A short video on Justin Lhérisson, author of the Haitian national anthem, novelist, poet, journalist, teacher, and historian. This Haitian Renaissance Man left behind a vast legacy on the development of Haitian literature through the lodyans and the troubling social, political, and linguistic questions unresolved in Haitian society. Unfortunately, his early death deprived the world of his future novels, but his two published romans are inventive works which helped to consolidate a literary aesthetic. Of all the realist writers of his era, he was the most creative at fusing both French and Haitian Creole. An audiobook of one of his novels can be heard online. Sadly, we shall never know his sequel to Zoune chez sa ninnaine or La Famille des Gros-Bois...
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