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“Cric? Crac!”: Fables of La Fontaine in Haitian Creole: a Literary Ethno-socio-linguistic Curiosity

“Cric? Crac!”: Fables of La Fontaine in Haitian Creole: a Literary Ethno-socio-linguistic Curiosity F AllLES OF LA FONTAINE IN HAITIAN CREOLE: A LITERARY ETHNOSOCIO-LINGUISTIC CURIOSITY Cric? Crac!, with the subtitle Fables de La Fontaine rae on tees par un montagnard ha"itien et transcrites en vers creoles par Georges Sylvain was first published in 1901; a second edition was published by his widow in 1929. 1 The author was a well-known and active literary figure in Haiti at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries; born in 1866, he died in 1925. He was a contributor to various literary and political reviews such as La Ronde, which although short-lived (1898-1902) played an important role in trying to make Haitians aware of their specific culture: he was later a leading opponent of the U.S. occupation of Haiti from 1915 onwards. His French poems 2 were, in fact, rather derivative; Verlaine and Baudelaire are easily detectable; but his Cric? Crac! is far more original and experimental, since creole, though the language of communication for almost all Haitians, understood and used even by the handful of Haitians who might sp~ak French amongst themselves, is almost entirely an oral language spoken largely by illiterates and generally despised by the Frenchspeaking and thus http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nottingham French Studies Edinburgh University Press

“Cric? Crac!”: Fables of La Fontaine in Haitian Creole: a Literary Ethno-socio-linguistic Curiosity

Parmée, Douglas
Nottingham French Studies , Volume 15 (2): 12 – Jan 1, 1976
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Edinburgh University Press
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© 1976 Nottingham French Studies
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0029-4586
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2047-7236
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10.3366/nfs.1976-2.002
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F AllLES OF LA FONTAINE IN HAITIAN CREOLE: A LITERARY ETHNOSOCIO-LINGUISTIC CURIOSITY Cric? Crac!, with the subtitle Fables de La Fontaine rae on tees par un montagnard ha"itien et transcrites en vers creoles par Georges Sylvain was first published in 1901; a second edition was published by his widow in 1929. 1 The author was a well-known and active literary figure in Haiti at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries; born in 1866, he died in 1925. He was a contributor to various literary and political reviews such as La Ronde, which although short-lived (1898-1902) played an important role in trying to make Haitians aware of their specific culture: he was later a leading opponent of the U.S. occupation of Haiti from 1915 onwards. His French poems 2 were, in fact, rather derivative; Verlaine and Baudelaire are easily detectable; but his Cric? Crac! is far more original and experimental, since creole, though the language of communication for almost all Haitians, understood and used even by the handful of Haitians who might sp~ak French amongst themselves, is almost entirely an oral language spoken largely by illiterates and generally despised by the Frenchspeaking and thus

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Published: Jan 1, 1976

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