{"id":2904,"date":"2010-01-15T15:56:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T20:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2010-01-15T15:56:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T20:56:29","slug":"georges-anglade-1944-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/georges-anglade-1944-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Georges Anglade (1944-2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"(photo \u00a9 Thomas C. Spear Montr\u00e9al, 14 avril 2009. \u2014 & Thomas too is in Haiti & I haven’t heard if he is alright)<\/p>\n

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News just reached me of the death in the Haitian earthquake of George Anglade and his wife Mireille.\u00a0 The couple had returned to Haiti earlier this year for what was supposed to be a longer research stay. Anglade liked to define himself as a “man in three pieces:” geographer<\/em> (his academic field of study & teaching), political man<\/em> (a militant for redress in Haiti, he spent time in jail under the Duvalier dictatorship and was exiled several times, returned briefly to join the administration of Aristide as cabinet member) and writer<\/em>. He is both a theoretician and practitioner of Lodyans<\/strong>, the Haitian narrative genre that goes all the way back to Justin Lh\u00e9risson and that Jacques-Stephen Alexis calls the specifically Haitian literary genre by excellence. Here is how Hugues St. Fort speaks of Anglade’s book Haitian Laughter<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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With Rire ha\u00eftien \/ Haitian Laughter<\/em>, Georges Anglade has taken a giant step in literary and linguistic innovation in the realm of Haitian literature. To my knowledge, this is the first time that a Haitian printer (in this case F\u00e9qui\u00e8re Vilsaint), publishing in the United States, has produced a Haitian text in a French-English bilingual edition on American soil. Such an undertaking is quite different from English translations of Haitian texts in French, such as the novels of Jacques Stephen Alexis (Comp\u00e8re G\u00e9n\u00e9ral Soleil \/ General Sun, My Brother, University of Virginia Press, translated by professor Carrol Coates, 1999; or L\u2019espace d\u2019un cillement \/ In the Flicker of an Eyelid, University of Virginia Press, translated by Coates and the Haitian-American novelist Edwidge Danticat, 2002, for example). Here, Anglade is setting his sights not only at the immense United States market made up of an impressive population of second-generation Haitians — born in the United States or having arrived in America at a very young age, and who are ill-informed about the culture of their immigrant parents \u2013 but also at the American public at large, whose perceptions of Haiti and its culture are particularly disastrous.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You can read the full review here<\/a>.\u00a0 And, for the francophones (& lodyansphiles) here is a bibliography of Georges Anglade:<\/p>\n

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Main works:<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

In Lodyans<\/em>:<\/h3>\n