Études Sur L'Haïtien

Folklore and Tradition

by Jude Jacques, P.D


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 9/15/2005

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 260
ISBN : 9781420874396
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : E-Book
Page Count : 260
ISBN : 9781420885927

About the Book

For a long time many people, especially students and colleges and universities were waiting for a book that can teach them everything about Haitians, Folklore, and oral tradition. Finally, it is here.

I plan to publish this book in English, Spanish and many other languages, in order to let people better understand "Haitians" the first free black nation in the new world and the second after the United States of America.

"Folklore is the highest expression of the Heart of a people. Folklore can give a solution to some of the most obscure problems of history, and bring clarity to many speculations".

The systematic exploitation of our folk topics, the in-depth mixing of our cultural richness to the facet will contribute to preserve the originality of a Haitian.

The swing-low, thus relates to each and everyone. This book awaits the collaboration of almost eight million Haitians, of the interior and the Diasporas: the Oral tradition of a country like Haiti, that has a traditional culture, cannot be contained in the brain of about sixty individuals. It is time to rally.

The title of this book denotes it at the bottom of the antimony or a certain character of complementary between the expressions of Folklore and Oral tradition. The word Folklore appeared for the first time in August 22, 1846 in Athenoeum, under the signature of the English archeologist William John Thorns.

Admittedly, the field of folklore was restricted at the beginning, widened with time until it embraced all human life. As much to say that it meets that of the oral tradition. Saint- Yves says "that it constitutes one of the most significant branches of Cultural Sociology".

In April 1927, Saint-Yves gave a conference to the annual General Assembly of the Belgian Company of Folklore in Brussels: "Apology for the Folklore or the Science of the Popular Tradition" or the two expressions are assimilated. Folklore is considered by him like the science of the popular tradition; but, according to us "Haitians", popular tradition does not imply simply orality, it also implies the material aspect of what one can call traditional Ethnography and, not only tales, legends, riddles, proverbs, and songs.

 


About the Author

Jude Jacques was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on November 26, 1969. In Haiti, he attended College Freres Gabriel, Juvenat and college Canado. His father who was a colonel in the Haitian Army along with his mother who was a businesswoman decided to send him to the United States of America. His father was afraid that Jean-Claude Duvalier "Baby Doc" would soon leave the country and the members of the Duvalier regime would be persecuted, therefore an exodus to North America was the only way to save our family.

In Brooklyn, the author attended Erasmus Hall High School. Then, he went to York College and Sorbonne University as an exchange student, where he obtained a degree in French. Later, he received a master''s degree from Hofstra University. Finally, he received a P.D from St. Johns'' University.

The author has been teaching for nine years. He student taught at Hillcrest High School. He started teaching at Jamaica High School, then, Evander Childs High School. Currently, he is teaching French for the prestigious district of Hempstead at the high school level. Moreover, he has taught (ESL) English as a Second Language at Nassau Community College for several years. The author is currently working on his second book about his father and the Haitian Army.