Haiti and the Americas / edited by Carla Calarge ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Calarge, Carla.

Conference Name:

Haiti and the Americas Conference (2010 : Florida Atlantic University)

Series:

Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)

Caribbean studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Haiti.

Globalization.

Haiti--Congresses.

Haiti.

Genre:

Congresses

History.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 242 pages).

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.

Summary:

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of essays to examine the influence of Haiti throughout the hemisphere, to contextualise 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.

Contents:

I Haiti and Hemispheric Independence

1 Bolívar in Haiti: Republicanism in the Revolutionary Atlantic / Sibylle Fischer Fischer, Sibylle 25

2 Between Anti-Haitianism and Anti-imperialism: Haitian and Cuban Political Collaborations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Matthew Casey Casey, Matthew 54

II Haiti and Transnational Blackness

3 Haiti, Pan-Africanism, and Black Atlantic Resistance Writing / Jeff Karem Karem, Jeff 77

4 "Being a Member of the Colored Race": The Mission of Charles Young, Military Attaché to Haiti, 1904-1907 / David P. Kilroy Kilroy, David P. 96

III The U.S. Occupation

5 Haiti's Revisionary Haunting of Charles Chesnutt's "Careful" History in Paul Marchand, F.M.C / Bethany Aery Clerico Clerico, Bethany Aery 111

6 The Black Magic Island: The Artistic Journeys of Alexander King and Aaron Douglas from and to Haiti / Lindsay Twa Twa, Lindsay 133

7 Foreign Impulses in Annie Desroy's Le Joug / Nadève Ménard Ménard, Nadève 161

IV Globalization and Crisis

8 The Rhetoric of Crisis and Foreclosing the Future of Haiti in Ghosts of Cité Soleil / Christopher Garland Garland, Christopher 179

9 A Marshall Plan for a Haiti at Peace: To Continue or End the Legacy of the Revolution / Myriam J.A. Chancy Chancy, Myriam J.A. 199.

Notes:

"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."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781617037580

1617037583

9781621039334

1621039331

OCLC:

839388938

Publisher Number:

2027/heb34651 hdl