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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braziel, Jana Evans, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haitian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Haitian literature.

American literature--Haitian American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Social conditions.

Relations.

Politics and literature.

History.

American literature--Haitian American authors.

Haiti--In literature.

Haiti.

Race in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Politics and literature--Haiti--History.

United States--Relations--Haiti.

United States.

Haiti--Relations--United States.

Haiti--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

xxx, 308 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2010]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813034577

0813034574

OCLC:

437299341