Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
The short story is very much alive in Haitian literature, most especially among women writers. As a favorite genre for describing insecurity on the sociocultural, political and identity level, it reflects the difficult circumstances in which short story writers labor and the obstacles that they encounter in finding a publisher, an audience, in a word, a place in the disporic field of Haitian literature. In particular, the short story genre allows for a formal, stylistic and structural hybridity that suits the writers' desire to experiment with narration even as they seek an appropriate voice.
Recommended Citation
Gyssels, Kathleen
(2000)
"La nouvelle en Haïti, correspondance du Nouveau Monde: les recueils de Yanick Lahens et de Pascale Blanchard-Glass,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 54:
No.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol54/iss1/8
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