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Fall 2021 – Volume 27, Number 2
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MEMORY AND TEMPORALITY IN HAITIAN LITERATURE
Symbolic Ecologies: A Conch Shell Poetics for the Haitian Imaginary
—Julian H. Currents
Inheriting Haitian History: Communal Memory and Diasporic Arts of Resistance
—Norrell Edwards
HAITI’S INTERNATIONAL IMPACT
The Haitian Revolution and Debates on Black Pioneers in the Jamaican Militia
—Kameika S. Murphy
“¿Cómo no publicarlas?”: Editora Taller’s Publication of a Trio of Haitian-Authored Novels in the Dominican Republic
—Megan Jeanette Myers
REALISM AND REALITY: CONSTRUCTING THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
L’Imaginaire transatlantique à l’épreuve du réalisme haïtien : Séna de Fernand Hibbert
—Clint Bruce
Dézafi/Les Affres d’un défi et le paradigme dechoukaj
—Jean-Ederson Jean-Pierre
Getting Some in Paradise: History, Sex, and Destiny from Short Stories by Dany Laferrière to Laurent Cantet’s Vers le sud
—Haley L. Osborn
BOOK REVIEWS
The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution, by Jeremy Glick
—Raj G. Chetty
Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean, edited by Vanessa K. Valdés
—Danielle M. Dorvil
Transnational Hispaniola: New Directions in Haitian and Dominican Studies, edited by April J. Mayes and Kiran C. Jayaram
—Danielle M. Dorvil
Stirring the Pot of Haitian History, by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, translated and edited by Mariana Past and Benjamin Hebblethwaite
—Jean-Ederson Jean-Pierre
The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation, Context, and Legacy, edited by Julia Gaffield
—Dannie Brice
Logged in H.S.A. Members can download this issueSymbolic Ecologies: A Conch Shell Poetics for the Haitian Imaginary
—Julian H. Currents
Inheriting Haitian History: Communal Memory and Diasporic Arts of Resistance
—Norrell Edwards
HAITI’S INTERNATIONAL IMPACT
The Haitian Revolution and Debates on Black Pioneers in the Jamaican Militia
—Kameika S. Murphy
“¿Cómo no publicarlas?”: Editora Taller’s Publication of a Trio of Haitian-Authored Novels in the Dominican Republic
—Megan Jeanette Myers
REALISM AND REALITY: CONSTRUCTING THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
L’Imaginaire transatlantique à l’épreuve du réalisme haïtien : Séna de Fernand Hibbert
—Clint Bruce
Dézafi/Les Affres d’un défi et le paradigme dechoukaj
—Jean-Ederson Jean-Pierre
Getting Some in Paradise: History, Sex, and Destiny from Short Stories by Dany Laferrière to Laurent Cantet’s Vers le sud
—Haley L. Osborn
BOOK REVIEWS
The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution, by Jeremy Glick
—Raj G. Chetty
Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean, edited by Vanessa K. Valdés
—Danielle M. Dorvil
Transnational Hispaniola: New Directions in Haitian and Dominican Studies, edited by April J. Mayes and Kiran C. Jayaram
—Danielle M. Dorvil
Stirring the Pot of Haitian History, by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, translated and edited by Mariana Past and Benjamin Hebblethwaite
—Jean-Ederson Jean-Pierre
The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation, Context, and Legacy, edited by Julia Gaffield
—Dannie Brice
Spring 2021 – Volume 27, Number 1
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MECHANISMS OF REPRESSION AND REFORM
Lang nan pwodiksyon sosyete ayisyen an : Istorik, fòs pouvwa ak konsyantizasyon
—Lefranc Joseph
Toward a Decentralized Haitian State: The Promises and Shortcomings of the Post-Duvalier Constitution of 1987
—Vanessa L. Deane
SUBJECTIVITY AND SEXUALITY: REBELLIONS AGAINST THE COLONIAL ORDER
Black Women beyond Scandal
—Nathalie Batraville
Voice, Gaze, and Community in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano
—Ibis Sierra Audivert
ACTIVISM, BELONGING, AND NATION BUILDING AMONG HAITIAN IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES
All Work Is Cultural Work: Paid Labor and Cultural Citizenship
—Nikita Carney
Race, Nation, or Community? Political Strategy and Identity-Making within the Transnational Haitian Diaspora in Miami’s “Little Haiti”
—Jamella N. Gow
APPLYING HAITIAN STUDIES IN THE CLASSROOM
Comment enseigner le film documentaire sur Haïti ? L’Exemple d’Assistance mortelle de Raoul Peck
—Françoise Cévaër
BOOK REVIEWS
Alleviative Objects: Intersectional Entanglement and Progressive Racism in Caribbean Art, by David Frohnapfel
—Carlo A. Célius
Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene, by Mimi Sheller
—John Patrick Walsh
Haiti and the American Military Occupation (1915–1934), by Raoul B. Altidor
American Imperialism’s Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism, by Raphael Dalleo
—Celucien L. Joseph
Istwa across the Water: Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination, by Toni Pressley-Sanon
—Angela Watkins
Logged in H.S.A. Members can download this issueLang nan pwodiksyon sosyete ayisyen an : Istorik, fòs pouvwa ak konsyantizasyon
—Lefranc Joseph
Toward a Decentralized Haitian State: The Promises and Shortcomings of the Post-Duvalier Constitution of 1987
—Vanessa L. Deane
SUBJECTIVITY AND SEXUALITY: REBELLIONS AGAINST THE COLONIAL ORDER
Black Women beyond Scandal
—Nathalie Batraville
Voice, Gaze, and Community in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano
—Ibis Sierra Audivert
ACTIVISM, BELONGING, AND NATION BUILDING AMONG HAITIAN IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES
All Work Is Cultural Work: Paid Labor and Cultural Citizenship
—Nikita Carney
Race, Nation, or Community? Political Strategy and Identity-Making within the Transnational Haitian Diaspora in Miami’s “Little Haiti”
—Jamella N. Gow
APPLYING HAITIAN STUDIES IN THE CLASSROOM
Comment enseigner le film documentaire sur Haïti ? L’Exemple d’Assistance mortelle de Raoul Peck
—Françoise Cévaër
BOOK REVIEWS
Alleviative Objects: Intersectional Entanglement and Progressive Racism in Caribbean Art, by David Frohnapfel
—Carlo A. Célius
Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene, by Mimi Sheller
—John Patrick Walsh
Haiti and the American Military Occupation (1915–1934), by Raoul B. Altidor
American Imperialism’s Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism, by Raphael Dalleo
—Celucien L. Joseph
Istwa across the Water: Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination, by Toni Pressley-Sanon
—Angela Watkins
Fall 2020 – Volume 26, Number 2
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CURRENTS OF INFLUENCE IN HAITIAN RELIGIOUS PRACTICE
The Blood of a Pig Has No Power: Lame Selès and the Spirit-Filled History of the Haitian Revolution
—Lenny J. Lowe
Celtic Origins of Bosou Twa Kòn: Creolization and Appropriation of the Three-Horned Bull in Haitian Vodou
—Tom Berendt
LOCAL AND GLOBAL COMMUNITY MOBILIZATIONS
“We Know How to Work Together”: Konbit, Protest, and the Rejection of INGO Bureaucratic Dominance
—Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson
Rodney Saint-Éloi, Mémoire d’Encrier, and the Utopia of “Living-Together”
—Bonnie Thomas
INTIMACY, AMBIGUITY, AND DISSIDENCE: LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF HAITI UNDER DUVALIERISM
Kettly Mars’s Saisons sauvages: Perverse States, Racial Erotics
—F. Joseph Sepúlveda
L’Haïti métaphorique de Frankétienne : Un Écosystème engagé et spiraliste
—Genevieve Waite
RESEARCH NOTE
Research Articles Focusing on Haitians: A Review of Published Quantitative and Qualitative Research Data
—Theresa Alphonse, Juanita Barnett, Balkys Bivins, Marie Etienne, Magdaleina Joseph, Thamy Junis, Guerda Nicolas, Judith Seme, & Candice Sternberg
BOOK REVIEWS
Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-earthquake Haiti, by Ralph R. Frerichs
—Natasha Joseph
Madan Sara, directed by Etant Dupain
—Ella Turenne
Une Soirée haïtienne, edited by Thomas C. Spear
—Hugues Saint-Fort
Le Précepteur du Prince-Royal Victor-Henry, by William Wilson, translated by Marie-Thérèse Chenet and Lucienne Zennie
—LeGrace Benson
Haiti’s Paper War: Post-independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954, by Chelsea Stieber
—James J. Fisher
Logged in H.S.A. Members can download this issueThe Blood of a Pig Has No Power: Lame Selès and the Spirit-Filled History of the Haitian Revolution
—Lenny J. Lowe
Celtic Origins of Bosou Twa Kòn: Creolization and Appropriation of the Three-Horned Bull in Haitian Vodou
—Tom Berendt
LOCAL AND GLOBAL COMMUNITY MOBILIZATIONS
“We Know How to Work Together”: Konbit, Protest, and the Rejection of INGO Bureaucratic Dominance
—Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson
Rodney Saint-Éloi, Mémoire d’Encrier, and the Utopia of “Living-Together”
—Bonnie Thomas
INTIMACY, AMBIGUITY, AND DISSIDENCE: LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF HAITI UNDER DUVALIERISM
Kettly Mars’s Saisons sauvages: Perverse States, Racial Erotics
—F. Joseph Sepúlveda
L’Haïti métaphorique de Frankétienne : Un Écosystème engagé et spiraliste
—Genevieve Waite
RESEARCH NOTE
Research Articles Focusing on Haitians: A Review of Published Quantitative and Qualitative Research Data
—Theresa Alphonse, Juanita Barnett, Balkys Bivins, Marie Etienne, Magdaleina Joseph, Thamy Junis, Guerda Nicolas, Judith Seme, & Candice Sternberg
BOOK REVIEWS
Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-earthquake Haiti, by Ralph R. Frerichs
—Natasha Joseph
Madan Sara, directed by Etant Dupain
—Ella Turenne
Une Soirée haïtienne, edited by Thomas C. Spear
—Hugues Saint-Fort
Le Précepteur du Prince-Royal Victor-Henry, by William Wilson, translated by Marie-Thérèse Chenet and Lucienne Zennie
—LeGrace Benson
Haiti’s Paper War: Post-independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954, by Chelsea Stieber
—James J. Fisher
Fall 2020 – Volume 26, Number 1
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CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE 1930S–1950S: INNOVATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS
Haitian Creole Comes of Age: Philology, Orthography, Education, and Literature in the “Haitian Sixties,” 1934–1957
—Matthew Robertshaw
The Rockefeller Foundation and Haitian Artists: Maurice Borno, Jean Chenet, and Luce Turnier
—Lindsay J. Twa
RHETORICAL STRUCTURES OF DEHUMANIZATION AND RESISTANCE
How to Kill with Words: The Convergence of Dominican and German Rhetoric in the 1937 Haitian Massacre
—Nadège Veldwachter
Le Corps noir : Une Metaphore scientifique pour traduire les ressorts du racisme
—Brigitte Tsobgny
Timescapes of “Catastrophe Permanente”: Writing the Interstices of Disaster in Emmelie Prophète’s Impasse Dignité
—Jocelyn Sutton Franklin
BOOK REVIEWS
Migration and Refuge: An Eco-archive of Haitian Literature, 1982–2017, by John Patrick Walsh
—Robert Decker
Everything Inside, by Edwidge Danticat
—Patrick Sylvain
Marie Vieux Chauvet’s Theatres: Thought, Form, and Performance of Revolt, edited by Christian Flaugh and Lena Taub Robles
—Sophie Maríñez
The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution, by Julius S. Scott
—Ronald Angelo Johnson
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism, by Marlene L. Daut
—Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken
Logged in H.S.A. Members can download this issueHaitian Creole Comes of Age: Philology, Orthography, Education, and Literature in the “Haitian Sixties,” 1934–1957
—Matthew Robertshaw
The Rockefeller Foundation and Haitian Artists: Maurice Borno, Jean Chenet, and Luce Turnier
—Lindsay J. Twa
RHETORICAL STRUCTURES OF DEHUMANIZATION AND RESISTANCE
How to Kill with Words: The Convergence of Dominican and German Rhetoric in the 1937 Haitian Massacre
—Nadège Veldwachter
Le Corps noir : Une Metaphore scientifique pour traduire les ressorts du racisme
—Brigitte Tsobgny
Timescapes of “Catastrophe Permanente”: Writing the Interstices of Disaster in Emmelie Prophète’s Impasse Dignité
—Jocelyn Sutton Franklin
BOOK REVIEWS
Migration and Refuge: An Eco-archive of Haitian Literature, 1982–2017, by John Patrick Walsh
—Robert Decker
Everything Inside, by Edwidge Danticat
—Patrick Sylvain
Marie Vieux Chauvet’s Theatres: Thought, Form, and Performance of Revolt, edited by Christian Flaugh and Lena Taub Robles
—Sophie Maríñez
The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution, by Julius S. Scott
—Ronald Angelo Johnson
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism, by Marlene L. Daut
—Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken
Fall 2019 – Volume 25, Number 2
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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
Logged in H.S.A. Members can download this issueEmbodying 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