Il y a 230 ans, la Convention nationale abolissait l’esclavage dans l’ensemble des possessions françaises haitianhistoryblog.com/230-years-ag...
Nathan Dize, Ph.D (he/him/il/él/li)
@nathanhdize.bsky.social
Translator of Haitian and Antillean literature, teacher, researcher, and writer. Writing books about mourning in Haitian literature #SUNYPress & African American translators #LSUPress. Co-edits Global Black Writers in Translation @ Vanderbilt UP
Jean-Claude Carrié, Les membres de l'Haïti Littéraire dans la résidence de la romancière Marie Vieux-Chauvet à Port-au-Prince (1963). De gauche à droite : Villard Denis, Anthony Phelps, René Philoctète, Marie Vieux Chauvet, Roland Morisseau, Serge Legagneur. #marievieuxchauvet
Rejoignez-nous pour une conversation avec Merle Collins au sujet de la traduction de son roman The Color of Forgetting par @gregorypierre.bsky.social @rotbokrik.bsky.social et Jean-Baptiste Neudy. Inscrivez-vous ici: kwazmanvwa.com/blog/ À bientôt !
Special Issue: Journal of Haitian Studies - ‘Citizens of the World/Citoyens du monde/Sitwayen Mond Lan/Ciudadanos del Mundo’: Haitian Mobilities and Futurities across the Americas' www.haitianstudies.org/2025/02/jour... #Haiti @haitianstudies.bsky.social @haitisupportgroup.bsky.social
Journal of Haitian Studies - Special Issue: Call for Abstracts (Mar. 30, 2025)
Our issue, “‘Citizens of the World’: Haitian Mobilities and Futurities across the Americas,” engages with the demand by the Critical Refugee Studies Collective (2022) to place (re)situate refugee epis...
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Don't miss this upcoming event from our friends and collaborators at Puerto Rico Syllabus and Archivo Histórico de Vieques! They will showcase their new open educational resource, which received support from our OER in Caribbean Studies Program. Register here: tinyurl.com/viequessylla...
Also today, renewal: "Reading the Caribbean literary corpus sheds new light on the relations between the countries of the North and those of the South, [...] revealing the links between the history of the region & that of its former colonial overlords" - Évelyne Trouillot @wwborders.bsky.social
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus@wwborders.bsky.social · 2y agoEducators, WWB Campus’s new free Caribbean lit unit is live! It features 21 works from all over the region with tons of resources and lesson ideas—and we couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. Learn more: https://buff.ly/417PF9Y
If you've never read any books by #Frankétienne, you might start with the English translation of Dezafi; I wrote a review of it a while back with some ways of relating to the story. The artwork on the cover is also by the author readingintranslation.com/2019/05/24/t... @uvapress.bsky.social #Haiti
The Art of “Tonbe-Leve”: Frankétienne’s “Dézafi,” Translated from Haitian Creole by Asselin Charles
By Nathan Dize In a 1975 interview, journalist Jean Léopold Dominique praised Frankétienne’s publication of Dézafi, meaning “cockfight,” because it provided a polysemic analogy fo…
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I never met Frankétienne, but was touched by his writing. one of the most beautiful moments that I can think of is his conversation with his dear friend Jean Dominique, who dared Frank to write a novel in Haitian Creole... & he did! #Frankétienne repository.duke.edu/dc/radiohait...
Inter-Actualités Magazine: Jean L. Dominique ak Frankétienne sou woman «Dezafi» / Radio Haiti Archive / Duke Digital Repository
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(*A joke to distract from the 🤬💔) I am sad for the state of the nation* when NO student in class recognized this immortal verse ⬇️, as I distinguished voodoo from Vodou 🇭🇹 🎵Don't know how you do the voodoo that you do/ so well it's a spell, hell/ makes me wanna shoop shoop shoop... Not! One! 😆😭
I'm feeling blue today folks, sharing this blog post that I wrote in 2020, which I reread this morning and found some wisdom from my past self. It's a short post about financial grief, rejection, and dreams differed. nathanhdize.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/i...
I Gave You All I Had, or The Pain of the Dollar
When I heard last week that I was turned down for my dream job, I recalled a book I read nearly a decade ago, I Gave You All I Had by Zoé Valdés, thinking that the title poignantly expressed exactl…
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We’re hiring! WWB seeks a digital manager to advance our technological systems, manage our websites, and build readership through multimedia projects. Learn more about this full-time, remote position and apply at the link: https://buff.ly/41eN67j
In this essay, Rosalind Harvey discusses translation through the lens of attachment theory, proposing that a translation process can be secure, insecure, or attached. Read "Is That a Familiar Feeling?"on WWB: https://buff.ly/42OdRR3
Right now, it’s important for teachers to affirm the experiences of refugees and asylum-seekers. From WWB Campus, this piece of graphic fiction “A Short Guide to Being the Perfect Political Refugee,” alongside its teaching resources, is a great tool for just that.
A Short Guide to Being the Perfect Political Refugee
In the satirical "guide" below, cartoonist Mana Neyestani draws on his own experience as an Iranian refugee in Paris.
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Words Without Borders Campus is launching its newest unit for students and educators: poems and stories from the Caribbean. I’m so proud of this project. Join us next month to meet some of powerhouse authors and translators included in the collection! 📚
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus@wwborders.bsky.social · 2y agoBig WWB Campus news: our Caribbean lit unit is coming, and on 2/26 at 6 pm ET, you can join WWB Campus to celebrate its launch with a public reading! Ft. major voices in Caribbean writing and translation like Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro & Hoyt Rogers. Learn more and join the celebration: buff.ly/4gjqBC8
Very excited to have been included in this amazing volume, and excited to read the work of other contributors! #francophonestudies #oceania
Atelier sur l’histoire chaotique du drapeau "RVN" adopté en 2023 pour représenter la Martinique lors des manifestations sportives et culturelles ; une exploration de la complexité de la question statutaire et des idéologies aux Antilles #fabriquedecoloniale #martinique youtu.be/PFDcNBqTjps?...
La Martinique a son drapeau
YouTube video by La Fabrique Décoloniale
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@ubuffalohistory.bsky.social: Mark your calendars! Upcoming talk by the brilliant Dr. Deborah Gray White!
If you're still shopping for a noon Thursday thing, zoom on right in for "AI, Data and Ownership Roundtable" with Kim, Nadejda, and Sayeed. Funnny thing is this started as a conversation on a zoom, and we were like "we should now do it in public."
The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is proud to present our stellar 2025 Prize Jury panel: Diana Abu-Jaber — Jury Chair, Norma Dunning, Kim Fu, Tessa McWatt, and Jeanne Thornton. Please join us in celebrating them! 🎉 For more: bit.ly/3CqYD9Z #ShieldsPrize
A beautiful essay written by our Smith colleague Paula Giddings, Elizabeth A. Woodson Professor Emerita of Africana Studies, on Ida B. Wells literally taking up space that white women tried to deny her in the 1913 Suffrage march. Still up, for now, on the NPS website: www.nps.gov/articles/000...
I am thrilled to share the cover of my forthcoming book, I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom (June 2025 @yalepress.bsky.social) The stunning painting is by Haitian-American artist Ulrick Jean-Pierre (ulrickjeanpierre.com) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
If you're new to me, or to my work as a translator, I invite you into my heart with this piece. Forever grateful for the support & vision of @wwborders.bsky.social for publishing this <3 #Translation #Memoir
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus@wwborders.bsky.social · 2y agoIn an essay on WWB, Nathan H. Dize reimagines the genre of translator’s notes to recall how how life and translation have rhymed during his own career, often in wrenching ways. Read it at the link: https://buff.ly/3PtVWHt
I hope you'll join me & all these lovely people as we celebrate & launch a unit on teaching Caribbean writers for @wwborders.bsky.social !
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus@wwborders.bsky.social · 2y ago2/26 at 6 pm ET: that’s when you can join WWB Campus for the launch of their Caribbean lit unit! Readers, teachers, and learners of all ages can join authors and translators from Lawrence Schimel to Jean D’Amérique at this free event. Snag your ticket here: wwborders.live/2025CampusLaunch
In this intimate and insightful essay, Rosalind Harvey explores the complex emotional and professional terrain of literary translation, weaving together attachment theory, career precarity, and the unseen labor of bringing words across linguistic borders. Read the piece here: https://buff.ly/4b1vIpW
Is That a Familiar Feeling? - Words Without Borders
In this intimate and insightful essay, Rosalind Harvey explores the complex emotional and professional terrain of literary translation, weaving together attachment theory, career precarity, and the…
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