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Duvalier's ghosts : race, diaspora, and U.S. imperialism in Haitian literatures /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Braziel, Jana Evans, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2010]
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.
Table of Contents:
  • Kalfou danjere: state apparatus, war machine, and terror in a transnational context
  • Rethinking the Black Atlantic: trans-American regimes of violence, epistemological occlusions
  • Lòt bò dlo: transatlantic journeys, Haitian refugees, and the perils of the Black Atlantic
  • Liminal citizens: drifting between Ginen and Guantánamo
  • Lapè nan vant: 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.