Duvalier's Ghosts : Race, Diaspora, and U.S. Imperialism in Haitian Literatures /

Drawing on the diasporic cultural texts of several authors, such as Edwidge Danticat and Dany Laferriere, Jana Evans Braziel examines how writers participate in transnational movements for global social justice. In their fictional works they discuss the Unites States' many interventionist metho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Braziel, Jana Evans, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
International relations.
Race in literature.
Politics and literature.
Literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Haitian literature.
American literature > Haitian American authors.
Litterature haïtienne (française) > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Race dans la litterature.
Imperialisme dans la litterature.
Politique et litterature > Haïti > Histoire.
Politics and literature > Haiti > History.
American literature > Haitian American authors > History and criticism.
Haitian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
Haiti.
Haïti > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Haiti > Social conditions > 20th century.
Haiti > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Haiti.
Haiti > In literature.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rethinking the Black Atlantic: trans-American regimes of violence, pistemological occlusions
  • Transatlantic journeys, Haitian refugees, and the perils of the Black Atlantic
  • Liminal citizens: drifting between Ginen and Guantánamo
  • Hunger, poverty, and food economies
  • Aborted states of development: Haiti's historical revenants, post-Duvalier's daughters
  • Le cri des oiseaux fous: Duvalierism, development, state violence, and Duvalierism without Duvalier
  • Amour douleur folie: state violence and post-Duvalierist revenants
  • "He came to kill the preacher": saints, martyrs, torturers, and post-Duvalierist returns.

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