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2022 Digital Book Launch

Recent Books of Interest to Haitian Scholars (2020-2022)

prepared by

Dr. Petrouchka LL. Moïse  & Dr. Celucien L. Joseph 

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As we come together this year, we are showcasing titles published after our last in-person conference. So in keeping with the times, the Haitian Studies Association introduces our Digital Book Launch to display these new books in a more user-friendly format for your convenience. The following list includes books published during the pandemic and early 2022, including the forthcoming books closing out this year. This list of 60+ books includes texts written both in English and French. The books below address various issues and articulate different perspectives on Haiti and Haitian national history.

Listed below are the individual titles that will direct you to the purchasing site. Select the author from the index listed below for a brief book description.

Year 2020

  1. Cuba-Haïti : engager l’anthropologie: Anthologie critique et histoire comparée (1884-1959) by Kali Argyriadis, Emma Gobin, Maud Laëthier, Niurka Núñez González, Jhon Picard Byron (Éditions du CIDIHCA France, 2020)
  2. Révolution haïtienne et universalité des droits humains – Apports, parcours historique, perspectives edited by Pierre Buteau (Editions de l’Universite d’Etat d’Haiti, 2020)
  3. The Haitians: A Decolonial History by Jean Casimir , translated by Laurent Dubois (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2020)
  4. Narrations du Sensible: Récits post-traumatique de survivants de séisme du 12 janvier 2010 en Haïti by Jeff Matherson Cadichon (Editions de l’Universite d’Etat d’Haiti, 2020)
  5. The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Laurent Dubois, Kaiama L. Glover, , Nadève Ménard,, Millery Polyné, and Chantalle F. Verna (Chapel Hill: Duke University Press, 2020)
  6. Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora by Myriam J. A. Chancy (University of Illinois Press, 2020)
  7. Introduction au maladies parasitaires d’Haiti by Jacques Blaise and Christian P. Raccurt  (Editions de l’Universite d’Etat d’Haiti, 2020)
  8. Revolutionary Change and Democratic Religion: Christianity, Vodou, and Secularism by Celucien L. Joseph   (Pickwick Publications, 2020)
  9. Le vodou, le prêtre et l’ethnologue: Retour sur la polémique Joseph Foisset / Jacques Roumain (Haïti, 1942) by Lewis Ampidu Clormeus (Paris: HEMISPHERES, 2020)
  10. Identity and Ideology in the Haitian US Diaspora by Paul C. Mocombe (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020)
  11. Le problème Haïtien: Essaie sur les racines de la colonialité de l’État Haitien by Edelyn Dorismond (Edition Étoile Polaire, 2020)
  12. The Immortals by Makenzy Orcel and translated by Nathan H. Dize (State University of New York Press, 2020)
  13. L’Université d’État d’Haïti et sa quête de modernisation by Fritz Deshommes (Editions de l’Universite d’Etat d’Haiti, 2020)
  14. Haiti’s Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954 by Chelsea Stieber (NYU Press, 2020)
  15. L’État en Amérique latine : capitalisme, développement et crise hégémonique by Glodel Mezilas (Editions de l’Universite d’Etat d’Haiti, 2020)
  16.  La négation du droit à la nationalité en République dominicaine by Watson Denis (Editions de l’Universite d’Etat d’Haiti, 2020)

Year 2021

  1. Martin Luther King and The Trumpet of Conscience Today by Regine Michelle Jean-Charles ( Orbis, 2021)
  2. Humanity’s Last Stand: Confronting Global Catastrophe by Mark Schuller (Rutger University Press, 2021)
  3. Voyage de France à Saint-Domingue: Transcription d’un manuscript inédit introduced by David Geggus with Roger Little (Editions L’Harmattan, 2021)
  4. Recueil de législations diplomatiques et consulaires d’Haïti 1804-2020 edited by Olivier Theralus (Pro Éditions, 2021)
  5. What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy (The House Books, 2021)
  6. The Guise of Exceptionalism: Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti and the United States by Robert Fatton (Rutgers University Press, 2021)
  7. Haïti et le monde : Deux siècles de relations internationales by Wien Weibert Arthus (Bibliothèque Nationale d’Haïti, 2021)
  8. Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader by Michel-Rolph Trouillot and edited by Yarimar Bonilla, Greg Beckett, and Mayanthi L. Fernando (Duke University Press, 2021)
  9. Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities: Anténor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition edited by Celucien L. Joseph and Paul C. Mocombe (Routledge, 2021)
  10. Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall (University Press of Mississippi, 2021)
  11. Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte by Yveline Alexis (Rutgers University Press, 2021)
  12. Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora by Crystal Nicole Eddins (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
  13. Haiti’s Literary Legacies: Romanticism and the Unthinkable Revolution edited by Kir Kuiken edited and Deborah Elise White (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
  14. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat edited by Jana Evans Braziel and Nadège T. Clitandre (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
  15. Devenir prêtre ou prêtresse vodou en Haïti : Entrecroisement entre les impératifs de la continuité et du changement by Samuel Régulus (Presses de l’Université Laval, 2021)
  16. La didactisation du créole au cœur de l’aménagement linguistique en Haïti edited by Robert Berrouët-Oriol (Editions CIDIHCA/Zémès, Montréal (Canada)/Pétion-Ville (Haïti), 2021)
  17. Historical dictionary of Haiti edited by Féquière Vilsaint and Michael R. Hall (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)
  18. A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou: Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites by Benjamin Hebblethwaite (University Press of Mississippi, 2021)
  19. The Haiti Exception: Anthropology and the Predicaments of Narrative edited by Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, Jhon Picard Byron, Kaiama L. Glover, and Mark Schuller (Liverpool University Press, 2021)
  20. Stirring the Pot of Haitian History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, translated by Mariana F. Past and Benjamin Hebblethwaite (Liverpool University Press, 2021)
  21. Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti by Vincent Joos (Rutgers University Press, 2021)
  22. Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives edited by Cécile Accilien and Valérie K. Orlando (University of Florida Press, 2021)
  23. Haiti in the British Imagination: Imperial Worlds, 1847-1915 by Jack Daniel Webb (Liverpool University Press, 2021)
  24. Plaidoyer pour une Haïti démocratique : Essai de sociologie politique haïtienne couvrant la période de 1987 à 1994 by Théodore Oriol (Éditions universitaires européennes, 2021)
  25. Alleviative Objects: Intersectional Entanglement and Progressive Racism in Caribbean Art by David Frohnapfel (transcript publishing, 2021)
  26. Le Fascisme Mystique de Doctor Francois Duvalier en Haiti by Gerard Aubourg (Éditions du CIDIHCA France, 2021)
  27. The Pen and the Pan: Food, Fiction and Homegrown Caribbean Feminism(s) by Robyn Cope (University of West Indies Press, 2021)

Year 2022 

  1. Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology by Marlene L. Daut, Grégory Pierrot, and Marion C. Rohrleitner (University of Virginia Press, 2022)
  2. The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society by Philippe-Richard Marius (University Press of Mississippi, 2022)
  3. Spirit Service: Vodún and Vodou in the African Atlantic World edited by Eric James Montgomery, Timothy R. Landry, and Christian N. Vannier (Indiana University Press, 2022)
  4. The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean by Nick Nesbitt (University of Virginia Press, 2022)
  5. Le non-respect du droit de l’environnement : obstacle au développement durable en Haïti l’inexistence ou l’ineffectivité des règles environnementales en Haïti by Jonathan Belval (Éditions universitaires européennes, 2022)
  6. Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States by Leslie M. Alexander (forthcoming: University of Illinois Press, December 27, 2022)
  7. Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti by Pierre Minn (Cornell University Press, 2022)
  8. Transnational Hispaniola: New Directions in Haitian and Dominican Studies edited by April J. Mayes and Kiran C. Jayaram (University of Florida Press, 2022)
  9. Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (University of Virginia Press, 2022)
  10. The Antiracist World Language Classroom 1st Edition by Krishauna Hines-Gaither and Cécile Accilien (Routledge, 2022)
  11. Recette Haïtienne Contre face a la COVID 19 : Quel Impact Sur L’infection? by Audalbert Bien-Aime, Justin Casimir, Marc-Felix Civil, Ernst Noel, Marilise Rouzier (Editions de l’Universite d’Etat d’Haiti, 2022)
  12. La Révolution Servile Haïtienne et L’énigme du Retour by Jean Waddimir Gustinvil (Editions de l’Universite d’Etat d’Haiti, 2022)
  13. Critique de la Raison Dominicaine: La question de l’Antihaïtianisme by Goldel Mezilas (Editions de l’Universite d’Etat d’Haiti, 2022)
  14. Haïti, Réalités et Analyse: Un Regard des Sciences Humaines by Josue Vaval (Editions de l’Universite d’Etat d’Haiti, 2022)
  15. Construire la Démocratie Haïtienne Par le Bon Bout by Myrtha Gilbert (Editions de l’Universite d’Etat d’Haiti, 2022)
  16. The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti by Brandon R. Byrd (University of Pennsylvania, 2022)
  17. Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince edited by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (Pioneer Works Press, 2022)
  18. Banning Black Gods: Law and Religions of the African Diaspora by Danielle N. Boaz (Penn State University Press, 2022)
  19. Imaginaires jumelés – Poésie-images d’Haïti-Caraïbe by Gérald Bloncourt and Jean-Durosier Desrivières (Éditions du CIDIHCA France, 2022)