Félix Morisseau-Leroy sur la place et l'importance du créole en Haïti. (interview de 1957)

Felix Morisseau-Leroy speaks about Haitian Creole and its place and value as a language like any other and his adaptation of Antigone for a Haitian setting. Morisseau-Leroy was one of the more interesting 20th century writers from our homeland whose life and work should inspire us. 

Atipa Comic Book

Atipa, the first novel in a Creole language, has recently been adapted into a bilingual comic. I would rather read the original novel first, but this is an interesting development that is suggestive of the importance of Atipa in French Guiana's Creole literature and heritage. This is so despite the fact that the novel was ignored for several decades after its initial publication in 1885. From what I have read of the work, most of the novel consists of the eponymous character walking through the streets of Cayenne, engaging his friends and acquaintances in long conversations about a plethora of topics germane to life in the late 19th century in the colony. For anyone interested in the structure of Guianese Creole during this time or the social and cultural world in which Atipa lived would find something valuable in it.