1927 · Haitianyear only

Two journals appear and send Haitian writing to the countryside

La Trouee and La Revue Indigene told the country's authors to look at the cultivator, not at Paris.

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1927 · Haitianyear only

Roumain's circle turns on the occupation and on their own class

The founders of La Revue Indigene came from the families whose taste they set out to wreck.

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1927 to 1940 · Africanspan

Rhodesian miners strike while Britain is fighting for its life

Dance societies did the organising that unions could not, and the copper belt picked its year well.

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1927 · Haitianyear only

A literary review lays the track that Duvalier later rides

An argument about African roots, made by poets in 1927, became a state doctrine thirty years on.

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1927 to 1929 · Haitianspan

The writers and the marchers came out of the same houses

From a review in 1927 to the Damien walkout in 1929, one movement carried two vocabularies.

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1927 to 1934 · Haitianspan

Indigenism runs out of politics and its authors turn to Marx

Roumain and Max Hudicourt were arrested in 1932 and jailed in 1933 by a Haitian president.

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1927 to 1950 · Diasporaspan

Nine Turks in ten cannot read in 1928

Illiteracy fell to eighty per cent by 1936 and then stuck near sixty for a generation.

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1927 · Haitianyear only

La Revue Indigène reclaims a word the occupiers used as an insult2 sources

Normil Sylvain took the label indigène as a title precisely because it was thrown as abuse.

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July 1927 · Haitianmonth known

The first issue of La Revue Indigene prints its programme

Normil Sylvain named the peasant as the source that Haitian writing had spent a century avoiding.

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July 1927 · Haitianmonth known

La Revue indigene opens its first issue with the peasant family

Eleven pages on Kenscoff marriage customs at the head of a literary movement's programme.

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August 1927 · Haitianmonth known

A Haitian review runs a piece on a Sufi teacher from India

Carl Brouard went looking for models that were neither Catholic nor French, and found one east of both.

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September 1927 · Haitianmonth known

Brouard reads a Persian poet looking for a road for Haitian youth

Two issues running, the review looked east for a spiritual language that was not Catholic France.

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