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Deborah Jenson

Deborah Jenson

Professor Emeritus of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
deborah.jenson@duke.edu
205 Language Center, Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
205 Language Center, Box 90257, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Books

Poetry of Haitian independence

Book · May 26, 2015 At the turn of the nineteenth century, Haiti became the first and only modern country born from a slave revolt. During the first decades of Haitian independence, a wealth of original poetry was created by the inhabitants of the former French Caribbean isla ... Cite

Beyond the Slave Narrative: Sex, Politics, and Manuscripts in the Haitian Revolution

Book · 2011 An introduction to the Afro-diasporic literature of the Haitian Revolution and its New World impact (with particular attention to its American journalistic dissemination) A presentation of Jean-Jacques Dessalines as a radical black Atlantic voice in a trad ... Link to item Cite

"Coming to Writing" and Other Essays by Hélène Cixous

Book · 1992 This collection presents six essays by one of France's most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, Cixous here explores how the problematics of the sexes--viewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle b ... Link to item Cite