Gratiant, Gilbert

LC control no.	no 97023954
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PQ3949.2.G68 (French)
Personal name heading	Gratiant, Gilbert *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Martinique
Birth date	1895
Death date	1985
Place of birth	Saint-Pierre (Martinique)
Profession or occupation	Poets Novelists Critics
Found in	Fables créoles et autres écrits, c1996: t.p. (Gilbert Gratiant) p. 4 of cover (1895-1985; from Martinique) LC database, 16 Apr. 1997 (hdg.: Gratiant, Gilbert) Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed April 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Gratiant, Gilbert; poet, novelist, literary critic, cultural critic; born 1895 in Saint Pierre, Martinique; founded the journal Lucioles to explore Franco-Caribbean literary identity of Martinique (1926); wrote his most important poem in French, Credo des Sang-Mêlé (1950); published his poetry in Creole under the title Fab' Compè Zicaque (1958) and reprinted (1970); his stylistic successors Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant pay homage to his “visionary of Caribbean authenticity” in their manifesto Eloge de la Créolité (1989) and (1993); died 1985)