Duvalier's ghosts : race, diaspora, and U.S. imperialism in Haitian literatures /
Braziel, Jana Evans,1967-
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Guantánamo -- 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.
Haitian literature
American literature
Race in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Politics and literature