{"id":7244872,"date":"2025-12-18T20:54:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/?post_type=app_event&#038;p=7244872"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:35:44","slug":"duels-an-evening-with-nehemy-dahomey","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/duels-an-evening-with-nehemy-dahomey\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDuels\u201d: An Evening with N\u00e9h\u00e9my Dahomey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>N\u00e9h\u00e9my Dahomey will be joined by Dr. Marlene Daut, an award-winning writer and professor at Yale University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set in 1842, this novel foregrounds a Haiti that is grappling with the weight of an onerous debt. In the town of Bo\u00ebn, a prosperous notary, Ludovic Possible, decides to take a bold step to secure the future of his community. He opens a schoolhouse where local children can learn both artisanal skills and the essential ability to read and write. The tranquility of Bo\u00ebn is soon shattered, however, by a series of duels that pit families, neighbors, and even animals against each other. As tensions rise, Ludovic\u2019s vision for a better future is threatened by the escalating violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn an admirable style, the author of the acclaimed Rapatri\u00e9s opens up a chapter of history that has been passed down to the present day, illuminated by the indelible popular culture whose secrets he reveals to us.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Le Point<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event is in English and is free. Please click\u202f&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/rsvp.zkipster.com\/NehemyPierreDahomey\">here<\/a>&nbsp;to RSVP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Born in Port-au-Prince in 1986, N\u00e9h\u00e9my Pierre-Dahomey is a writer, poet and\u200b philosopher. \u200bHis first novel,\u200b Rapatri\u00e9s\u200b (\u00c9ditions du Seuil\u200b, 2017\u200b) was \u200bawarded the Prix Cino Del Duca by the\u200b Acad\u00e9mie Fran\u00e7aise (2018), the Prix Carbet des Lyc\u00e9ens de la Cara\u00efbe(2018) and the Prix R\u00e9v\u00e9lation by the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Gens de Lettres (2017 )\u200b. N\u00e9h\u00e9my published his second novel, Combats, in 2021 \u2013 again with \u00c9ditions du Seuil. His\u200b upcoming third novel, L\u2019Ordre immuable des choses, is coming out in January 2026. N\u00e9h\u00e9my\u200b is currently in the French Literature, Thought and Culture department at New York University. \u200b<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u200bDr. Marlene Daut is \u200bProfessor of French, African American Studies, and History at Yale University. She is the author of\u200b The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe (Knopf, January 2025), the award-winning Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (UNC Press, 2023), Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Palgrave, 2017), and Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (Liverpool, 2015).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7245027,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[213],"app_city_tax":[217],"app_event_type":[],"class_list":["post-7244872","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-literature","app_city_tax-nyc"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201cDuels\u201d: An Evening with N\u00e9h\u00e9my Dahomey - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/duels-an-evening-with-nehemy-dahomey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cDuels\u201d: An Evening with N\u00e9h\u00e9my Dahomey - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"N\u00e9h\u00e9my Dahomey will be joined by Dr. Marlene Daut, an award-winning writer and professor at Yale University. 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