
- Book Topics
- Haiti
- Creole
- Haitian Revolution
- Port-au-Prince
- United Nations
- UNSTAMIH
- Occupying forces
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Francois Duvalier
- Papa Doc
- Baby Doc
- Tonton Macoute
- 1915 US occupation of Haiti
- 1994 US occupation of Haiti
- Operation Uphold Democr
Kannjawou
Kannjawou (pronounced Konn-yeh-woo) is the Haitian Creole expression for a wild celebration, a fandango. Set in Haiti’s capital Port-Au-Prince in the early 2000s, this novel by acclaimed author Lyonel Trouillot embodies the nation’s indomitable spirit through a journal kept by a deeply observant young male college student, depicting a country entering a new era after years of oppression, corruption, and most recently, the shambles left in the wake of foreign occupation.
- Book Topics
- Haiti
- Creole
- Haitian Revolution
- Port-au-Prince
- United Nations
- UNSTAMIH
- Occupying forces
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Francois Duvalier
- Papa Doc
- Baby Doc
- Tonton Macoute
- 1915 US occupation of Haiti
- 1994 US occupation of Haiti
- Operation Uphold Democr
Reviews and Comments
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Lyonel Trouillot is the great national novelist of Haiti, in the same way that Tolstoy was that for Russia. . . . [and] to Haiti what Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa are as writers for their respective nat