sara florian
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About Caribbean Counterpoint:
“Sara’s book at its best is an insightful work of an engaged critic”
Dr. Kei Miller, Jamaica/UK
On Caribbean Counterpoint:
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“An ‘engaging’ study of St. Martin’s people, culture, history, landscape through literature”,
House of Nehesi Publishers, St. Martin
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“an engaging, illuminating and important study of Sekou’s use of
the metaphor of salt in his poetry”,
Dr. St Hope Earl Mc Kenzie, Jamaica
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“Sara’s book at its best is an
insightful work of an engaged critic”,
Dr. Kei Miller, Jamaica/UK
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“Dr. Florian's study delves deep into
not only the poetry but also into
the fiction and essays of this politically committed, coolly confident, witty
and lively writer and activist.",
Anton G. Leitner, editor,
Das Gedicht, Germany
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“a tremendously important book,
CLR James is looking down on you
with pride.”,
Prof. Paul Buhle, USA
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“Undoubtedly, Dr. Florian has produced more than a hagiographic monument on a Caribbean icon. Not unlike Sekou, she presents an epistemology that is non-dualistic and absorbent. Hers is a thesis that continues to build on insights as she journeys through regions and cultures (…).”, Dr. Glenville Ashby, Guyana/New York.
ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS & other projects
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“Espérance et sororité dans l’écriture de Nicole Cage-Florentiny | Small Axe Project.” sx salon, Columbia University, New York. 15 Dec. 2023. https://smallaxe.net/sxsalon/interviews/esperance-et-sororite-dans-lecriture-de-nicole-cage-florentiny
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"Nicole Cage et la carte poétique de sa Madinina." Madinin'Art, Fort-de-France, Martinique. 6 Aug. 2023. https://www.madinin-art.net/nicole-cage-et-la-carte-poetique-de-sa-madinina/
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“Chapter 8. Aruban, Bonairean and Curaçaoan Writers between the Caribbean and the Netherlands” Caribbean Cultural Heritage and the Nation. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao in a Regional Context. Eds. Alex van Stipriaan, Luc Alofs, Francio Guadeloupe. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2023. 153-167.
“Introduction/Inleiding”. to Quito Nicholas’s poetry collection Argus. Amsterdam: In de Knipscheer, 2019.
Caribbean Counterpoint. The Aesthetics of Salt in Lasana Sekou. St. Martin: House of Nehesi Publishers. 2019.
​​“The Quest for Roots: Sekou’s Brotherhood of the Spurs and the Search for a St. Martin Identity”. Moko - Caribbean Arts and Letters. Georges, Richard, Ed., 14. Nov 2018.
​"Sekou, Lasana M. “The Salt Metaphor in St. Martin’s Literature; History as Bane and Bountiful Reservoir of Victories”. Interview. Ed. Sara Florian. Tripwire, A Journal of Poetics, Buuck, David, Ed., Oakland, California: Bookmobile, 2015. 9. 113-121.
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“‘The Polyglot Pride of St. Martin’: An Interview with Lasana Sekou”. 15 May 2008. Philipsburg, St. Maarten. Small Axe, Salon. Joseph, Kelly, Ed. New York: Columbia University. 27 Oct 2010.
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“The Presence of Haitian Religion and Beliefs in Contemporary West Indian Poetry”. Il Tolomeo. Special Issue on Haiti. N. XIII, 2. Venezia: Studio LT2, 2010. 83-87.
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“Interview with Lasana M. Sekou. ‘The Salt Metaphor in St. Martin’s Literature; History as Bane and Bountiful Reservoir of Victories’”. Florian, Sara, Ed. 15 May 2008. Philipsburg, St. Maarten. Houseofnehesipublish.com. 9 May 2009.
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​“Interview with Lasana Sekou. May 2008”. Il Tolomeo. N. XII, 2. Venezia: Studio LT2, May 2009. 97-103.
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“Interview with Guillermo Verdecchia”. Il Tolomeo, Articoli, Recensioni e Inediti delle Nuove Letterature. N. IX. Venezia: Unipress, 2005. 23-24.
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REVIEWS
“The “Livity” of Culture: K. Brathwaite’s Liviticus and My Poetic Encounter with Kamau”. The Caribbean Writer. Lewis-Brown, Alscess, Ed. Vol 35. 2021. 35-45.
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“Review of Nicole Cage, Carrefour des Errances, ‘In the Belly of Nicole Cage’s Island’”. The Caribbean Writer. Lewis-Brown, Alscess, Ed. Vol 34. 2020. 552-554.
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“Review of Earl McKenzie’s The Rooms of His Life”. Jamaica Journal, Vol 37, 3. Robinson-Walcott, Kimberly, Ed. 2019. 92-93.
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“Review of Lasana M. Sekou’s Hurricane Protocol”. World Literature Today. Simon, Daniel, Ed., Norman, University of Oklahoma: Autumn 2019. 118-119.
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“Review of Lasana M. Sekou’s The Book of the Dead”. Tripwire, A Journal of Poetics. Buuck, David, Ed., Oakland, California: Bookmobile, 2019. 15. 319-322.
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“Review of Earl McKenzie’s Ernest Palmer’s Dream and Other Stories”. Bookends. The Sunday Observer. Leach, Sharon, Ed. 22 July 2018. 4.
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“Looking for the “Nation’s Passion” in the Pelican Heart of Lasana Sekou”. Book Review. St. Philipsburg, St. Maartin: Nehesi House, Aug 2011.
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“Review of Kei Miller, Ed., New Caribbean Poetry. An Anthology. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2007”. Caribbean Quarterly. Salter, Veronica, Ed. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press. Vol. 55 N. 4. Dec 2009. 86-87.
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“Review of Gemma Robinson, Ed., Martin Carter. University of Hunger. Collected Poems & Selected Prose. Highgreen, Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books, 2006”. Il Tolomeo. N. XII, 2. Venezia: Studio LT2, May 2009. 39-40.
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“Review of Mauro Buccheri, Elio Costa and Donald Holoch, Eds., The Power of Words, Literature and Society in Late Modernity. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2005”. Il Tolomeo. N. XII, 1. Venezia: Studio LT2, May 2009. 9-11.
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“Review of Kei Miller, Ed., New Caribbean Poetry. An Anthology. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2007”. Il Tolomeo. N. XII, 1. Venezia: Studio LT2, May 2009. 46-47.
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“Review of Edward Kamau Brathwaite's Born to Slow Horses”. Caribbean Quarterly. The Unity is Submarine. Salter, Veronica, Ed. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies. Vol. 55. N. 1, March, 2009. 102-105.
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“Review of François Laplantine and Alexis Nouss, Il Pensiero Meticcio”, Tr. by Carlo Milani (or. title Le Métissage), Milano: Elètheura, 2006”. Il Tolomeo. N. XI, 1. Venezia: Studio LT2, 2008. 22-23.
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“Review of Marie-Hélène Laforest, La Magia delle Parole. Omeros di Derek Walcott, Napoli: Guida, 2007”. Il Tolomeo. N. XI, I. Venezia: Studio LT2, 2008. 59-60.
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​​“Review of Julian Granberry and Gary S. Vescelius, Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles, Tuscaloosa, The University of Alabama Press, 2004”. Il Tolomeo. N. X, 2. Venezia: Studio LT2, 2007. 47-48.
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“Review of Ian Wedde, Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty, Auckland: AUP, D254”. Il Tolomeo. N. X, 2. Venezia: Studio LT2, 2007. 38.
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"Review of Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Born to Slow Horses, Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 2005”. Il Tolomeo. N. X, 1. Venezia: Studio LT2, 2007. 45-46.
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OTHER WORKS
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Invitation to speak at the Forum Series “Bringing Italian Monody to Life in Caccini’s Le Nuove Musiche”. Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University Singapore, Oct 2018.
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Contribution to Paolo E. Balboni, Sillabo di Riferimento per l’Insegnamento dell’Italiano nella Musica. SAIL, Studi sull’apprendimento e l’insegnamento linguistico. Venezia: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2018.​
Speak & Read Italian, Impara l'italiano. Project of Early Childhood Learning. Dub Voice Recording. WINKtoLEARN Pte. Ltd. & Globibo: Singapore, 2011.
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“Contemporary West Indian Poetry: a ‘Creole’ Aesthetics?” Ph.D. thesis. Venezia: Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2010.
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In collaboration with Maurizio Crema, “Trinidad e Tobago – Corrotti e inquinati, altro che paradiso”. Diario, riv. sett., Anno XII, N. 22, 8 giugno, Milano: Editoriale Diario, 2007. 52.
