Jacques Rabemananjara

Biography

Jacques Rabemananjara was a Betsimisarakan Malagasy politician, playwright, and poet. He was born in 1913 in Maroantsetra. Rabemananjara began his literary work on the Revue des Jeunes de Madagascar, _which was an early example of négritude writing. 1939 he was admitted to the Sorbonne and during his studies he met other influential African figures like Léopold Sédar Senghor and Alioune Diop, who also worked with the African studies journal _Presence Africaine. Rabemananjara's 1940 work Sur les marches du soir, influenced by fellow Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, dealt with the exile of Queen Ranavalona III buy French colonial powers. Rabemananjara published the first modern Malagasy play in French, Les dieux malgaches. _His most notable work was _Antidote, was which was written while he was imprisoned during the 1947 to 1950 uprising. Rabemananjara's poems were full of anger and defended the values of African culture. He served as vice president of Madagascar in 1960.

Birth Date

1913-06-23

Place of Birth

Death Date

2005-04-01

Malagasy, Betsimisarakan

Country of Nationality

Madagascar

Languages Spoken

Malagasy; French

University of Paris, Educational Insitute

Poems

Rabemananjara, Jacques. _Sur les Marches du Soir_ (_On the Steps of the Evening_).

Poetry Collections

Rabemananjara, Jacques. _Antidote_. 1947.

Speeches, Lectures, Interviews, Performances / Critical Articles, Media

Brocheux, Pierre. _Ho Chi Minh: A Biography_. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Mudimbe, V. Y. _The Surreptitious Speech: Presence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness 1947-1987_. University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Sources

Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Jacques Rabemananjara". Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Apr. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jacques-Rabemananjara. Accessed 4 May 2024.

Akhalbey, Francis. “How the Malagasy Uprising Spurred Madagascar’s Fight for Independence from France.” Face2Face Africa, 26 June 2018, https://face2faceafrica.com/article/how-the-malagasy-uprising-spurred-madagascars-fight-for-independence-from-france.

Compan-Barnard, Magali. “Jacques Rabemananjara.” Île en île, 12 Feb. 2002, https://ile-en-ile.org/rabemananjara/.

“Jacques Rabemananjara.” Wikipedia, 17 Feb. 2024. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacques_Rabemananjara&oldid=1208517999.