Jean joseph rabearivelo biography

A Malagasy poet who is widely considered to be Africa's first modern poet and the greatest literary artist of Madagascar.

Malagasy writer, one of the most important of African poets writing in French, considered to be the father of modern literature in his native land.

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo, was a Malagasy poet who is widely considered to be Africa's first modern poet and the greatest literary artist of Madagascar.

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Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (JJR) is generally acknowledged as the greatest twentieth-century poet of Madagascar and the first modern poet of Africa. He was born in in an impoverished but noble family in the capital city, Antananarivo, to an unwed mother. His birth name was Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo, which he changed later to Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. He worked as an assistant librarian at a Social Club and later as a proofreader at a publication house in Antananarivo. He corresponded with a wide range of writers around the world, including André Gide, Paul Valéry, Jean Amrouche, Paul Claudel, and Valery Larbaud, and spent large sums to buy books and ship them to Madagascar. JJR joined other Malagasy poets and writers to start a literary movement termed &#;Hitady ny Very&#; (&#;The Search for Lost Values&#;), to promote the traditional literary and oral arts of Madagascar such as Hainteny, Kabary and Ohabolana. He committed suicide in After Madagascar’s Independence in , he was decla

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Jean Joseph Rabearivelo

The Malagasy poet Jean Joseph Rabearivelo () was the first major French-language poet in Africa. Some of his most powerful poetry arose from the conflict between his intimacy with two cultures, Malagasy and French, and his estrangement from two societies, native and colonial.

Jean Joseph Rabearivelo was born on March 4, , in Tananarive (Madagascar) into a noble family which had been impoverished as a result of the abolition of slavery by the French authorities soon after the colonial conquest in He left school at 13 in order to earn a precarious livelihood as proofreader in a local printing shop.

Tananarive in the early s was a focus of intense literary and journalistic activity in the vernacular, and Rabearivelo was one of the first Malagasy poets to use the French language as his medium of literary expression. His early collections, La Coupe de cendres (), Sylves (), and Volumes (), were in the romantic-academic manner of such French 19th-cent

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Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

Malagasy writer (/ – )

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
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Born	Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo 4 March or Ambatofotsy, Madagascar
Died	22 June (aged 34 or 36) Antananarivo, Madagascar
Occupation	Poet
Literary movement	Romantic, post-symbolist, modernist, surrealist

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (4 March or – 22 June ), born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo, was a Malagasy poet who is widely considered to be Africa's first modern poet and the greatest literary artist of Madagascar. Part of the first Malagasy generation raised beneath French colonization, Rabearivelo grew up impoverished and failed to complete secondary education. His passion for French literature and traditional Malagasy oral poetry (hainteny) prompted him to read extensively and fostra himself on a variety of subjects, including the French language and its poetic and prose traditions. He published his first poems as an adolescent in local literary reviews, soon