French 314 French Caribbean Literatures taught by Professor Suzanne Toczyski of the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, on Mondays & Wednesdays from 2pm to 3:50pm, in Nichols 173. Office: Stevenson 3016G Telephone: 707.664.4177 Fax: 707.664.2363 E-mail: suzanne.toczyski@sonoma.edu Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30pm-2:30pm, or by appointment. Course Homepage Course Description Course Calendar Assignments Resources Suzanne's Homepage RESOURCES Maps | Labat | Code Noir Césaire | Roumain | Zobel | Schwartz-Bart | Chamoiseau | Condé | Desquiron | Danticat | Pineau Speeches by Caribbean Nobel Prize Winners Related links | Other Useful Tools Maps of the Caribbean region Central America and the Caribbean http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/central_america_ref01.jpg http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/centralamerica_ref01.pdf http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/centralamerica_print_ref01.pdf http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/loc-car.htm Haiti http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/haiti.html http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mapshells/caribbean/haiti/haiti.htm http://www.haiti-usa.org/modern/evolution.php Guadeloupe http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/cia02/guadeloupe_sm02.gif http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mapshells/caribbean/guadeloupe/guadeloupe.htm Martinique http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/cia02/martinique_sm02.gif http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mapshells/caribbean/martinique/martinique.htm [top of page] Jean-Baptiste Labat Links in English http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08718a.htm http://www.esclavage-martinique.com/uk/def/labat.htm http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/labat1.htm http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/labat2.htm Links in French http://www.esclavage-martinique.com/fr/def/labat.htm [top of page] Code noir http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/codenoir.htm (English) http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/amsudant/guyanefr1685.htm (French) [top of page] Aimé Césaire Links in English http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featkelley_116.shtml http://www.cosmoetica.com/S5-AD1.htm http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Cesaire.html Links in French http://www.cesaire.org/ http://www.radiofrance.fr/parvis/cesaire.htm http://www.franceweb.fr/poesie/cesair1.htm http://franceweb.fr/poesie/cesaire2.htm [top of page] Jacques Roumain Links in English http://www.echodhaiti.com/people/roumainj.html http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/misctopic/harlem/hughes.htm http://core.ecu.edu/engl/deenas/Caribbean/JacquesRoumain.htm Links in French http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ile.en.ile/paroles/roumain.html http://jacbayle.club.fr/livres/Nouveau/Roumain.html [top of page] Joseph Zobel Links in English http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1810354,00.html http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3768/is_200201/ai_n9032966 Links in French http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ile.en.ile/paroles/zobel.html http://mjang.free.fr/glarche/page%20exposition%20Joseph%20Zobel.html http://perso.club-internet.fr/jacbayle/livres/Nouveau/Zobel_1.html http://perso.club-internet.fr/jacbayle/livres/Nouveau/Zobel_2.html [top of page] Simone Schwartz-Bart Links in English http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Schwarz.html Links in French http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ile.en.ile/paroles/schwarz-bart.html http://www.guadeloupe-fr.com/articleDestinationGuadeloupe/-23955/ [top of page] Patrick Chamoiseau Links in English http://core.ecu.edu/engl/deenas/Caribbean/PatrickChamoiseau.htm http://www.caricom.org/jsp/projects/personalities/patrick_chamoiseau.jsp?menu=projects Links in French http://www.remue.net/cont/chamoiseau.html http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ile.en.ile/paroles/chamoiseau.html http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/patrick%2Bchamoiseau (for several interviews with Chamoiseau, in French) [top of page] Maryse Condé Links in English http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/CondeMaryseEng.html http://www.unesco.org/courier/2000_11/uk/dires.htm http://www.founders.howard.edu/conde.htm http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/conde.htm Links in French http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ile.en.ile/paroles/conde.html http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/CondeMaryse.html [top of page] Lilas Desquiron Links in English http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/bookreviews/desquiron.htm http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_3_24/ai_62350918  Links in French http://www.haiti-progres.com/2002/sm020724/actu07-24.html [top of page] Edwidge Danticat Links in English http://reach.ucf.edu/~aml3930/danticat/ http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/literature/danticat.htm http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/literature/danticat2.htm http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Danticat.html Links in French http://www.lire.fr/critique.asp/idC=46833&idTC=3&idR=217&idG=4 http://hometown.aol.com/CreoleCH/HSF-CED.htm [top of page] Gisèle Pineau Links in English http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/pineau_gisele.html http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/pineau.html http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Critique/review_fiction/macadam_dreams_by_gisele_pineau.html Links in French http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ile.en.ile/paroles/pineau.html http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/litterature/moderne/pineau/ http://guadeloupe.rfo.fr/article18.html http://www.potomitan.info/atelier/pawol/pineau.html Speeches by Caribbean Nobel Prize Winners (in English) Speech given by 1992 Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott, from Santa Lucia: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1992/walcott-lecture.html Speech given by Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul, of Trinidad & Tobago: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2001/naipaul-lecture.html [top of page]   Related Links General site on the literature of Guadeloupe, with more links to specific authors http://www.colby.edu/french/guadeloupe/litterature/ Women authors of the Caribbean http://www.agencetropiques.ch/archives/creolite.html Site on Haitian vodou http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/voodoo/voodoo.htm Site on Wyclef Jean (takes a long time to load!) : http://www.wyclef.com Pidgins and Creoles (Harold Schiffman): http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/messeas/handouts/pjcreol/node1.html [top of page] Useful Tools and Resources SSU Writing Center - First Floor, Jean & Charles Schulz Information Center http://www.sonoma.edu/programs/writingcenter/ Grammar Hotline Call 664-4401 Books and films on reserve at the Jean & Charles Schulz Information Center Click here. [top of page] Maps | Labat | Code Noir Césaire | Roumain | Zobel | Schwartz-Bart | Chamoiseau | Condé | Desquiron | Danticat Speeches by Caribbean Nobel Prize Winners Related links | Other Useful Tools Course Homepage Course Description Course Calendar Assignments Resources Suzanne's Homepage [top of page] Page last updated January 15, 2008