| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Caribbean studies series
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Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
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| Note |
"The essays collected in this volume were presented at the "Haiti and the Americas: Histories, Cultures, Imaginations" Conference held at Florida Atlantic University from October 21 to 23, 2010." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Haiti has long played an important role in global perception of the western hemisphere, but ideas about Haiti often appear paradoxical. Is it a land of tyranny and oppression, or a beacon of freedom as site of the world's only successful slave revolution? A bastion of devilish practices, or a devoutly religious island? Does its status as the second independent nation in the hemisphere give it special lessons to teach about postcolonialism, or is its main lesson one of failure? This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of essays to examine the influence of Haiti throughout the hemisphere, to contextualize the ways that Haiti has been represented over time, and to look at Haiti's own cultural expressions in order to think about alternative ways of imagining its culture and history. Thinking about Haiti requires breaking through a thick layer of stereotypes. Haiti is often represented as the region's nadir of poverty, of political dysfunction, and of savagery. Contemporary media coverage fits very easily into the narrative of Haiti as a dependent nation, unable to govern or even fend for itself, a site of lawlessness that is in need of more powerful neighbors to take control. Essayists in this collection present a fuller picture, developing approaches that can account for the complexity of Haitian history and culture. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Haiti and Hemispheric Independence. Bolívar in Haiti : Republicanism in the Revolutionary Atlantic ; Between Anti-Haitianism and Anti-Imperialism : Haitian and Cuban Political Collaborations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Haiti and Transnational Blackness. Haiti, Pan-Africanism, and Black Atlantic Resistance Writing ; "Being a Member of the Colored Race" : The Mission of Charles Young, Military Attaché to Haiti, 1904-1907 -- The U.S. Occupation. Haiti's Revisionary Haunting of Charles Chesnutt's "Careful" History in Paul Marchand, F.M.C ; The Black Magic Island : The Artistic Journeys of Alexander King and Aaron Douglas from and to Haiti ; Foreign Impulses in Annie Desroy's Le Joug -- Globalization and Crisis. The Rhetoric of Crisis and Foreclosing the Future of Haiti in Ghosts of Cité Soleil ; A Marshall Plan for a Haiti at Peace : To Continue or End the Legacy of the Revolution -- Afterword : Neither France nor Senegal : Bovarysme and Haiti's Hemispheric Identity. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Haiti -- Congresses.
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Haiti. |
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HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Calargé, Carla, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Haiti and the Americas Conference (2010 : Florida Atlantic University). Haiti and the Americas. University Press of Mississippi : Jackson, 2013 9781617037580 (DLC) 2012038298 |
| ISBN |
9781621039334 (electronic book) |
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1621039331 (electronic book) |
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9781617037580 (electronic book) |
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1617037583 (electronic book) |
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9781617037573 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1617037575 |
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