{"id":875,"date":"2021-06-10T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=875"},"modified":"2021-06-10T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T21:30:15","slug":"mwen-konnen-selman-kreyol-liv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2021\/06\/10\/mwen-konnen-selman-kreyol-liv\/","title":{"rendered":"Mwen konnen s\u00e8lman krey\u00f2l\u00a0 liv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02C80F2F-03F9-48F4-B605-F2EAEF160C7C_1_105_c.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-876\" src=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02C80F2F-03F9-48F4-B605-F2EAEF160C7C_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"982\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02C80F2F-03F9-48F4-B605-F2EAEF160C7C_1_105_c.jpeg 982w, https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02C80F2F-03F9-48F4-B605-F2EAEF160C7C_1_105_c-300x208.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02C80F2F-03F9-48F4-B605-F2EAEF160C7C_1_105_c-768x533.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With our friend and colleague Stephen Arnold in Guadeloupe at the 1993 African Lit Association. The occasion was the presentation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/africanlit.org\/the-fonlon-nichols-award\/\">Fonlon-Nichols Award<\/a> to the Cameroonian &#8211; Ivoirien novelist and playwright Werewere Liking.<\/p>\n<p>I had composed a short statement in the best Guadeloupean Kreyol I could muster.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I mustered well enough to have been sorely embarrassed when, afterwards, Guadeloupeans began speaking at me in it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Regr\u00e8t, mwen konnen s\u00e8lman krey\u00f2l<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>liv<\/em>, I had to say in my pitiful Haitian-inflected Kreyol:<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, All I know is book creole.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With our friend and colleague Stephen Arnold in Guadeloupe at the 1993 African Lit Association. The occasion was the presentation of the Fonlon-Nichols Award to the Cameroonian &#8211; Ivoirien novelist and playwright Werewere Liking. I had composed a short statement in the best Guadeloupean Kreyol I could muster.\u00a0 I mustered well enough to have been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2021\/06\/10\/mwen-konnen-selman-kreyol-liv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mwen konnen s\u00e8lman krey\u00f2l\u00a0 liv&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-creole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}