Auguste Lacaussade Explained

Auguste Lacaussade (8 February 1815 – 31 July 1897) was a French poet who also worked as a translator and a librarian.^[1]

Auguste Lacaussade is a French mulatto born in Saint-Denis (Bourbon Island). Some of his works are on the theme of Maroons, such as Les Salaziennes (1839) or Le Lac des Goyaviers et le Piton d’Anchaine in Poèmes et Paysages (1897).^[2]

Selected works

Poems

• Les Salaziennes (1839)
• Poèmes et paysages (1852)
• Les Épaves (1861)

Songs

• Mon Etoile (1842) (feat. D. José Jesús Pérez, composer)
• La Voix de mes jours passés (1844) (feat. Peppe Gambogi, composer)

Further reading

• Book: Cook. Mercer . Mercer Cook . 1943. Auguste Lacaussade . Five French Negro authors . en . . 164 . 43013504. 493331189.
• Book: Kinsella . John . John Kinsella (poet) . 2017 . Auguste Lacaussade . Polysituatedness : a poetics of displacement . en . . 430. 10.7228/manchester/9781526113344.003.0023 . 9781526113344 . 1247941070 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Auguste Lacaussade. New England Review. 14 January 2016 .
2. Web site: The literature of slavery and maroonage on Reunion island. Portail-Esclavage-Reunion.