Annie Desroy

Annie Desroy was the pseudonym of Anne-Marie Bourand, née Lerebours (1893-1948), a Haitian novelist, playwright and teacher.[1] She is best known for her 1934 novel Le joug.[2]

Life

Anne-Marie Lerebours was born on May 4, 1893, in Port-au-Prince. Educated in Port-au-Prince, she became a teacher and Director of the Centre d'Etudes Universititaires, instructing girls in the first and second parts of the baccalaureate examination. She married Étienne Bourand.[1]

She became an active member of the Ligue Féminine d'Action Sociale,[1] and was active in the Haitian literary and cultural scene of the 1920s and 1930s.[3] The dates of production are known for two of her plays, each a comedy in three acts: Et l'amour vient in 1921, and La cendra du passé in 1931.[4]

Her novel Le Joug was published in an edition of only fifty copies. Myriam J. A. Chancy has praised its "complex treatment of the effects of the Occupation upon the Haitian psyche".[3] Le Joug was apparently the first of four novels written by Desroy.[5]

She died on October 2, 1948, in Port-au-Prince.[1]

Works
  • Le joug: roman [The Yoke: a novel]. Port-au-Prince: Imp. Modèle, 1934.

References
  1. Donald E. Herdeck, ed. (1979). Caribbean Writers: A Bio-bibliographical-critical Encyclopedia. Three Continents Press. p. 360.
  2. Ménard, Nadève (2013). "Foreign Impulses in Annie Desroy's Le Joug". In Calargé, Carla; Dalleo, Raphael; Duno-Gottberg, Luis; Headley, Clevis (eds.). Haiti and the Americas. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. pp. 161–176.
  3. Chancy, Myriam J. A. "Ayiyi çé tè glissé: The U.S. Occupation of Haiti and the Emergence of Haitian Women's Literary Voices". Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women. p. 50.
  4. Brenda F. Berrian; Aart Broek, eds. (1986). Bibliography of Women Writers from the Caribbean (1831–1986). Three Continents Press. p. 172.
  5. Suzanne Rinne; Joëlle Vitiello, eds. (1997). Elles écrivent des Antilles... (Haïti, Guadeloupe, Martinique). L'Harmattan. p. 15. ISBN 9782296330337.

Further reading
  • Conrady, N. J. (1995). Le roman haïtien d'expression française et l'occupation américaine de 1915-1934 : tros décennies d'histoire vues par quatre romanciers haïtiens engagés (Stéphen Alexis, Annie Desroy, Léon Laleau, Mme Virgile Valcin (PhD thesis). Middlebury College French School.
  • Desgraves-Valcin, Cléanthe (1954). "Madame Etienne Bourand". In Ligue féminine d'action sociale (ed.). Femmes haïtiennes. Port-au-Prince: H. Deschamps. pp. 237–239.
  • Gindine (Tardieu-Feldman), Yvette (1974). "Images of the American in Haitian literature during the occupation, 1915-1934". Caribbean Studies. 14 (3): 37–52.
  • Gouraige, Ghislain (1960). "Mme Etienne Bourand". Histoire de la littérature haïtienne. pp. 362–363.
  • Tardieu Feldman, Yvette (August 1974). "Une romancière haïtienne méconnue,: Annie Desroy (1893-1948)". Conjonction. 124: 35–51.
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