Lilas Desquiron

Lilas Desquiron (born 1946) is a Haitian-born writer and ethnologist. From 2001 to 2004, she served as Minister of Culture and Communications in the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.[1]

She was born in Port-au-Prince; her family came from Jérémie. From 1966 to 1970, she studied ethnology in Brussels and Paris, specializing in Afro-American religions. She later returned to France.[1]

Works
  • Racines de voudou, essay (1990)[1]
  • Les chemins de Loco-Miroir, novel (1990), translated into English as Reflections of Loko Miwa (1998)[1]
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gollark: The thing could plausibly be doing… antialiasing or whatever it's called, where if something is only partly within whatever you're drawing it's only partly shaded.
gollark: I don't know digital signal processing, so my code just does it in the very naive way I thought of after failing to get a FFT to work.
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gollark: Oh wait. It *should* be sin and not cos. Maybe that's it?

References
  1. "Lilas Desquiron". ile en ile (in French).


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