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Journal of Haitian Studies Fall 2025 – Volume 31, Number 2

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Table of Contents

SOLIDARITIES AND DIVISIONS ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN

Dekonstriksyon mounite a nan tè melanje yo

—Williamson Ornéus

Resurrecting the Figure of the Slave in Union and Independence Struggles: The Supposed Origins of Haitian Migration to Guadeloupe (1970s)

—Dimitri Béchacq

CREATIVE FORMS OF TEMPORALITY, HISTORY, AND BIOGRAPHY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE

Archival Fictions: René Depestre’s Popa Singer

—Kaiama L. Glover

Fictions d’archives : Popa Singer de René Depestre

—Kaiama L. Glover

The Prophetic Specter of “Non-histoire” in Édouard Glissant’s Monsieur Toussaint and Fabienne Pasquet’s La Deuxième mort de Toussaint Louverture

—Lindsey Meyer

Frankétienne’s Magical Realism

—Jean-Ederson Jean-Pierre

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON SARA E. JOHNSON’S ENCYCLOPEDIE NOIRE: THE MAKING OF MOREAU DE SAINT-MERY’S INTELLECTUAL WORLD

Untelling/Retelling Black Lives: A Reflection on Sara Johnson’s Methodology in Encyclopédie Noire

—Leslie M. Alexander

“L’Utilité de cette espèce de science”

—Elise A. Mitchell

Decentering the Author, Recovering Voices: From Moreau’s Encyclopédie to Périès’s Histoire

—Manuel Covo

Disassemblage/Reassemblage and the Archival Problem

—Karen B. Graubart

Wonder as Creative Act: Methodological Approaches in Encyclopédie Noire

—Sara E. Johnson

RESEARCH NOTE

BLUME Haiti: Forging a Solid Bond with Potential Musicians through Cello

—Jacques Pierre

REVIEWS

Three Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti-Congo Story, by Danielle Legros Georges

—Reviewed by Patrick Sylvain

Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte, by Yveline Alexis

—Reviewed by Félix Jean-Louis III

I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom, by Julia Gaffield

—Reviewed by Michel Acacia

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe, by Marlene L. Daut

—Reviewed by Martha van Bakel

Reclaiming Haiti’s Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination, by Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson

—Reviewed by Unglid D Paul

Reclaiming Haiti’s Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination, by Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson

—Reviewed by Jeffney Ferdin

Haïti, la rançon de l’indépendance, directed by Wandrille Lanos

—Reviewed by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall

L’État haïtien et ses intellectuels. Socio-histoire d’un engagement politique (1801–1860),  by Délide Joseph

—Reviewed by Darlens Eliassaint

Passagères de nuit, by Yanick Lahens

—Reviewed by Patti M. Marxsen

The Citizenship Experiment: Contesting the Limits of Civic Equality and Participation in the Age of Revolutions, by René Koekkoek

The Unfinished Revolution: Haiti, Black Sovereignty and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, by Karen Salt

—Reviewed by James J. Fisher

The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction, by Lucy Swanson

—Reviewed by Lena Taub Robles