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Duvalier's ghosts : race, diaspora, and U.S. imperialism in Haitian literatures
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Drawing on the diasporic cultural texts of several authors, such as Edwidge Danticat and Dany Laferriére, Jana Evans Braziel examines how writers participate in transnational movements for global s...
Drawing on the diasporic cultural texts of several authors, such as Edwidge Danticat and Dany Laferriére, 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 methods in Haiti, including surveillance, foreign aid, and military assistance.
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- Creator
- Jana Evans Braziel
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2010
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- 1 online resource (xxx, 308 pages)
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- 9780813045474, 9780813038247, 0813034574, 0813045479, 0813038243, 9780813034577
- OCLC
- ocn743256882, ocn437299341
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Haitian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- Haitian American authors -- History and criticism.
- Haiti -- In literature.
- Race in literature.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Politics and literature -- Haiti -- History.
- United States -- Relations -- Haiti.
- Haiti -- Relations -- United States.
- Haiti -- Social conditions -- 20th century.