShoreL'Homme sur les quaisRaoul Peck · 1993The terror of the Duvalier years seen by an eight-year-old girl, hidden with her sisters at their grandmother's house.Cinema
  • NovelStreet of Lost FootstepsRue des pas perdusLyonel Trouillot · 1996A night of insurrection in the Haitian capital told by three voices from below: Lyonel Trouillot's third novel.Literature