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Journal of Haitian Studies Spring/Fall 2024 – Volume 30
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SPECIAL ISSUE: THE RIGHTS TO LIVE CREATIVELY /
DWA POU VIV KREYATIVMAN
GUEST EDITORS: DASHA A. CHAPMAN,
MAMYRAH A. DOUGÉ-PROSPER, & MARIO LAMOTHE
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Rights to Live Creatively
—Dasha A. Chapman, Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper, & Mario LaMothe
US EMPIRE AND GENDER/SEXUAL POLITICS
Imperialism and Prostitution in Haiti (1915–1934)
—Sabine Lamour
Constructing a Kominote M Identity in Occupied Haiti
—Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper
The Afterlives of Global LGBT Human Rights in Haiti: Racial Capitalism and Accumulation by Documentation
—Erin L. Durban
Perceptions of Queer Transnational Migrants as Importers of Homosexuality into Haiti
—Carlo Handy Charles
Yon koze avèk militan Héritage ak Arc-en-Ciel d’Haïti / Conversations with Kominote M Activists from Héritage and Arc-en-Ciel d’Haïti
—Merlin Jean, Sandy Pierre, Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper, & Mario LaMothe
DIALOGIC KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Pearls and Paper: Fabiola Jean-Louis’s Visual Tropes of Fragility
—K. Adele Okoli & Fabiola Jean-Louis
A Haitian Feminist Gaze: Haitian Women Artists Reimagining Religious Iconography
—Gabrielle Mary Jean-Louis
Haitian Daughters of Memory: Queer Storytelling in Miami
—Nadege Green & Vanessa Charlot
Vibrations of Love: A Correspondence between Three Haitian Women
—Naïké Ledan, Djennifer Mercer, & Valérie Bah
Nocturnal Marronage in Queer Haiti: Practices of Resistance, Belonging, and Escape
—Ryan Joyce
Koze : Kò, sèks, ak entèdi nan fotografi Josué Azor yo / Conversation: Bodies, Sex, and the Forbidden in the Photography of Josué Azor
—Josué Azor, Pierre Michel Jean, & Mario LaMothe
FIELD NOTES: REFLECTIONS ON MENTORSHIP AND RESEARCH ON GENDER/SEXUALITY IN HAITIAN STUDIES
Dearest VèVè: A Letter
—Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
Field Notes on Queer Women’s Haiti: Changing Rhythms across Three Decades
—Elizabeth A. McAlister
Healing the Queer Spirit through Vodou, Psychology, and Advocacy
—Charlene Désir
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON ERIN L. DURBAN’S THE SEXUAL POLITICS OF EMPIRE: POSTCOLONIAL HOMOPHOBIA IN HAITI
The Power and Play of Language in Queer Haiti: Thinking with Erin Durban’s The Sexual Politics of Empire
—Dasha A. Chapman
On Progress and Return
—Carly Thomsen
Rassembler contre l’Homophobie: On The Sexual Politics of Empire
—Anahi Russo Garrido
Zombies, Voodoo Dolls, and Masisi: Toward a Queer Coalitional Politics
—Marina Magloire
REVIEWS
The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti, by Erin L. Durban
A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being, by Kaiama L. Glover
Entangled Otherness: Cross-Gender Fabrications in the Francophone Caribbean, by Charlotte Hammond
Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction, by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
Reviewed by Wigbertson Julian Isenia
We Pursue Our Magic: A Spiritual History of Black Feminism, by Marina Magloire
Reviewed by Derne Darelle Moutoula Niengou
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat, edited by Jana Evans Braziel and Nadège T. Clitandre
Reviewed by Derne Darelle Moutoula Niengou
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story, by Edwidge Danticat
Reviewed by Patrick Sylvain
White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti, by Grace Sanders Johnson
Reviewed by Frantzso Marcelin
Bay Lodyans: Haitian Popular Film Culture, by Cécile Accilien
Reviewed by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall