Emeric Bergeaud (c. 1818–1858) was a
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...
an novelist. His best-known work, ''Stella'', was the first Haitian novel. Born in
Cayes
A cay ( ), also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island on the surface of a coral reef. Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans, including in the Caribbean and on the Great ...
, he served as Secretary to
Jerome Maximilien Borgella and later participated in a revolt against President
Soulouque. Exiled to
Saint Thomas, it was there that he wrote the novel ''Stella.'' Marlene Daut has recently revealed in ''Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865'', that three Haitian journalists and writers from the early twentieth-century, Ulrick Duvivier, Frédéric Marcelin, and Louis Morpeau, suspected or more likely erroneously believed that ''Stella'' was actually authored by Bergeaud's wife (413–14, ftn. 2). At the present time, there is no other known evidence that supports the claims of Duvivier, Marcelin, and Morpeau.
References
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* Daut, Marlene L. ''Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865'' (Liverpool University Press, 2015).
External links
''Stella''is openly available with full text and full page images in th
Digital Library of the Caribbean
1810s births
1858 deaths
19th-century Haitian novelists
Haitian male novelists
19th-century Haitian male writers
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