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Author:

Braziel, Jana Evans, 1967-

Title:

Duvalier's ghosts : race, diaspora, and U.S. imperialism in Haitian literatures / Jana Evans Braziel.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xxx, 308 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Haitian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Haiti--In literature.
Race in literature
Imperialism in literature
Politics and literature--Haiti--History.
United States--Relations--Haiti.
Haiti--Relations--United States.
Haiti--Social conditions--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Rethinking the Black Atlantic: trans-American regimes of violence, pistemological occlusions -- Transatlantic journeys, Haitian refugees, and the perils of the Black Atlantic -- Liminal citizens: drifting between Ginen and Guant©Łnamo -- Hunger, poverty, and food economies -- Aborted states of development: Haiti's historical revenants, post-Duvalier's daughters -- Le cri des oiseaux fous: Duvalierism, development, state violence, and Duvalierism without Duvalier -- Amour douleur folie: state violence and post-Duvalierist revenants -- "He came to kill the preacher": saints, martyrs, torturers, and post-Duvalierist returns.

ISBN:

0813034574 (alk. paper)
9780813034577 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)437299341

LCCN:

2009044781

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)