Spirit possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou thought : an intellectual history /

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This book recuperates the important history that Haitian thought around Vodou possession has had in French critical theory.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Benedicty-Kokken, Alessandra, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.
Temas:
Vodou > Haiti.
Spirit possession > Haiti.
Vaudou > Haïti.
Possession par les esprits > Haïti.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Parapsychology > General.
Spirit possession.
Vodou.
Haiti.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: Among Haitian studies, Frnech critical theory, and Postcolonial theory
  • Introduction: Possession, dispossession, and self-possession: From pathology to healing, braiding intellectual histories
  • I: Dispossessions: Nationhood, citizenship, personhood, and poverty
  • Hegel and agamben: Materializing philosophy, philosophizing the material
  • States of eexception: Dayan, Trouillot, and Mbembe
  • the newest utopia: "Ending Poverty"
  • Mbembe's "Unhappiness" and Trouillot's "fundamentally new subjects"
  • II: Possession dispossessed: Pathologizing and a "Western" intellectual history of possession
  • "Unhappiness" as taboo: Anthropology, psychology, and the disciplining of "possession"
  • Secularizing possession and fostering revolution?: Breton's "Haitian lectures"
  • Leiris's "Lived Theater": Possession as the autobiography of the conscious and unconscous
  • From Haiti to Brazil, from Herskovits to Metraux: anthropology and human rights
  • Verger's image in Bataille's "Tears of Eros": Hollier's dispossessed intellectuals and Vodou thought
  • Possession, a threshold to a biopolitical order: de Certeau, Michel Foucault, Judith butler, and Athena Athanasiou
  • III: Repossessing possession: After Franco-American ethnography, after Duvalier
  • Vodou in Depestre's "Hadriana dans tous mes reves"
  • Depestre, the "autofiction" of the "(anti)hero" of "a new world mediterranean"
  • the West's obsession with defining art: Depestre's Joust with an aesthetic-empirical order of things
  • Betwen Franketienne and Glissant: Hadriana's realpolitik
  • IV: Self-repossession: The dispossessed and their "new subjectivities"
  • Jean-Claude Fignole's and Kettly Mars's Novels
  • On "Un-Becoming" racial: Jean-Claude Fignole's "Aube Tranquille"
  • Possession as fluidity: Finding equilibrium under a neoliberal order: Kettly Mars's "L'Heure hybride" and "Aux frontieres de las soif."

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