Haitian Studies Association

Journal of Haitian Studies

Journal of Haitian Studies Fall 2019 – Volume 25, Number 2

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Table of Contents

SPIRITS AND THE BODY: GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN VODOU DANS
Embodying Dantò, Performing Freda, Dancing Lasirenn: Yonel Charles’s Choreographic Elaborations of Ezili
—Dasha A. Chapman
Manbo Ayizan on a New York Stage: How Roxane D’Orléans Juste Danced Women’s Movement Intelligence
—Mario LaMothe
The “Queerness” of Ceremony: Possession and Sacred Space in Haitian Religion
—Eziaku Nwokocha

LOCAL GOVERNANCE DURING NATIONAL CRISIS AND GLOBAL INTERVENTION: CASE STUDIES IN DISASTER RESPONSE
Production de la ville et catastrophe à Port-au-Prince : Entre défis et déficits de gouvernance urbaine
—Lefranc Joseph & Laura Moreno Segura
Rechèch sou teren apre Siklòn Matye
Entwodiksyon
—Mark Schuller
Relasyon èd entènasyonal ak politik lokal sou devlopman Pòsali : Ant paradòks ak pwopagann politik
—Nancy Marie Sherline Saint Louis
ONG ann Ayiti, lafwa, lespwa, fristasyon ak reziyasyon : Ka komin Kanperen
—Elkins Voltaire
Catastrophe naturelle, aides humanitaires et intervention des ONG face aux besoins réels de la population haïtienne : Un Regard critique sur la commune des Abricots
—Roseline Lamartinière

CATALOGUING HAITI: ARCHIVES AND TAXONOMIES
Haiti, Quebec, and the French Canadian Mission to Quisqueya (December 1937–January 1938): Perspectives from the Founder of the Montreal Botanical Garden, Brother Marie-Victorin
—Nicolas André, Liesl Picard, Arielle Jean-Louis, Geoffrey Hall, Luc Brouillet, Chantalle F. Verna, William Cinea, Brígido Peguero, Brett Jestrow, Beatrice Jean François, & Javier Francisco-Ortega
Writing against the Record: Emma’s Corporeal Archive
—Robert Sapp

RESEARCH NOTES
Légende haïtien, créateur translingue : Un Entretien avec Frankétienne
—Genevieve Waite
Yon ti koze ant Jacques Pierre ak Yves Dejean sou koze lang ann Ayiti
—Jacques Pierre

BOOK REVIEWS
Dézafi, by Frankétienne, translated by Asselin Charles
—Jocelyn Franklin
L’Ombre animale, by Makenzy Orcel
—Chantal Kénol
Douces déroutes, by Yanick Lahens
—Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo
Edwidge Danticat: The Haitian Diasporic Imaginary, by Nadège T. Clitandre
—Jana Evans Braziel
Disasters, Vulnerability, and Narratives: Writing Haiti’s Futures, by Kasia Mika
—Greg Beckett
The Dear Remote Nearness of You, by Danielle Legros Georges
—Patrick Sylvain
Vodou in the Haitian Experience: A Black Atlantic Perspective, edited by Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon S. Cleophat
—Lenny J. Lowe
Who Owns Haiti? People, Power, and Sovereignty, edited by Robert Maguire and Scott Freeman
—Andrea Steinke