Gerard Etienne

Gerard Etienne (born on May 28th, 1936 with Cape-Haitian with the Haiti) is a poet, writer, linguist and journalist who lives with Montreal, with the Quebec.

Biography

Gerard Vergniaud Etienne leaves at 15 years the paternal home. He protests thus against violence that his/her father subjects to his mother because this one does not share its beliefs voodoo. Gerard Etienne will remain terribly marked by this period of his life. He leaves for Port-au-Prince. Very quickly, it takes part in an insurrection against the despotic government of Paul E. Magloire. Stopped in company of Luc B. Innocent and of Windsor K. Laferrière, he is imprisoned and tortured first once. Disciple of the Haitian Marxist, the large novelist and doctor Jacques-Stephen Alexis, it takes part in a plot against the government of François Duvalier (" Doc'" dad;). He is stopped then tortured once again (he is then 23 years old). This turbulent life did not prevent it making traditional studies in Haiti, teaching in prestigious colleges and from starting a career of journalist.

Indeed, it writes at 13 years its first poems which it interprets with the radio. At the 16 years age, it completes a first book of Poésie. Then it publishes back-to-back In the middle of the tears (1960), Plus broad than a dream (1960), the reason and my love (1961), Essai on the négritude (1962) and nationalism in the Haitian literature (1963). It founds the cultural group Samba which was to become Haiti-arts person. Parallel to its life of writer, he teaches in colleges and with the college. He is at the same time critical arts person and to defer to the daily newspapers the Short story writer (1961-1962) and Panorama (1962-1964). Gerard Etienne also in parallel followed a trajectory artistic and military, particularly at the Company of the Messengers of art (1963) and with the Body of Aviation where, junior by the air, it is affected at the department of Météorologie (1955 - 1957). In August 1964, the writer is exiled with the Canada. Unloaded with Montreal, he teaches with the College Da Silva (1964-1965) and works like deferring to the daily newspaper Subway Express train and the newspaper Latin Quarter. During its studies in letters with the University of Montreal (1964 - 1970), he works in factory then as male nurse with the Hotel God of Montreal. He teaches with the College of Matane (1968-1970) and collaborates in the newspaper the Canadian Voice . He publishes in 1965 its first book in Canada, Lettres in Montreal .

He holds a baccalaureat are arts and an arts degree of the University of Montreal (1968), as well as a doctorate in linguistics of the University of Strasbourg (1974). In 1958, it undertakes simultaneously a career of journalist, professor and writer. With the publication of its first collection of poetry, it is found with the head of several cultural and literary movements in its country. Following a long detention in the prisons of Duvalier, it is exiled in Quebec in 1964. Since, it does not cease publishing poetries and accounts. Its work appears in several French and Haitian anthologies. These novels were translated into English, Portuguese and German.

He was editor association of the Lettres review and Writings of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Montreal of 1967 to 68 and of the review of the Université of Moncton of 1974 to 1980. He also collaborated in the daily newspaper the Morning and in the weekly magazines " Voilier" and the acadian Monitor . Since 1971, he is professor at the University of Moncton to the New Brunswick. He is also the founder of the Theater of Matane.

In 1979, it founds the module information/communication and sign from now on journalism. He collaborates in the newspaper " Devoir" of 1972 with 1987 and it is leader-writer with the daily newspaper the Morning (1986-1987).

In spite of two comas and an operation with the brain, it continues to write with the weekly magazine " Voilier" (1987 - 1989). In 1993, a few moments before he is the guest of the emission of Denise Bombardier " Passion" reason; , an physical aggression of a political nature makes him include/understand the extent of the combat that it remains to him to carry out against what it then calls the " feudal " Haitians (see " The Injustice, misinformation, contempt of the loi"). Since this date, Gerard Etienne collaborates in the newspaper Haiti-Observer and continues his fight for a durable democratic change in his country of origin.

Several of its titles were translated into foreign languages. The writer also followed a scientific career. He founded a new discipline in social sciences, the Anthroposémiologie. These two tests on the subject were greeted by the critic in Quebec and in the French-speaking world. Several other erudite studies in linguistics and semiology came to be added since to the work of Gerard Etienne (see lower list).

Gerard Etienne is member elect of several prices and distinctions.

Gerard Etienne was named personality of the year in Acadie (finalist category) in 1992. He received the Price of the best leader-writer (leading of the Sailing ship) in 1988 and the Price of the best Community radio broadcast in 1994. He also obtained in 1996 the certificate of honor Maurice Cagnon of the International counsel of French-speaking studies (CIEF) and the gold medal the French Rebirth in Montreal in 1997. He also holds the Cator trophy for the whole of his work. Directing member of the French Editions of Canada (1970), he will be founding member, reader and member of the board of directors of the Editions of Acadie. He is member of the Union of the écrivaines and the Québécois writers (UNEQ), and will work in particular in 2005 - 2006 for the committee " Language and souveraineté".

Principal works

Novels

the Negro crucifié . Montreal: Editions French-speaking person and Optical News, 1974; Geneva: Metropolis, 1990; Montreal/Paris: Balzac, 1994.
an Ambassador macoute in Montreal . Montreal: New Optics, 1979.
a dumb Woman . Montreal/Paris: Editions Optical News/Flint, 1983.
the Queen Sun Raised . Montreal: Editions Guerin-Literature, Montreal, 1987; Geneva: Metropolis, 1989.
the Shoddy goods . Montreal: the Hexagon, 1991.
Master-Clo or the lovesong in C minor . Montreal/Paris: Balzac: 2000.
You are not alone . Montreal/Paris: Balzac: 2001.
In the middle of the anorexia . Montreal: CIDIHCA, 2002.
At the edge of the cliff . Montreal: CIDIHCA, 2004.

News

Bacoulou . Geneva: Editions Métropolis, Geneva, 1998.

Poetry

In the middle of the tears . Port-au-Prince: Togiram Close, 1960.
broader than a rêv E . Port-au-Prince: Dorsainvil editions, 1960.
Reason and my love . Port-au-Prince: Presses Port-with-princiennes, 1961.
Gladys . Port-au-Prince: Editions Panorama, 1963.
Letter in Montreal . Montreal: Editions Estérel, 1966.
Dialog with my shade (literary song). Montreal: French-speaking editions of Canada, 1972.
Cry not to burst shame (literary song). Montreal: New Optics, 1982.
Eyes of Natania, poetry by Gerard Etienne . MUSE in island 3 (April 1992): 1-2.
the Charter of the twilights poetic , Works (1960 - 1980). Moncton: Editions D' Acadie, 1993.
Embargo . Special issue, " Presence of Haïti". Sapriphage. 22 (be-autumn 1994): 47-49.

Tests

Test on the négritude , Port-au-Prince: Editions Panorama, 1962.
Nationalism in the Haitian literature . Editions Pétionville College, 1964.
life and the work of Franck Fouché . French-speaking presence 16 (spring 1978): 191-99.
the black Woman in the Haitian literary speech . French-speaking presence 16 (spring 1978).
the voodoo let us center the balloon according to the rules of the game . Haiti-progress (13 February 19th 1985): 11-18.
the racial and racist Question in the Québécois novel (test of anthroposemiology and semiotics applied). Montreal: Balzac editions, 1995.
the black Woman in the Haitian literary speech , elements of anthroposemiology (with François Soeler). Montreal/Paris: Editions Balzac/Le Griot, 1998.
the Injustice, the misinformation, contempt of the law . Montreal: Humanitas, 1998.
Herve Lebreton and the poetic one of the woman . Miami: ÉducaVision, 2006.

Interviews

Jean Jonassaint. capacity of the words, evils of the capacity . Paris-Montreal: Editions of Arcantère/the Presses of the University of Montreal, 1986:59 - 76.
Charles Rowell. The Literature and Culture, Gerard Etienne . Transl. Amos McRae, Jr. Callaloo 15.2 (Spring 1992): 498-500.

Literary prices and distinctions

1988 : Price of the best leader-writer (Leading of the Sailing ship).
1991 : Medal of the Association of the writers of the Guadeloupe.
1994 : Price of the best Community radio program, for Let us learn how to know us (CKUM-FM).
1996 : Certificate of honor Maurice Cagnon of the International counsel of French-speaking Studies (CIEF).
1997 : Gold medal of French Rebirth (Montreal).
1998 : Price Cator de Vermeille, for the whole of its work.

Monographs and articles on the work of Gerard Etienne

Work collective

Dumontet, Danielle, ED. The Esthetics of the shock: Gerard Etienne or the Haitian writing in Quebec. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

Studies

Adamson, Ginette. " A dumb woman of Gerard Etienne: a plea for the woman noire." LitteReality 10.1 (spring 1998): 97-105.

Andrews, Mark. " The writing with the barks: assiègement and resistance in the work of Gerard Étienne." To write in country besieged - Haiti - Writing Under Sits. Marie-Agnes Sourieau and Kathleen Mr. Balutansky, éds. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2004,405-422.

Beauquis, Corinne. " To die is really beautiful? Ecritorture of Gerard Étienne." French Literature Series 32 (2005): 45-57.

Boisvert, Jayne R. " Images off Red Ge in Étienne' S the dumb Woman and in Desquiron' S Ways of Loco-Miroir". Newspaper off Haitian Studies 11.1 (Spring 2005): 46-56.

Coates, Carrol F. " Three Fictional Views off Duvalierist Haïti." Vèvè A. Clark, ED. Haïtian Studies Association Proceedings. Second Annual Conference, June 15-16, 1990 Tufts University: 180-192.

Of the Rose trees, Joel. " Opus nigrum or praise of the pain. " Québécois letters 72 (winter-spring 1992). Altered and published under the same title like chapter 4 of the Caribbean Theories of Joel of the Rose trees. Montreal: Triptych, 1996:32 - 37.

Dodard, Antoine. " The Negro crucifié in procès". Haitian presence 4 (November-December 1975): 31-35.

Fardin, Dieudonné. " Uninterrupted vision and pleasure in the work of the poet G. Étienne". Small Saturday evening 21 (July 7th, 1973): 6-17.

Glover Cunnigham, William. " From Felix Morrisseau-Leroy to Josaphat-Robert Broad: The Greatest Haitian Poets and Writers off the True Modernism Period." Utah Foreign Language Review. Special exit (1994-1995).

Hewitt, Leah D. " The creolity “Haïtian Style”. " To think the creolity, under the direction of Maryse Condé and Madeleine Cottenet-Hage. Paris: Karthala editions, 1995:237 - 249, p. 243.

Jonassaint, Jean. " Haitian Writers in Exiles: In Survey off North America." Caribbean Quarterly 27.4 (December 1981): 13-20.

Jonassaint, Jean. " Novelists (Haitian) of the exile north-américain." Word for MOT. 11 (1983): 19-23.

Laraque, Franck. " Gerard Etienne or the negro crucifié." The Review of the University of Moncton 10.3 (December 1977): 139-144.

LeRumeur, Dominique. " Diapora and rebirth: Gerard Etienne and Acadie". Canadian studies. Interdisciplinary review of the Canadian Studies in France (House of the Social sciences of Aquitaine, Talence) 37 (1994): 407-414.

LeRumeur, Dominique. " The woman in the romantic universe of Gerard Étienne". Francographies (1993): 5-15.

LeRumeur, Dominique. " Exile and native soil: Shoddy goods of Gerard Étienne". French-speaking literatures. (Spain) (1996): 93-99.

Paratte, Henri-Dominique. " An Ambassador macoute in Montréal". French-speaking presence 20 (spring 1980): 188-192.

Prophet, Jean. " The glance from abroad and the novel haïtien". Collective Words 24 (August 1983 July): 20-23.

Prophet, Jean L. " The writing, style, the man: Gerard Etienne or the esthetics of the choc." Francographies special issue 2 (1999): 83-88.

Sherry, Simon. " The Geopolitics off Sex, gold Signs off Culture in the Quebec Novel". Essays one Canadian Writings 4 (Spring 1990): 44-49.

Sourieau, Marie-Agnes. " Cruxi-fiction of Gerard Etienne: poetic of the abjection". Francographies 10 (2001): 63-74.

Winnowed, André. " The Syndrome professoral". Voice and Images 10.1 (autumn 1984): 163-67.

Vitiello, Joelle. " Poetic Haitian-Québécois in works of D. Laferrière, E. Olivier, G. Étienne". Poetic and imaginary; Literary Francopolyphonie of Americas. Under the direction of Pierre Laurette and Hans-George Ruprecht. Paris: Harmattan, 1995:349 - 59.

Walker, Keith L. " Words Proferred in Bread: Gerard Etienne, Shame, and the Counterconfession." Countermodernism and French-speaking Literary Culture; the Range off Slipknot. Durham: Duke University Near, 1999:213 - 265.

Walker, Keith L. " Immigritude gold the Pitfalls off Haitian Exilic Experiment: The boxes off Gerard Etienne and Emile Ollivier". Textualizing the Immigrating Experiment in Contemporary Quebec. Susan Ireland, ED. Westport, CT: Greenwood Near: 2004.

Selected reports

on the crucifié Negro

Dalembert, Louis-Philippe. " The negro crucifié." Our Bookstore 104 (January-March 1991): 130-31.
Ferdinand, Joseph. " The new political statement of the Haitian account (I). " Collective Words 22 (March-April 1983): 15-19.

on an Ambassador macoute in Montreal

Hoffmann, Leon-François. " The Haitian novel of the ten last années". Our Bookstore 104 (January-March 1991): 26-36 (27).
Klaus, Peter G. " A parabola of colonialism to back. An ambassador macoute in Montreal, of Gerard Étienne." Quebec Studies 20 (Spring-Summer 1995): 27-34.
Laroche, Maximilien. " What is what Haitian literature? " French-speaking presence 26 (1985): 77-91.
Paratte, Henri-Dominique. " Gerard Etienne, an ambassador macoute in Montréal." French-speaking presence 20 (spring 1980): 188-92.
Rey-Charlier, Ghislaine. " Notes of reading, an ambassador macoute in Montreal of Gerard Étienne". Collective Words 6 (June 1980): 33-34.

on Queen Sun Raised

Dalembert, Louis-Philippe. " Gerard Etienne: The Queen Sun levée." Our Bookstore 104 (January-March 1991): 131-132.
Ethier-Blais, Jean. " A made Haitian history of noise and fureur". The Duty (March 5th, 1988): 8.

on the Shoddy goods

Egloff, Karin. " Etienne, Gerard, Pacotille." The French Review 66.4 (March 1993): 685.
Voisard, Anne-Marie. " Shoddy goods - It is worth the sorrow to try to tame the bête." The Sun October 12th, 1991: C9.

Translations

auf Deutsch

Der Aufstand der Sonnenkönigin (the Queen Sun Raised). Transl. Giò Waeckerlin Induni. Hannover: Schönbach, 1990.

in English

"In Scream Not to Die off Shame." Transl. Henri Dominique Paratte. Contemporary acadian poetry: Acadian Poetry Now. Moncton/Charlottetown: Editions Snowdrop/Ragweed Near, P.E.I., 1985.
" From The Queen Sun Rises". Transl. Carrol F. Coates. Callaloo 15.2 (spring 1992): 498-505. (Preceded by a discussion with Gerard Etienne, transl. B. McRae Amos, Jr.).
Shoddy goods (chapter 11). Transl. Keith L. Walker. Fiery Spirits, Canadian Writers off African Descent. ED. Ayanna Black. Toronto: To grip Hakes, 1994:100 - 124 and 360-361.
Shoddy goods (chapter 11, 2nd part). Transl. Keith L. Walker. Eyeing to the North Star. ED. George Eliott Clark. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997:19 - 25.
Shoddy goods (chapter 9). Transl. Keith L. Walker. The Black Review (summer 1998).
" Ah my coils flutters". Unfinished Dreams Contemporary Poetry off Acadie. Fred Cogowell and OJ-Anne Elder, translator and editors. Fredericton: Goose Lane, 1990:85 - 90.
Crucified in Haiti. Transl. Claudia Harris, Introduction by Keith Walker. Montreal: Marsh, 2006.

in italiano

the Regina Ground Levante, has cleaned di Lorenza Zanardi. Prefazione di Alba Pessini. Milano: Aquilegia Edizioni, 2003.

EM português

Una Mulher Fixed, da. Transl. Zila Bernd. Bahia: Federal C Rio Grande C Sul, Editora da Universidade, 1987. 165 p.

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