This bilingual English and French edition of Aimé Césaire’s three act drama .....And the Dogs Were Silent—written in 1943 and lost until 2008—dramatizes the Haitian Revolution and the rise of Toussaint Louverture as its heroic leader.

Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) was a Martinican poet, critic, essayist, playwright, and statesman; a founder of the Négritude movement; and one of the most influential Francophone Caribbean intellectuals of the twentieth century. He is the author of Journal of a Homecoming/Cahier d’un retour au pays natal, also published by Duke University Press.

Alex Gil is Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University.

Brent Hayes Edwards is Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Foreword / Brent Hayes Edwards  vii
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction: The Making and Remaking of . . . . . . Et les chiens se taisaient / Alex Gil
. . . . . . And the Dogs Were Silent
. . . . . . Et les chiens se taisaient
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