Gérard Étienne, Natania

Lélia Young (York University)

Ed. by Emir Delic, Université Sainte-Anne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.4: Canadian Writing and Culture: Francophone .
Vol. editors: Emir Delic (Université Sainte-Anne), Eftihia Mihelakis (Brandon University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2008

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Canada (Publication/ performance)

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Poem collection

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Gérard Étienne was born in Haiti, in Cap Haitien in 1936, and he passed

away in 2008 in Montreal, Canada. From the beginning of his life, he witnessed paternal violence against his mother because she was not a voodooist like her husband. Gérard Étienne’s first revolt was against his irrational and violent father. This was followed by his heroic stand against the successive dictatorships that marked the fragile destiny of Haiti. He was then arrested and tortured under the rule of Paul Magloire (1950-1956) and again later during Papa Doc Duvalier’s rule (1957-1971). That was Gérard Étienne’s bitter start of adulthood. He realized very quickly that matters were not going to get better once he left his paternal household. After his ordeals, while still in his twenties, his drive…

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Citation: Young, Lélia. "Natania". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 August 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38855, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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