Spirit possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou thought : an intellectual history / Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benedicty-Kokken, Alessandra, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vodou--Haiti.

Vodou.

Spirit possession--Haiti.

Spirit possession.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (437 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>This book recuperates the important history that Haitian thought around Vodou possession has had in French critical theory. </span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Possession, Dispossession, and Self-Possession; I: Dispossessions: Nationhood, Citizenship, Personhood, and Poverty; Chapter One: Hegel and Agamben; Chapter Two: States of Exception; Chapter Three: The Newest Utopia; Chapter Four: Mbembe's "Unhappiness" and Trouillot's "Fundamentally New Subjects"; II: Possession Dispossessed: Pathologizing and a "Western" Intellectual History of Possession; Chapter Five: "Unhappiness" as Taboo; Chapter Six: Secularizing Possession andFostering Revolution?; Chapter Seven: Leiris's "Lived Theater"

Chapter Eight: From Haiti to Brazil, from Herskovits to MétrauxChapter Nine: Verger's Image in Bataille'sTears of Eros; Chapter Ten: Possession, a Threshold to a Biopolitical Order; III: Repossessing Possession: After Franco-American Ethnography, after Duvalier-Vodou in Depestre's Hadriana dans tous mes rêves; Chapter Eleven: Depestre, the "Autofiction" of the "(Anti)Hero" of "A New World Mediterranean"; Chapter Twelve: The West's Obsession with Defining Art; Chapter Thirteen: Between Frankétienne and Glissant

IV: Self-Repossession: The Dispossessed and Their "New Subjectivities"-Jean-Claude Fignolé's and Kettly Mars's NovelsChapter Fourteen: On "Un-Becoming" Racial; Chapter Fifteen: Possession as Fluidity: Finding Equilibrium under a Neoliberal Order; Appendix; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7391-8466-0

OCLC:

896794369