Duvalier's ghosts
Subtitle: race, diaspora, and U.S. imperialism in Haitian literatures
By: Jana Evans Braziel.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813034577
Subjects: Haitian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- Haitian American authors -- History and criticism; Race in literature; Imperialism in literature; Politics and literature -- Haiti -- History; Haiti -- In literature; United States -- Relations -- Haiti; Haiti -- Relations -- United States; Haiti -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rethinking the Black Atlantic: trans-American regimes of violence, pistemological occlusions; title: Transatlantic journeys, Haitian refugees, and the perils of the Black Atlantic; title: Liminal citizens: drifting between Ginen and Guantánamo; title: Hunger, poverty, and food economies; title: Aborted states of development: Haiti's historical revenants, post-Duvalier's daughters; title: Le cri des oiseaux fous: Duvalierism, development, state violence, and Duvalierism without Duvalier; title: Amour douleur folie: state violence and post-Duvalierist revenants; title: "He came to kill the preacher": saints, martyrs, torturers, and post-Duvalierist returns.