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Author:

Braziel, Jana Evans, 1967-

Title:

Artists, performers, and black masculinity in the Haitian diaspora / Jana Evans Braziel.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

300 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Masculinity in art
Blacks in art
Gender identity in art
Expatriate artists--United States.
Expatriate artists--Canada.
Artists--Haiti.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-292) and index.

Contents:

Trans-American constructions of black heteromasculinity: Dany Laferri©·re, Le n©·gre, and the late-capitalist American racial Machine-d©♭sirante -- From Fort Dimanche to Brooklyn: transnational regimes of violence, Duvalierism, and failed heteromasculinity in Raoul Peck's Haitian corner -- "Honey, honey, miss thing": Assotto Saint's drag queen blues: queening the homeland, queer-fisting the dyaspora -- Drag-kinging the dyaspora: Dr©♭d performing black (female) masculinities in Haiti's tenth department -- (Rara) rap Haiti! Wyclef Jean's Chante pwen, embattled black masculinity, and diasporic remix as political protest -- Trans-American art on the streets:Jean-Michel Basquiat's black canvas bodies and urban vodou-art in Manhattan -- Conclusion: presidential politics, Haiti's Gwo n©·gs, and diasporic cultural production as transnational political protest

Series:

Blacks in the diaspora

ISBN:

0253219787 (pbk.)
9780253219787 (pbk.)
0253351391 (cloth)
9780253351395 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)177008074

LCCN:

2007051595

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)