Deborah Jenson Books
Yale French Studies, Number 107: The Haiti Issue: 1804 and Nineteenth-Century French Studies
"In "The Haiti Issue," the controversial events of the 2004 Haitian bicentennial are a catalyst for reassessment of the legacies of the 1804 independence movement in nineteenth-century France and H...
Read MoreTrauma and its representations
"Mimesis has been addressed frequently in terms of literary or visual representation, in which the work of art mirrors, or fails to mirror, life. Most often, mimesis has been critiqued as a simple...
Read MorePoetry of Haitian independence
By Norman R. Shapiro, Deborah Jenson, Doris Y. Kadish
"This collection of deeply felt and powerfully moving Haitian poetry dating back to the first decades of the Caribbean island's independence from French colonial rule sheds a much needed light on a...
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