{"title":"Masters of the Dew","authors":"J. Roumain","doi":"10.2307/40088704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/40088704","url":null,"abstract":"This Haitian novel tells of Manuel's struggle to keep his little community from starvation during a drought.","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114309131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Memoirs of Toussaint and Isaac Louverture: Representing the Black Masculine Subject in Narratives of Mourning and Loss by Arthur F. Saint-Aubin (review)","authors":"John Saillant","doi":"10.1353/jhs.2018.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhs.2018.0026","url":null,"abstract":"To say Marlene Daut’s book is textured is extreme understatement. The book is carefully organized to follow a historical trajectory that is intellectual, political, and literary. Yet the depth of its analyses and the fastidious contextualization make it readable in any number of ways and directions. Indeed, each part functions independently, as do some of the chapters, providing a full examination of the landscape of each historical moment. The bibliographic references and details throughout the book make it a remarkable source for studying both individual narratives and transnational intertextual relationships as Daut moves gracefully through the Atlantic world. The literary scholar interested in narrative analyses could find an intriguing path from the introduction to part 2. The historian could read the introduction, part 4, and the coda. A student could benefit from the introduction alone. The various entry points make the book a daunting endeavor but a compelling one as well. If I had one criticism it would be that the book could be multiple volumes, each focusing its insights more specifically by trope, theoretical impulse, or historical moment. Thereby, each chapter’s nuances could be more delicately parsed and expanded for full rhetorical and interventionist effect. The magnitude of the work’s contribution would be more elaborated through a less dense approach, making this treasured collection of centuries of storytelling more accessible. I fear that the breadth may deter those who need to read it most, and the brilliance of the project might be overshadowed by its girth. However, this very breadth is also an undisputable strength, making Tropics of Haiti a not-to-be-missed invitation to any scholar interested in the Haitian Revolution. Accept it, engage its insights, and take up its challenges to rethink the historical moment and the lasting impact that the rhetorical marriage of race and violence continues to have on intellectual, political, and cultural thought and practice in the Atlantic world.","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131883855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Staging the Nation through Art Music of the Haitian Diaspora","authors":"Diana Golden","doi":"10.1353/jhs.2018.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhs.2018.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Haitian art composers of the diaspora have sought to show Haitian music's uniqueness as well as universality across cultures in order to create an internationally recognized, distinctly Haitian musical voice. As composers of the diaspora have established their individual musical voices, their collective choices have reflected a particular musical narrative staging the nation. Common themes reflected by Haitian composers of the diaspora from the 1960s to the present include nostalgia, fragmentation, cultural tensions, Vodou rhythms, political expression, the mixing of musical styles, and cosmopolitanism. This article examines works by composers Carmen Brouard and Julio Racine for their musical priorities in narrating the Haitian diaspora and staging the nation.","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114895462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Haiti and the Uses of America: Post–U.S. Occupation Promises by Chantalle F. Verna (review)","authors":"Millery Polyné","doi":"10.1353/JHS.2018.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JHS.2018.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129393059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sweden and Haiti, 1791–1825: Revolutionary Reporting, Trade, and the Fall of Henry Christophe","authors":"F. Thomasson","doi":"10.1353/JHS.2018.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JHS.2018.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Swedish newspaper Stockholms Posten reported twice weekly about the Haitian Revolution. A Stockholm reader would have known who Toussaint Louverture was; his name was in the paper 178 times between 1802 and 1804. Public opinion in Stockholm was mostly anticolonial. In the 1810s several Swedes were sent out from Stockholm to sell arms to independent Haiti. Their writings contain new important information on this tumultuous period. One (1821) is an especially interesting account of the fall of Henri Christophe's Northern Kingdom, and another is a firebrand treatise (1819) promoting decolonization in the Caribbean. Both Swedish and French merchants ignored the French blockade and traded under the Swedish flag with Haiti via the Swedish Caribbean colony Saint Barthélemy. In the 1810s Swedish territorial ambitions were replaced by aspirations to trade with the new American states. Sweden's relations with Haiti until the recognition in 1825 is yet another example that the narrative of Haitian post-independence isolation has been exaggerated.","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123846931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Interview with Contemporary Choreographer Jean Appolon on TRAKA, a Work in Progress","authors":"D. Georges","doi":"10.1353/JHS.2018.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JHS.2018.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Jean Appolon is the Boston-based choreographer, master teacher, and artistic director of Jean Appolon Expressions (JAE), a contemporary dance company that combines modern dance technique and Haitian folkloric dance. His recent works have served as meditations on such topics as the \"lakou\" and its loss in the Haitian imagination, social oppression including homophobia in Haiti, and Haitian history. He was interviewed by Danielle Legros Georges, Professor of Creative Writing at Lesley University and Poet Laureate of the City of Boston from 2015 to 2019","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121640104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Femmes au temps des carnassiers: Dictatorship and Gender in Two Novels by Marie-Célie Agnant","authors":"R. Larrier","doi":"10.1353/JHS.2018.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JHS.2018.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article provides a close reading of Marie-Célie Agnant's Un alligator nommé Rosa (2007) and Femmes au temps des carnassiers (2015), novels that examine the range of women's experiences during the Duvalier dictatorship. Inspired by real lives, they look back with a critical eye, offering multigenerational perspectives on the era and its aftermath. Agnant reimagines women who wield, abuse, defer to, contest, and resist power, as well as those who are coerced into silence in order to survive. By exploring the intersection of dictatorship, memory, and gender, Agnant advocates careful documentation of the past in order to lay the foundation for a democratic future, one that involves transparency, compromise, and above all, accountability.","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"562 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131451354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flore Zéphir nan entèvyou ak Michel DeGraff ansanm ak Jacques Pierre","authors":"Michel Degraff","doi":"10.1353/JHS.2018.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JHS.2018.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Flore Zéphir nan entèvyou ak Michel DeGraff. Pami pwen prensipal ke n te diskite nan konvèzasyon sa a, gen yon seri kesyon ki te enterese Flore pandan tout lavi pwofesyonèl li kòm lengwis: kesyon sou wòl lang ak idantite nan devlòpman ak byennèt nasyon nouȔni nan nivo kolektif popilasyon an, ni nan lavi chak grenn konpatriyòt nou yo, kit y ap viv nan peyi a, kit y ap viv lòt bò dlo. Flore t ap mennen menm konba ak gran kolèg mwen Pwof. Yves Dejean (Papa Iv) ki vin mouri an mas 2018, 3 mwa apre lanmò Flore. Papa Iv ak Flore te envesti anpil enèji nan goumen kont sistèm \"lekòl tèt an ba\" sa a ki se youn nan rezon prensipal ki fè peyi d Ayiti tèt an ba. Menm jan ak Yves Dejean, menm jan ak Jacques Pierre, menm jan ak mwen tou, e menm jan ak yon bann lòt konpatriyòt k ap reflechi san rete sou gwo pwoblèm sa a, Flore te rete kwè se lang kreyòl la ki pou sèvi kòm fondasyon pou lekòl tèt an wo ann Ayiti. Men, pifò nan rechèch syantifik Flore te konsène kominote ayisyen oz Etazini—espesyalman wòl lang kreyòl la nan kesyon idantite (oswa « ayisyanite ») kominote sa yo. Travay Flore sou tematik sa a gen yon enpòtans total kapital nan rechèch sosyo-lengwistik so. Mwen pèsonèlman toujou rekòmande piblikasyon Flore yo bay k ap fè rechèch sou dyaspora ayisyen, sou idantite yo, sou jan yo vin entegre ak divès kominote nan nouvo zòn kote yo vin emigre. Nan fè rechèch sou wòl lang kreyòl la nan kominote ayisyen sa yo k ap viv lòt bò dlo, Flore te ede n konprann enpòtans fondal natal lang kreyòl la pou lakay, ann Ayiti tou.","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129536399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom by Anne Eller (review)","authors":"Yveline Alexis","doi":"10.1353/JHS.2018.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JHS.2018.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116993751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visualizing Haiti in U.S. Culture, 1910–1950 by Lindsay J. Twa (review)","authors":"Jerry Philogene","doi":"10.1353/JHS.2018.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JHS.2018.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116403493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}