Edwidge Danticat dicusses how the Haitian earthquake killed many aspiring writers and how the surviving writers have changed their style towards one of testimony. Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and moved to the United States when she was twelve. She is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; and The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner. She is also the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States and The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Men and Women of All Colors and Cultures. Danticat earned a degree in French Literature from Barnard College, where she won the Woman of Achievement Award in 1995, and later an MFA from Brown University. She lives in Miami with her husband and daughter. The Provost's Lecture Series: Edwidge Danticat, 'Writing Tragedy, Writing Hope' was presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University
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FACULTY MEMBERS CONDUCTED A "READ-IN"...RECITING FROM HAITIAN LITERARY MASTERPIECES AT THE SCULPTURE AREA OUTSIDE THE STUDENT UNION. STAFF POINTS OUT HAITI HAS PRODUCED SCORES OF WRITERS -- DRAWING ON THE COUNTRY'S RICH CULTURE FOR INSPIRATION IN THEIR WORK. READ-INs WILL BE HELD TOMORROW AND FRIDAY STARTING AT NOON.
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LITERARY SPEAK Producer: C. Debra Thomas A local dance group does a special tribute to the victims of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
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UNESCO Forum on Haiti Mar, 24, 2010 Rebuilding the social, cultural and intellectual fabric of Haiti
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Journée du Livre Haitien 2012 (15e Edition) Conférence de Mark Schuller, Co-auteur de Tectonic Shifts: Haiti since the Earthquake Edited by Mark Schuller, Pablo Morales. Kumarian Press, 2012.
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Journée du Livre Haitien 2012 (15e Edition)
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NIGGAS IN PARIS FREESTYLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BY HAITIAN MAFIA
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Mr. Barrera's 10th Grade Literature class urges the world to donate to the Haitian Earthquake Relief fund by dialing 90999 and texting Haiti.
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An English project about something life-changing or something like that. Got that 50/50 with this thinggg :) Billionaire Parody Originally by Travie McCoy and Bruno Mars sang by Gucci. Lyrics: I wanna be a trillionaire so frickin bad Solve all of the problems the world has From earthquakes that strike the earth to hurricanes Chile, Haiti, and our New Orleans Oh every time I watch tv I see some calamity, yeaaah A different country every night oh I swear The world will be repaired for when I'm a trillionaire The millennium started ten years ago And just a year later there was a deathblow It ruined and changed the lives of many And brought us to war with the Iraqi In 2004, there were Madrid bombings School siege in Russia was far from calming So many terrorist attacks got everybody panicking And the time for darning was already ticking If I was a trillionaire, I could help rebuild Those poor countries whose lives were killed So think about it because Oh every time I watch tv I see some calamity, yeaaah A different country every night oh I swear The world will be repaired for when I'm a trillionaire We can't forget about Hurricane Katrina She hit the coast saying asta la vista Other hurricanes followed putting countries in ruins Not only that but the disasters don't loosen Cyclones, Floods, and even a drought So many people died without a doubt Then came the great typhoons in Asia Destroying homeland of Taiwan and Phillipines, uh. Earthquakes start to occur at once First in ...
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ZOE | www.zoelando.com ||| Defend ︻╦╤─ Haiti | www.facebook.com/zoemagltd ||| twitter | www.twitter.com/ZOEmagazine Jacques Roumain (June 4, 1907 -- August 18, 1944) was a revered Haitian writer, politician, and advocate of Communism in Haiti. Roumain, considered one of the most prominent faces in Haitian literature, was regarded by many as a master novelist. Although poorly known in the English-speaking world, Roumain has significant following in Europe, and is renowned in the Caribbean and Latin America. The great African-American poet, Langston Hughes, translated some of Roumain's greatest works, including Gouverneurs de la Rosée (Masters of the Dew). Although his life was short, Roumain managed to touch many aspects of Haitian life and culture.
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International Journalist, Award Winning Author, top 100 African American Literary Diva, Playwright, Dance Poet, Yolantha Harrison-Pace shares from her journeys to Haiti with Bate Middle School
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The prize-winning, young novelist from Haiti and Brooklyn spoke frankly in this interview given in Miami, Florida, in June 2003. Danticat is the first Haitian woman to compose a novel entirely in English, and she is also the first author to bring the Haitian/American experience to American literature. In our conversation she talked about the dictatorship in Haiti, the experience of being separated from her parents for eight years, racism, valuing the self, her sense of mystery, the creative process, writing, her audience, and her dreams, and she ends with a reading from her second novel, "Krik? Krak!." This book, foretells the power of Danticat's latest works, "The Dew Breaker," an intense story of family, dislocation and torturers during the notorious Duvalier regime, and her compelling memoir, "Brother, I'm Dying."
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Mr. Barrera's 10th Grade Literature class urges the world to donate to the Haitian Earthquake Relief fund by dialing 90999 and texting Haiti.
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The Creole Project: a free online resource that teaches Haitian Creole through video tutorials More videos and resources available at thecreoleproject.tumblr.com I'll be posting more as I go along. I started this project because Haitian Creole is not easy to learn without taking an intensive course at one of the programs at FIU, Duke, or UMass. If you can take an intensive course (they run about two months long in the summer), I recommend Professor Jacques Pierre at Duke--he taught me everything I know. Please message me if you would like to volunteer to help make the video tutorials. I'd love to have native speakers record content for the videos. I don't mind putting them together in video format and writing the lessons! Me: I'm a grad student working toward a PhD. I study activist writers who resist dictatorship through literature in Haiti, and Latin America. I have taught French language courses at the undergraduate level, and I'm applying that experience to Creole. My goal is that you will be able to learn basic Creole more easily. My hope is that you will fall in love with the language, the literature, and the culture as I have. Please message me if you have any suggestions for how my tutorials could be more helpful.
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Luna Charles was born in Petion-ville, Haiti, but has lived and sunny South Florida for the last 21 years. By the age of 14, she had won her first prize, a day with the commissioner of District 9, Betty Ferguson, due to her wonderfully imaginative short stories. At the age of 19, Luna was awarded the 'Excellence in Literary Arts" award for her Academy. Men Are Not The Problem, is Luna's first novel, which was release October 2010. She is currently working on a journal due to release this summer and a second novel due out next year. Luna is an avid reader and an accomplished cook. For more information about Men Are Not The Problem, please visit Menarenottheproblem.com
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DEBORAH JENSON of the Haiti Lab Deborah Jenson is Professor of French and Romance Studies at Duke University, Interim Director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies, and co-Director of the Haiti Lab. She has developed and co-taught a series of Creole courses at Duke, including "Haitian Creole for the Recovery." Her current Haiti research focuses on the "French era" in the Dominican Republic (1804-1808), revolutionary and independence texts by Haitian leaders, Haiti and Latin American independence movements, US response to the Haitian independence, the cultural history of trauma in Haiti, and reconstruction ideologies and logistics. She has taught on the Haitian Revolution, francophone literature and the African diaspora in 19th century New Orleans, Haitian legacies in New Orleans, theories of representation, and Flaubert and the neuroscience of imitation. About TEDx TEDx was created in the spirit of TED's mission, "ideas worth spreading." The program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. At TEDx events, a screening of TEDTalks videos -- or a combination of live presenters and TEDTalks videos -- sparks deep conversation and connections. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis.
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What do Haitians want? On March 12th, 2010, film students from Haiti's only film school Cine Institute in Jacmel, in partnership with Oxfam and FilmAid, asked Haitians about their priorities for rebuilding their country. Meet three of the people they asked: Jean Beleque an unemployed construction worker, Caliksta Mara who is a resident of Pinchinat Tent City, and Michelet Divers, a Professor of literature. According to the survey, the most pressing needs are: jobs, schools and homes. www.oxfam.org
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Haiti Cultural Exchange presented Frankétienne at Housing Works...in Soho. Here he thanks everyone for their help in making it possible. Apologies for misspelling Frankétienne's name in the captions in the video tminsky@ix.netocm.com
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An excerpt from the 2007 documentary "Diane Wolkstein: A Storyteller's Story," made to celebrate the 40th anniversary of her storytelling career. This segment, featuring interviews with Diane and musician Shirley Keller, focuses on their time spent in Haiti compiling the stories and songs that eventually became the classic book "The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales." This is a revision of my promotional video for Diane, to improve the titles.
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The Creole Project: a free online resource that teaches Haitian Creole through video tutorials More videos and resources available at thecreoleproject.tumblr.com I'll be posting more as I go along. I started this project because Haitian Creole is not easy to learn without taking an intensive course at one of the programs at FIU, Duke, or UMass. If you can take an intensive course (they run about two months long in the summer), I recommend Professor Jacques Pierre at Duke--he taught me everything I know. Please message me if you would like to volunteer to help make the video tutorials. I'd love to have native speakers record content for the videos. I don't mind putting them together in video format and writing the lessons! Me: I'm a grad student working toward a PhD. I study activist writers who resist dictatorship through literature in Haiti, and Latin America. I have taught French language courses at the undergraduate level, and I'm applying that experience to Creole. My goal is that you will be able to learn basic Creole more easily. My hope is that you will fall in love with the language, the literature, and the culture as I have. Please message me if you have any suggestions for how my tutorials could be more helpful.
Tags :Haiti, educational, project, education, creole, learn, haitian, kreyol, new, lesson, language