Bøger af Eddy Toussaint Tontongi

"An anthology of Haitian poetry, representing a great diversity of sensibilities and poetic styles. The book contains a Haitian Creole component, on par with the English and French components, that enriches it for all readers and students seriously interested in Haitian literature. This added value also serves to educate both the public and the literary establishment"--

This book is a blending of genres and themes which may seem at times overwhelming but is a style that I choose deliberately. I call it the tyaka style. Indeed, just like tyaka - a Haitian dish made from a mixture of corn, beans, pumpkin, coconut milk, meat, spices, etc., to give a final and delicious meal -, I mix in this book different and apparently incompatible ingredients to compose a final product with varied flavor and aesthetic, highlighting each of its elements while projecting a qualitative complexity of the whole.I write this book mostly in Haitian and I add an "Anèks / Annexe" at the end aligning selected texts both translated and untranslated. For me, it is always important to demonstrate the performative force of the popular language. Although the two languages ​​- French and Haitian commonly known as Creole - are recognized by the 1987 constitution as the two official languages ​​of the Republic of Haiti, the use of the latter continues to be dominated by the former in most important activities and social spheres, such as publishing, school, writing, university, finance, state administration, etc. This book conveys the point and shows Haitian is indeed a complete language, a language totalkapital (total-capital), as they say there.

A collection of politico-literary essays on literature, language and politics in Haitian Creole. / yon koleksyon esè politiko-literè sou literati, lang ak politik an kreyòl ayisyen.