Review: The Dear Remote Nearness of You, by Danielle Legros Georges. (2019). Journal of Haitian Studies, 25(2), 301-305. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26926679
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Review: Vodou in Haitian Memory: The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination, by Celucien L. Joseph, Nixon S. Cleophat. (2019). Journal of Haitian Studies, 25(1), 231-234. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26790813
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Review: Vodou in the Haitian Experience: A Black Atlantic Perspective, by Celucien L. Joseph, Nixon S. Cleophat. (2019). Journal of Haitian Studies, 25(2), 305-308. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26926680
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Review: Who Owns Haiti? People, Power, and Sovereignty, by Robert Maguire, Scott Freeman. (2019). Journal of Haitian Studies, 25(2), 309-312. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26926681
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Runaways, Repertoires, and Repression: Marronnage and the Haitian Revolution, 1766–1791. (2019). Journal of Haitian Studies, 25(1), 4-38. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26790801
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Secret History: or, The Horrors of St. Domingo in a Series of Letters . . . (Philadelphia, 1808): Saint-Domingue through the Lens of an American Woman on the Eve of Haitian Independence
Accilien · 2019 · Journal of Haitian Studies 25(1), 66-90
Secret History: or, The Horrors of St. Domingo in a Series of Letters . . . (Philadelphia, 1808): Saint-Domingue through the Lens of an American Woman on the Eve of Haitian Independence. (2019). Journal of Haitian Studies, 25(1), 66-90. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26790803
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Secret History: or, The Horrors of St. Domingo in a Series of Letters … (Philadelphia, 1808): Saint-Domingue through the Lens of an American Woman on the Eve of Haitian Independence
Accilien · 2019 · Journal of Haitian Studies 25(1), 66-89
Leonora Sansay went to Saint-Domingue in 1802 with her husband, a planter attempting to recover the estate he had abandoned, and published her letters to Aaron Burr six years later as an epistolary novel.
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Leonora Sansay went to Saint-Domingue in 1802 with her husband, a planter attempting to recover the estate he had abandoned, and published her letters to Aaron Burr six years later as an epistolary novel. Accilien reads that book as a record of how a Western outsider tried to make sense of a revolution for which, as Trouillot put it, European thought had no frame of reference.
The reading attends closely to the machinery of the form. Sansay divides herself between a narrator, Mary, who writes the letters, and a protagonist, Clara, whose story they tell — a distance that lets the account pass as mere observation. What emerges is a picture of how whites, free people of color and the enslaved stood toward one another in the colony's last months, and of French complacency as the war closed in. Accilien ends on Sansay's nostalgia and her unresolved position on slavery.
Secret History: or, The Horrors of St. Domingo in a Series of Letters … (Philadelphia, 1808): Saint-Domingue through the Lens of an American Woman on the Eve of Haitian Independence. (2019). Journal of Haitian Studies, 25(1), 66-89. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhs.2019.0002
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The “Queerness” of Ceremony: Possession and Sacred Space in Haitian Religion. (2019). Journal of Haitian Studies, 25(2), 71-90. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26926664
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Mocombe's phenomenological structuralism treats consciousness as a fifth force of nature: a quantum field whose particles, which he names psychions, are recycled across a multiverse and embodied through the…
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Mocombe's phenomenological structuralism treats consciousness as a fifth force of nature: a quantum field whose particles, which he names psychions, are recycled across a multiverse and embodied through the microtubules of evolved brains. Vodou metaphysics supplies the frame, with the lwa understood as eternal forms and the lwa met tèt as an alternative to the psychoanalytic unconscious.
The application here is to language. Philosophy of language has split between truth-conditional accounts descended from the Tractatus and use-based accounts descended from the Investigations, with postmodernism extending the latter; rather than choose, this account insists the two are one philosophy. Reality has a logical-grammatical structure that innate grammar tracks, and that structure is then obscured by the ordinary speech, ideology and institutions of whoever controls a society's resources. The result is not one speech community but many, leaving those marginalized within them to accept or defer the meanings they are assigned.
Theory of Language and Meaning in Phenomenological Structuralism. (2019). Archives in Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology, 1(4). https://doi.org/10.33552/ABEB.2019.01.000518
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What's in a Name? Slave Trading during the French and Haitian Revolutions
Girard · 2019 · The William and Mary Quarterly 76(4), 763
Girard opens on an 1802 Guadeloupe census of hundreds of people described as belonging to the State: legally free under the abolition of 1794, yet catalogued with a price beside each name, called negre while…
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Girard opens on an 1802 Guadeloupe census of hundreds of people described as belonging to the State: legally free under the abolition of 1794, yet catalogued with a price beside each name, called negre while planters were addressed as citizens, and reenslaved within months. The document poses his question. When France had outlawed slavery and the trade in captives, what should one call the traffic that plainly continued?
The traffic persisted in substance while the word was avoided. Ships under French captains supplied Saint Domingue out of Kingston; exiles took the people they owned overseas instead of freeing them; cultivators were kidnapped and sold in Santo Domingo; privateers landed recaptured Africans in Guadeloupe; officials shipped prisoners of war to Central America and the United States.
To sort cases Girard proposes three tests, asking whether a movement was voluntary, whether unpaid forced labour followed, and whether profit was the motive, and reads the era's shifting vocabulary as both cover and evidence.
What's in a Name? Slave Trading during the French and Haitian Revolutions. (2019). The William and Mary Quarterly, 76(4), 763. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.76.4.0763
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Yon ti koze ant Jacques Pierre ak Yves Dejean sou koze lang ann Ayiti. (2019). Journal of Haitian Studies, 25(2), 268-280. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26926673
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An Illustrated Approach to HPV and Cervical Cancer Education among Haitian Women. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(1), 52-74. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26527978
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An Interview with Contemporary Choreographer Jean Appolon on TRAKA, a Work in Progress. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(2), 126-132. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26600007
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An n bati lekòl tèt an wo: Lang manman, pedagoji ak teknoloji kòm engredyan fondal natal pou yon chanjman radikal. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(2), 114-124. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26600006
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Beyond Mentions: New Approaches to Comparative Studies of Haiti
Stieber · 2018 · Early American Literature 53(3), 961-975
Reviewing three recent works on Haiti and the early United States — Dun's Dangerous Neighbors, Dillon and Drexler's essay collection, and Daut's Tropics of Haiti — Stieber notes that all three answer…
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Reviewing three recent works on Haiti and the early United States — Dun's Dangerous Neighbors, Dillon and Drexler's essay collection, and Daut's Tropics of Haiti — Stieber notes that all three answer Trouillot's call to unsilence Saint-Domingue, and all three complicate it. Far from unthinkable, the revolution was narrated constantly, and in racialized terms, in Philadelphia newspapers and across the Atlantic print world.
Her sharper point concerns method. Silencing the Past deserves reading whole, she argues, rather than being mined for its chapter on Atlantic silences: the book widens outward from disputes internal to Haitian historiography to the framing of Columbus's landfall. The trouble is that the Haitian detail becomes imperceptible as the frame widens, and comparative scholarship risks reproducing that flattening. Her proposed remedy is to bring the work done in Haiti — journals, monographs, the Haitian press — properly into view.
Beyond Mentions: New Approaches to Comparative Studies of Haiti. (2018). Early American Literature, 53(3), 961-975. https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2018.0086
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Biogas Program for Cooking in Haiti: Helping to Save Life, the Environment, and the Economy. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(1), 25-51. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26527977
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Crossing the Atlantic: Bouqui and Malice, a Caribbean Counterpoetics. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(1), 76-100. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26527979
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Femmes au temps des carnassiers: Dictatorship and Gender in Two Novels by Marie-Célie Agnant. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(2), 86-113. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26600005
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Flore Zéphir nan entèvyou ak Michel DeGraff ansanm ak Jacques Pierre. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(2), 133-142. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26600008
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From Revolution to Sovereignty on the Island of Kiskeya
Daut · 2018 · Reviews in American History 46(3), 375-384
Two books, Daut argues, mark a shift in how nineteenth-century Hispaniola is studied: away from what Europeans and North Americans said about Haiti and toward what Haitians and Dominicans said and did…
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Two books, Daut argues, mark a shift in how nineteenth-century Hispaniola is studied: away from what Europeans and North Americans said about Haiti and toward what Haitians and Dominicans said and did themselves. She notes how rarely scholars in the United States consult Haitian-produced historiography, the Revue de la Société haïtienne d'histoire above all.
Gaffield asks whether other Atlantic governments actually treated Haiti as sovereign after 1804, and shows that France's attempt to cut the new state out of trade failed, commerce continuing with Curaçao, St. Thomas and the Batavian Republic. Eller crosses to the eastern side of the island, tracing how unification loyalties outlasted the separation of the 1840s, how Dominican elites manufactured anti-Haitian feeling and a raceless national identity, and how popular resistance to Spain's 1861 annexation strained Geffrard's official neutrality.
Together, Daut concludes, they dismantle the story of Haitian isolation.
Occupying Creole: The Crisis of Language under the US Occupation of Haiti. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(1), 4-24. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26527976
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Review of Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora: Travelling Blackness, CelesteManoucheka
Fanning and Celeste · 2018 · NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 92(1/2), 181-182
Fanning weighs a compact study of how American media have pictured Caribbean migrants, and finds it well suited to teaching.
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Fanning weighs a compact study of how American media have pictured Caribbean migrants, and finds it well suited to teaching. Celeste sets New York Times coverage from 1994 to 2004 beside photographs, captions and celebrity biography to show Haitians rendered as a flood and Cubans as refugees from communism, with the Elián González affair and the charge that Haitians carried AIDS as her two test cases. Racial hostility, Celeste concludes, explains the gap better than Cold War politics do.
The review admires her step-by-step account of method, which it suggests could be turned on European coverage of Syrian refugees, and singles out the chapter on Mia Love, whose Haitian background is deployed while her family's migration story is played down. Its main reservation concerns the interviews with fans, summarized rather than transcribed, which leaves later scholars little to work with.
Review of Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora: Travelling Blackness, CelesteManoucheka. (2018). NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 92(1/2), 181-182. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134360-09201038
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Review: Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean, by HerbeckJason. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(1), 158-161. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26527984
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Review: Avant que les ombres s’effacent by WespieserSabine; Rapatriés, by Pierre-DahomeyNéhémy. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(1), 169-172. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26527987
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Review: Cette charité qui tue. Haïti, l’aide internationale et les ONG, by SchullerMark. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(1), 161-164. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26527985
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Review: Haiti and the Uses of America: Post-U.S. Occupation Promises, by VernaChantalle F. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(2), 150-152. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26600011
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Review: L’Échec de l’aide internationale à Haïti: Dilemmes et égarements, by SeitenfusRicardo, ReuillardPascal. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(1), 173-175. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26527988
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Review: Race, Reality, and Realpolitik: U.S.–Haiti Relations in the Lead Up to the 1915 Occupation, by SommersJeffrey. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(1), 183-187. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26527990
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Review: The Memoirs of Toussaint and Isaac Louverture: Representing the Black Masculine Subject in Narratives of Mourning and Loss, by Saint-AubinArthur F.
Saillant · 2018 · Journal of Haitian Studies 24(2), 156-160
Review: The Memoirs of Toussaint and Isaac Louverture: Representing the Black Masculine Subject in Narratives of Mourning and Loss, by Saint-AubinArthur F. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(2), 156-160. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26600013
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Review: Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789–1865, by DautMarlene L. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(2), 153-156. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26600012
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Review: Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror, and the Zombie Complex, by CussansJohn. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(1), 165-168. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26527986
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Review: Visualizing Haiti in U.S. Culture, 1910–1950, by TwaLindsay J. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(1), 175-183. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26527989
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Review: We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom, by EllerAnne. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(2), 144-146. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26600009
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Sweden and Haiti, 1791–1825: Revolutionary Reporting, Trade, and the Fall of Henry Christophe
Thomasson · 2018 · Journal of Haitian Studies 24(2), 4-36
Swedish readers followed the Haitian Revolution closely. Thomasson notes that Stockholms Posten reported on it twice a week, that Toussaint Louverture's name appeared in its pages 178 times between 1802 and…
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Swedish readers followed the Haitian Revolution closely. Thomasson notes that Stockholms Posten reported on it twice a week, that Toussaint Louverture's name appeared in its pages 178 times between 1802 and 1804, and that opinion in the capital ran mostly against colonialism.
Commerce followed the coverage. During the 1810s Stockholm sent men out to sell weapons to independent Haiti, and what they wrote adds to the record of those years. An account from 1821 describes the collapse of Henri Christophe's kingdom in the north; a tract from 1819 argues fiercely for decolonizing the Caribbean. Swedish and French merchants alike worked around the French blockade by trading under Sweden's flag through its Caribbean colony of Saint Barthélemy.
By that decade Sweden had set aside territorial ambition in favor of trade with the new American states. Thomasson reads the whole record, up to recognition in 1825, as further evidence that Haiti's isolation after independence has been overstated.
Sweden and Haiti, 1791–1825: Revolutionary Reporting, Trade, and the Fall of Henry Christophe. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(2), 4-36. https://doi.org/10.2307/26600003
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Whiteness in the Ancestral Waters: Race, Religion, and Conversion within North American Buddhism and Haitian Vodou
Daniels · 2018 · The Journal of Interreligious Studies
Maya Deren traveled to Haiti in the 1950s and was initiated as a manbo. Daniels uses her case to ask what it means when white North Americans convert to religions long practiced almost entirely by people of…
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Maya Deren traveled to Haiti in the 1950s and was initiated as a manbo. Daniels uses her case to ask what it means when white North Americans convert to religions long practiced almost entirely by people of color — a question she approaches through Vodou's own cosmology, in which the dead come to rest in Afrik-Ginen, an underwater homeland described as the legendary site of racial origin but never expressly closed to whites.
The essay sets out a working theory of whiteness, then treats the earlier history of North American conversion to Buddhism as a precedent for white initiation into African diasporic traditions. Deren's standing as an immigrant artist, Daniels argues, gave her a sideways relation to whiteness and let her understand the journey to Haiti as a homecoming. What she entered was a system of ritual kinship whose obligations reached well past the boundaries of the living.
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Whiteness in the Ancestral Waters: Race, Religion, and Conversion within North American Buddhism and Haitian Vodou. (2018). The Journal of Interreligious Studies.
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“Rise Up through the Words”: Postcolonial Haitian Uncoverings of Anacaona. (2018). Journal of Haitian Studies, 24(1), 101-126. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26527980
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“What Now?”: The Wailing Black Woman, Grief, and Difference
Celeste · 2018 · Black Camera 9(2), 110-131
Celeste builds an essay around a figure she names the wailing black woman: the mourning mother whose public grief is offered as evidence of injustice.
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Celeste builds an essay around a figure she names the wailing black woman: the mourning mother whose public grief is offered as evidence of injustice. The starting point is Rihanna singing about wanting to scream, which Celeste hears as an expression of frustration shared by black women across the diaspora whose footing with the state and society remains insecure.
The essay tracks how that figure has been represented over time before settling on the reality series The First 48, which films victims' relatives at their rawest. Celeste takes up sociologist Herman Gray's invitation to examine what media images make audiences feel, treating the sentiment that collects around coverage of people of color as a form of labor.
Two questions organize the argument: how the wailing woman is enlisted in familiar stories about black death, criminality, and citizenship, and what her affective labor might disrupt. She appears both as a warning the program issues and as a potentially oppositional figure.
"Nous l'avons gardée en nous, la tranche blanche": Rethinking the Time of the Haitian Flag in Jean F. Brierre's "Le Drapeau de demain" (1931). (2017). Journal of Haitian Studies, 23(1), 35-58. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44478371
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"We Are Your Neighbors": Edwidge Danticat's New Narrative for Haiti. (2017). Journal of Haitian Studies, 23(1), 98-118. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44478374
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Becoming Indigenous in Haiti, from Dessalines to La Revue Indigène
Perry · 2017 · Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 21(2), 45-61
Perry traces a long line of Haitian indigenist thought and treats it as an alternative to diaspora as a way of framing Caribbean identity.
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Perry traces a long line of Haitian indigenist thought and treats it as an alternative to diaspora as a way of framing Caribbean identity.
Two periods anchor the argument: the war of independence, and the cultural movement of the 1920s that formed in opposition to the United States occupation. In both, indigenous rhetoric was about sovereignty. It grounded claims to territory in descent, and it defined certain people as foreign and demanded their removal.
The term indigene, Perry argues, marked a position taken up against an imperial power more often than it named any fixed set of cultural traits, which makes the claim political rather than essentialist. Examining how this rhetoric imagined a relation to the island's aboriginal Taino, the essay sets out what a discourse attempting to root Africans and their descendants in the space of the New World could do, where it fell short, and where it contradicted itself.
Becoming Indigenous in Haiti, from Dessalines to La Revue Indigène. (2017). Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 21(2), 45-61. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156762
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Becoming Spanish in Florida: Georges Biassou and his “Family” in St. Augustine
Johnson · 2017 · Journal of Transnational American Studies 8(1)
Georges Biassou reached St. Augustine in 1796 at fifty-five, having led rebel forces early in the Haitian Revolution, joined Spain's Black Auxiliaries when Madrid offered freedom and military rank, and stayed…
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Georges Biassou reached St. Augustine in 1796 at fifty-five, having led rebel forces early in the Haitian Revolution, joined Spain's Black Auxiliaries when Madrid offered freedom and military rank, and stayed loyal to the crown even after France declared general emancipation. When the Treaty of Basel forced the unit's dissolution, he and a household of twenty-four — relatives, dependents, fellow soldiers, a few slaves — were moved by way of Cuba to Spanish Florida.
Johnson's contribution is to read him as a product of French Saint-Domingue rather than as a revolutionary. Biassou had negotiated for the freedom of the rebel leadership, not for the abolition of slavery, and remained a royalist by conviction; officials who feared he would import insurrection had misjudged the man, if not the moment, since Pointe Coupée had risen the year before. His awkward position in Florida exposes how differently French and Spanish colonies handled free people of colour.
Becoming Spanish in Florida: Georges Biassou and his “Family” in St. Augustine. (2017). Journal of Transnational American Studies, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.5070/T881036609
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Beyond "The Black Jacobins": Haitian Revolutionary Historiography Comes of Age. (2017). Journal of Haitian Studies, 23(1), 4-34. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44478370
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Beyond The Black Jaco Bins: Haitian Revolutionary Historiography Comes Of Age
Sepinwall · 2017 · Journal of Haitian Studies 23(1), 4-34
Sepinwall asks what place C. L. R. James's 1938 study still holds among specialists in the Haitian Revolution, at a moment when the book is being rediscovered by Caribbean theorists, British readers on the…
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Sepinwall asks what place C. L. R. James's 1938 study still holds among specialists in the Haitian Revolution, at a moment when the book is being rediscovered by Caribbean theorists, British readers on the left, and even American venture capitalists. Its long dominance, she suggests, was less a compliment to James than an indictment of a field Anglophone historians had largely abandoned.
Tracing the book's early reception and then setting it against work published since the 1990s, she finds a mixed inheritance. Scholars still credit James with insisting that the enslaved freed themselves, and one of them was pushed toward the study of ordinary insurgents by James himself. But newer research in notarial and court records has complicated his portraits of free people of color, his weighting of class over race, and his near-silence on women. The field, on her account, no longer needs a single book to stand in for it.
Beyond The Black Jaco Bins: Haitian Revolutionary Historiography Comes Of Age. (2017). Journal of Haitian Studies, 23(1), 4-34. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhs.2017.0000
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Beyond the Morality Tale of Humanitarianism: Epistolary Narration and Montage in Raoul Peck's "Assistance mortelle". (2017). Journal of Haitian Studies, 23(1), 75-95. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44478373
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Emerante de Pradines: The Birth of a Legend and the Making of a Tradition. (2017). Journal of Haitian Studies, 23(1), 162-168. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44478377
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Intertexts of the Ecological: Literary Space Revisited in Yanick Lahens’s Bain de lune. (2017). Journal of Haitian Studies, 23(2), 81-106. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26431819
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La Révolution haïtienne dans les manuels scolaires français, 1857–2011. (2017). Journal of Haitian Studies, 23(2), 32-56. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26431817
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Mirror Mausoleums, Mortuary Arts, and Haitian Religious Unexceptionalism
Daniels · 2017 · Journal of the American Academy of Religion 85(4), 957-984
Maya Deren, the Ukrainian American filmmaker who went to Haiti in the 1950s and was initiated as a manbo in Vodou, is the case at the center of this essay.
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Maya Deren, the Ukrainian American filmmaker who went to Haiti in the 1950s and was initiated as a manbo in Vodou, is the case at the center of this essay. Daniels asks what drew her to the religion, how she built ties with other devotees, and what her path suggests about white North Americans who take up traditions practiced mainly by people of color.
Getting there requires some theoretical work on whiteness itself, and Daniels reads earlier North American conversions to Buddhism as a precedent for white entry into African Diasporic religions. Deren's position as an immigrant and an artist, on this account, gave her a slanted relationship to whiteness and let her cast the trip to Haiti as a return home.
The essay concludes that Deren was absorbed into a system of ritual kinship whose ties extended past the limits of the living world.
Mirror Mausoleums, Mortuary Arts, and Haitian Religious Unexceptionalism. (2017). Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 85(4), 957-984. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfx012
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