Recently added articles from Journal of Haitian Studies:
Au prisme des autres, des prises de l'Autre : Frankétienne
Apr 01, 2008; ... J'aime la littérature, elle est utile. -Michel Garneau, poète et dramaturge québécois Proportionality should be a guideline in war. Killing 50% to 90% of the people of 67 Japanese cities and then bombing them with two nuclear bombs is not proportional, in the minds of some ...
Totolomannwèl : Frankétienne and the One Man Show
Apr 01, 2008; ... C'est le clown qui m'intéresse, le clown tragique et pathétique qui joue notre dérision. La dimension du jeu clownesque est essentielle. C'est le miracle du théâtre (Interview, 2005).1 Frankétienne's fascination with the tragic clown, represented as a hybrid creature that combines the ...
Voyance au pays maudit: Allegorical Masks in Frankétienne's Fleurs d'insomnie
Apr 01, 2008; ... Critics of modern Caribbean poetry pay relatively little attention to the influence of Romanticism, which transformed and thus extended itself far beyond its "official" demise in 1848, much like contemporary historiography's "long" nineteenth century.1 This may be a matter of academic ...
Eating His Words: An Aesthetic of Rewriting Exemplified in Les Métamorphoses de l'Oiseau Schizophone
Apr 01, 2008; ... This article examines Frankétienne's practice of rewriting his own texts. It argues that rewriting shapes his oeuvre, providing him with the opportunity to mirror the characteristic openness and mobility of his principal literary aesthetic, the Spiral. Based on his most major rewriting to ...
Narrational Devices, Discourses of Emancipation: Frankétienne's: Les Affres d'un défi
Apr 01, 2008; ... Le roman Dézafi de l'Haïtien Frankétienne est organisé à coups d'éclatements successifs. Il n'y a guère d'épisode longtemps suivi. La langue fuse et rejaillit en écumes. [ ...] Je médite s'il s'agit là d'une obligation [ ...] je mets cela en parallèle avec les textes produits en Martinique, ...
Showing vs. Telling: Spiralisme in the Light of Antillanité
Apr 01, 2008; ... "I wrote the books Glissant should have written!" So spoke Frankétienne during an informal interview in the fall of 2004. It was a claim I might simply have attributed to artistic verve or, less generously, to writerly megalomania, had I not in fact been the first to consider the idea ....
Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment
Apr 01, 2008; ... Damming the Flood: Haiti,Aristide and the Politics of Containment. By Peter Hallward. London, New York: Verso, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-84467-106-9. 442 pp. $110.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. Damming the Flood is the latest book on the travails of Haiti from the last decade of 20th century to 2007 ....
The Joy of Completing a Translation in Class
Apr 01, 2008; ... In this article, I discuss how I came to work on "Gun Rap, Gun Show, Gun Culture," an excerpt of L'Amérique saigne (Gun Blesse America) by Frankétienne and Claude Dambreville (257-301), in an Introduction to translation course at Grand Valley State University. I describe my own autobiographical ...
Translators' comments on L'Amérique saigne (Gun Blesse America)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Alison Dykman Some of the statistics in this work seem to be a bit outrageous. The claim is made that murder is the number one cause of death by firearm, above accidents and suicides. It is also said that one in three high school and university students own a firearm. I would not be ...
A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804
Apr 01, 2008; ... A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804. By Laurent Dubois. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8078-5536-7. 466 pp. $22.50 paper. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French ...
From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influence
Apr 01, 2008; ... From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influence. By Nathalie Dessens. Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8130-3037-1. 257 pp. $65.00 cloth. From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influence by Nathalie Dessens is the latest addition to the ...
Being and Blackness in Latin America: Uprootedness and Improvisation
Apr 01, 2008; ... Being and Blackness in Latin America: Uprootedness and Improvisation. By Patricia D. Fox. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. ISBN: 0-81-30-2931-7. 207 pp. $59.95 cloth. In this well-argued monograph, Patricia D. Fox throws forth new theoretical methodologies for ...
Frankétienne: Kaselezo
Apr 01, 2008; ... Facsimile of the typescript used by Jean-Pierre Bernay to stage the drama in 1985 for the first time. The original of this unpublished work by Frankétienne in collaboration with the Centre dramatique franco-haïtien (director Jean-Pierre Bernay, actors Jenny Leignel, Michèle Lemoine and Paula ...
Frankétienne: H'Éros-Chimères
Apr 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes text stops here in original.) Excerpt from H'Éros-Chimères by Frankétienne (2002), pp. 245-254. Those ten pages of the book, titled "MONOLOGUE INTÉRIEUR EN CHAMBRE IMAGINAIRE (Spirale dramatique en un acte)" are quite representative of this work. But, at the same ...
The Roots of Haitian Despotism
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Roots of Haitian Despotism. By Robert Fatton Jr. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-1-58826-544-9. 269 pp. $58.00 cloth. Few scholars and observers of Haitian history, society and political economy would shy away from concluding that the country has been pushed to ...
Understanding the Sending Context of Haitian Immigrant Students
Oct 01, 2007; ... Introduction In the past twenty years, the immigration wave to the United States has increasingly challenged U.S. schools to meet the needs of students who come from different historical and cultural contexts. Immigrant children make up the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. child ...
Invasion or Infusion? Understanding the Role of NGOs in Contemporary Haiti
Oct 01, 2007; ... It is impossible to discuss development in Haiti without talking about nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Currently, most grant aid to Haiti is directed to one of more than 300 officially recognized NGOs. Given this, a critical understanding and evaluation of NGOs is essential; however, there ...
Encouragement, Consequences, Honor, Respect: Empowering Parents to Transition Successfully to a Democratic Culture
Oct 01, 2007; ... Introduction Contemporary research has shed light on the value of parenting interventions and their ties with culture: some researchers have demonstrated the protective effect of positive parenting against violence, delinquency, drug abuse, and mental illness in children (Gubler and ...
Dominican-Americans and the Politics of Empowerment
Oct 01, 2007; ... Dominican-Americans and the Politics of Empowerment. By Ana Aparicio. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2006. ISBN 0-8130-2925-2. 224 pages. $59.95 cloth. Dominican-Americans and the Politics of Empowerment is a study of how Dominicans in New York mobilize and enact social and ...
The Armorial of Haiti: Symbols of Nobility in the Reign of Henry Christophe
Oct 01, 2007; ... The Armorial of Haiti: Symbols of Nobility in the Reign of Henry Christophe. Edited by Clive Cheesman. London: The College of Arms, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9506980-2-1. 216 pages. £45 (U.S. price) Clive Cheesman proposes to his readers that, once upon a time, the king had clothes, and that his ...