
The Haitian Revolution
From the Unthinkable to the Comics
Join us this Haitian Flag Day (Tuesday, May 18, in Brazil) at 9:30 am EDT for a conversation with Bethânia Pereira (Unicamp), Keilla Vila Flor (UnB), and Handerson Joseph (UFRGS) to celebrate the Portuguese translation of the comic book, The Revolution That Gave Birth to Haiti. The Portuguese edition was translated by Bethânia Pereira, Felipe Cittolin Abal, and Rodrigo C. Bulamah. Laurent Dubois, author of the original English version, and Rocky Cotard, the illustrator, will join the conversation. Rodrigo C. Bulamah (Unifesp) will moderate. In Portuguese and English.
Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Canal do Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (IFCH/Unicamp), Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH)/Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), and the Forum for Scholars and Publics at Duke University. Technical support provided by Coordenadoria de Eventos, Extensão e Difusão do IFCH/Unicamp.
GET THE COMIC BOOK
The Revolution That Gave Birth to Haiti (2020)
English version
Illustrated by Rocky Cotard and written by Laurent Dubois, 10 pages
A Revolução que deu origem ao Haiti (2021)
Portuguese version
Illustrated by Rocky Cotard, written by Laurent Dubois, and translated by Bethânia Pereira, Felipe Cittolin Abal, and Rodrigo C. Bulamah, 10 pages
Revolisyon Ki Akouche Ayiti A (2020)
Haitian Creole version
Illustrated by Rocky Cotard, written by Laurent Dubois, and translated by Jacques Pierre, 10 pages
About the Project
In 2017, TheNib.com approached historian Laurent Dubois about writing a comic book on the Haitian Revolution and proposed several artists as possible partners on the project. When schedules conflicted, it was Edwidge Danticat who, in a conversation with Dubois, recommended the young Haitian artist Rocky Cotard. Over the following year, Dubois supplied text, ideas, and archival images from which to work while Cotard drew on his own knowledge and experiences of the Caribbean and his artistic skill to render the story of the Revolution compelling for all ages ...
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