{"title":"Race, Reality, and Realpolitik: U.S.–Haiti Relations in the Lead Up to the 1915 Occupation by Jeffrey Sommers (review)","authors":"Brandon R. Byrd","doi":"10.1353/JHS.2018.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JHS.2018.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"141 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133686236","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":"Kèk konsèy pou fasilite entegrasyon etidyan nan lavi entelèktyèl","authors":"Pierre Minn","doi":"10.1353/JHS.2018.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JHS.2018.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Pou moun ki gen chans kontinye etid yo aprè segondè, ane nou pase nan inivèsite se yon peryòd nou aprann anpil. Atravè lekti, kou, seminè, echanj, deba, nou konfwonte nouvo lide, aprann nouvo teyori epi adopte nouvo tèknik kap sèvi nou nan metye nou vle pratike. Malerezman, etidye nan inivèsite pa bay garanti n ap kapab travay nan domèn nou te chwazi a. Gen anpil abitid ak pratik ki ka ede etidyan reyisi nan miliye akademik ak pwofèsyonèl, men anpil fwa, enfòmasyon sa pa fòmalize. Pafwa, etidyan limite posibilite yo paske yo pa gen esperyans pou entegre yon milye ki gen anpil nòm ak yerarchi. Nan tèks sa, mwen prezante senk konsèy ki ka fasilite entegrasyon etidyan ak jèn chèchè nan milye inivèsitè ak milye rechèch yo. Konsèy sa yo chita sou eksperyans mwen te genyen pandan mwen t ap fè mantora ann Amerik di Nò epi ann Ayiti. Mwen devlope konsèy sa yo sitou pou etidyan ki enskri nan pwogram metriz oubyen doktora, men m panse yo sa itil pou lòt moun tou. Mwen swete pou konsèy sa yo ede nou pwofite tout resous ki disponib nan milye akademik.","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"2 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":"116314318","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":"\"Masters of the Dew,\" 1938: A Story by Jacques Roumain","authors":"P. Marxsen","doi":"10.1353/JHS.2018.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JHS.2018.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A brief commentary on Jacques Roumain's \"Gouverneurs de la rosée\" (Masters of the Dew) followed by the first-ever translation of the short story into English.","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"20 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":"132384396","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":"Avant que les ombres s'effacent by Louis-Philippe Dalembert, and: Rapatriés by Néhémy Pierre-Dahomey (review)","authors":"Nathan H. Dize","doi":"10.1353/JHS.2018.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JHS.2018.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"88 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":"133013789","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":"L'Échec de l'aide internationale à Haïti: Dilemmes et égarements by Ricardo Seitenfus (review)","authors":"P. Minn","doi":"10.1353/JHS.2018.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JHS.2018.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"26 4 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":"125464716","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":"Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean by Jason Herbeck (review)","authors":"Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel","doi":"10.1353/JHS.2018.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JHS.2018.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"39 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":"125042167","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":"Entretien avec Makenzy Orcel, écrivain","authors":"Alexis Chauchois, Gilles Glacet","doi":"10.1353/jhs.2018.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhs.2018.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:An interview with Haitian novelist and poet Makenzy Orcel, discussing his approach to literature and the act of writing.","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"78 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":"116170491","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":"\"Rise Up Through the Words\": Postcolonial Haitian Uncoverings of Anacaona","authors":"Olivia Tracy","doi":"10.1353/jhs.2018.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhs.2018.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper investigates the literary presence and modern significance of Anacaona, leader of the last Taíno kingdom during the Columbian conquest of Ayti. After briefly exploring and analyzing her characterization in narratives by Christopher Columbus and Bartolomé de Las Casas, the paper focuses on Anacaona's representation in three works by Haitian diaspora writers: the play Anacaona by Jean Métellus (1986); the poem \"Anacaona\" by Danielle Legros Georges (2001); and the young adult novel Anacaona, Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490 by Edwidge Danticat (2005). As these authors re-present Anacaona, they each do so in a way that opposes the tragic, cooperative image presented by contemporaneous accounts. By invoking Anacaona as a native origin figure, one who exists both before and beyond European presence, these authors attempt to reclaim a kinship with the land of Ayti that creates the possibility of resistance and a renewed future for the postcolonial Haitian nation.","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"10 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":"114345476","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":"Crossing The Atlantic: Bouqui and Malice, a Caribbean Counterpoetics","authors":"F. Seck","doi":"10.1353/jhs.2018.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhs.2018.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article is a comparative study of trickster tales from a Haitian collection (Le Roman de Bouqui, by Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain) and a Senegalese collection (La Belle histoire de Leuk-le-lièvre, by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Abdoulaye Sadji). The analysis traces the transformation the stories underwent when they were transmitted as oral literature to slaves in the New World. Drawing on Maryse Condé's work, I relate Bouqui and Malice, two of the most famous characters of Caribbean folklore, to the bossale and the créole, two figures associated with slavery as well as with continuing social divisions in Haitian society. Using Glissant's concept of the contre-poétique, I investigate Bouqui and Malice's countercultural values as embedded in their stories, arguing that the storytellers crafted a form of fictional revenge through their folktales: by subverting the plot of the African tale, they confronted and challenged the dominant colonial discourse.","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"71 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":"125523648","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":"Cette charité qui tue. Haïti, l'aide internationale et les ONG by Mark Schuller (review)","authors":"Odonel Pierre-Louis","doi":"10.1353/JHS.2018.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JHS.2018.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"64 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":"134238544","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}