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Collection Overview
- Title:
- Léon-François Hoffmann Collection on Haitian Literature
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0p096696t
- Dates:
- 1936-2009
- Size:
- 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
- Language:
- French
Abstract
Consists of correspondence in French between Léon-François Hoffmann and Haitian poet René Depestre, including handwritten letters, faxes, and several other documents. Other additions include photocopies of correspondence between Haitian writer and politician Jacques Roumain and his wife Nicole Hibbert.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists of correspondence in French between Léon-François Hoffmann and Haitian poet René Depestre, including handwritten letters, faxes, and several other documents. Other additions include photocopies of correspondence between Haitian writer and politician Jacques Roumain and his wife Nicole Hibbert.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Hoffmann, Léon-François
Léon-François Hoffmann is a scholar of Haitian literature and culture and professor Emeritus in the Departments of French and Italian at Princeton University.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts at Yale University in 1953; a Master of Arts at Princeton University in 1955; and a Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1959. He was an instructor at Princeton University from 1968-2003.
His most famous work, Le Nègre romantique : personnage littéraire et obsession collective (Paris, Payot, 1973), was recognized by the French Academy. In 2003, Léon-François Hoffmann coordinated the edition of the complete works of Jacques Roumain.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift, 2006 (AM 2006-119). Gift, 2013 (AM 2014-18). Gift, 2016 (AM 2016-36). Gift, 2017 (AM 2017-107).
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '2015 in 2012.
Additions processed by Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez in July 2016. Finding aid written by Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez in July 2016.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Léon-François Hoffmann Collection on Haitian Literature; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0p096696t
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- Haitian literature.
Haitian poetry.
Poets, Haitian -- 20th century -- Correspondence. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 20th century
- Names:
- Depestre, René
Roumain, Jacques
