Haiti and the Americas /
edited by Carla Calargé, Raphael Dalleo, Luis Duno-Gottberg, and Clevis Headley.
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
- viii, 242 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
- Caribbean studies series .
- Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.) ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Haiti and Hemispheric Independence -- Bolívar in Haiti: Republicanism in the Revolutionary Atlantic / Between Anti-Haitianism and Anti-imperialism: Haitian and Cuban Political Collaborations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Haiti and Transnational Blackness -- Haiti, Pan-Africanism, and Black Atlantic Resistance Writing / "Being a Member of the Colored Race": The Mission of Charles Young, Military Attaché to Haiti, 1904-1907 / The U.S. Occupation -- Haiti's Revisionary Haunting of Charles Chesnutt's "Careful" History in Paul Marchand, F.M.C / The Black Magic Island: The Artistic Journeys of Alexander King and Aaron Douglas from and to Haiti / Foreign Impulses in Annie Desroy's Le Joug / Globalization and Crisis -- The Rhetoric of Crisis and Foreclosing the Future of Haiti in Ghosts of Cité Soleil / A Marshall Plan for a Haiti at Peace: To Continue or End the Legacy of the Revolution / Sibylle Fischer Matthew Casey Jeff Karem David P. Kilroy Bethany Aery Clerico Lindsay Twa Nadève Ménard Christopher Garland Myriam J.A. Chancy I 1 Fischer, Sibylle 25 -- 2 Casey, Matthew 54 -- II 3 Karem, Jeff 77 -- 4 Kilroy, David P. 96 -- III 5 Clerico, Bethany Aery 111 -- 6 Twa, Lindsay 133 -- 7 Ménard, Nadève 161 -- IV 8 Garland, Christopher 179 -- 9 Chancy, Myriam J.A. 199.
Haiti has long played an important role in global perception of the western hemisphere, but ideas about Haiti often appear paradoxical. Is it a land of tyranny and oppression or a beacon of freedom as site of the world's only successful slave revolution? A bastion of devilish practices or a devoutly religious island? Does its status as the second independent nation in the hemisphere give it special lessons to teach about postcolonialism, or is its main lesson one of failure? Haiti and the Americas brings together an interdisciplinary group of essays to examine the influence of Haiti throughout the hemisphere, to contextualize 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. Thinking about Haiti requires breaking through a thick layer of stereotypes. Haiti is often represented as the region's nadir of poverty, of political dysfunction, and of savagery. Contemporary media coverage fits very easily into the narrative of Haiti as a dependent nation, unable to govern or even fend for itself, a site of lawlessness that is in need of more powerful neighbors to take control. Essayists in Haiti and the Americas present a fuller picture developing approaches that can account for the complexity of Haitian history and culture."--Provided by publisher.