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Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing
The literature on Haiti is vast. What follows is a necessarily partial list of books and films we recommend, largely focused on English-language works.
General Works
Averill
,
Gage
.
A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti
.
Chicago
:
University of Chicago Press
,
1997
.Beaubrun
,
Mimerose P.
Nan Dòmi: An Initiate’s Journey into Haitian Vodou
.
San Francisco
:
City Lights
,
2013
.Bellegarde-Smith
,
Patrick
, and
Michel
Claudine
, eds.
Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, Reality
.
Bloomington
:
Indiana University Press
,
2006
.Bouchereau
,
Madeleine Sylvain
.
Haïti et ses femmes: Une étude d’évolution culturelle [Haiti and its women: A study of cultural evolution]
.
Port-au-Prince
:
Les Éditions Fardin
,
1957
.Brown
,
Karen McCarthy
.
Mama Lola: A Haitian Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
.
Berkeley
:
University of California Press
,
2011
.Casey
,
Matthew
.
Empire’s Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba during the Age of US Occupation
.
Cambridge
:
Cambridge University Press
,
2017
.Chapman
,
Dasha A.
,
Durban-Albrecht
Erin L.
, and
LaMothe
Mario
. “
Nou Mache Ansanm (We Walk Together): Queer Haitian Performance and Affiliation
.”
Special issue, Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory
27
, no.
2
(
2017
).Dalembert
,
Louis-Philippe
, and
Trouillot
Lyonel
.
Haïti: Une traversée littéraire [Haiti: A literary journey]
.
Paris and Port-au-Prince
:
Philippe Rey and Presses Nationales d’Haïti
,
2010
.Dash
,
J. Michael
.
Haiti and the United States: National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination
.
New York
:
Palgrave
,
1996
.Dejean
,
Yves
.
“Yon lekòl tèt anba nan yon peyi tèt anba” [An upside down school system in an upside down country]
.
Port-au-Prince
:
Fokal
,
2006
.Desmangles
,
Leslie
.
Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman Catholicism
.
Chapel Hill
:
University of North Carolina Press
,
1992
.Dubois
,
Laurent
.
Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
.
New York
:
Metropolitan Books
,
2012
.Haiti: An Island Luminous
.
http://islandluminous.fiu.edu/
.Jackson
,
Régine O.
, ed.
Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora
.
New York
:
Routledge
,
2011
.Lerebours
,
Michel-Philippe
.
Bref regard sur deux siècles de peinture haïtienne (1804–2004) / Brief overview of two centuries of Haitian painting (1804–2004
).
Port-au-Prince
:
Éditions de l’Université d’État d’Haïti
,
2018
.Maguire
,
Robert
, and
Freeman
Scott
, eds.
Who Owns Haiti? People, Power, and Sovereignty
.
Gainesville
:
University Press of Florida
,
2017
.Nicholls
,
David
.
From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race, Colour and National Independence in Haiti
.
New Brunswick, NJ
:
Rutgers University Press
,
1996
.Plummer
,
Brenda Gayle
.
Haiti and the United States: The Psychological Moment
.
Athens
:
University of Georgia Press
,
1992
.Polyné
,
Millery
.
From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan Americanism
.
Gainesville
:
University Press of Florida
,
2010
.Trouillot
,
Michel Rolph
.
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
.
Boston
:
Beacon
,
1996
.Part I
Daut
,
Marlene
.
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
.
New York
:
Palgrave Macmillan
,
2017
.Dayan
,
Colin (Joan)
.
Haiti, History, and the Gods
.
Berkeley
:
University of California Press
,
1998
.Dubois
,
Laurent
.
Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
.
Cambridge, MA
:
Harvard University Press
,
2004
.Fick
,
Carolyn
.
The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below
.
Knoxville
:
University of Tennessee Press
,
1990
.Gaffield
,
Julia
.
Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution
.
Chapel Hill
:
University of North Carolina Press
,
2015
.James
,
C. L. R.
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint Louverture and the San Domingo Revolution
.
New York
:
Vintage
,
1989
.Part II
Eller
,
Anne
.
We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti and the Fight for Freedom
.
Durham, NC
:
Duke University Press
,
2016
.Hector
,
Michel
, and
Hurbon
Laënnec
, eds.
Genèse de l’état Haïtien (1804–1859) [The genesis of the Haitian state (1804–1859)]
.
Port-au-Prince
:
Editions Presse Nationales d’Haïti
,
2009
.Ramsey
,
Kate
.
The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti
.
Chicago
:
University of Chicago Press
,
2015
.Sheller
,
Mimi
.
Democracy after Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica
.
Gainesville
:
University Press of Florida
,
2000
.Smith
,
Matthew J.
Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica after Emancipation
.
Chapel Hill
:
University of North Carolina Press
,
2014
.Parts III and IV
Bellegarde-Smith
,
Patrick
.
In the Shadow of Powers: Dantès Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought
.
Atlantic Highlands, NJ
:
Humanities Press International
,
1985
.Castor
,
Suzy
.
L’occupation américaine d’Haïti
.
Port-au-Prince
:
Société haïtienne d’histoire
,
1988
.Corvington
,
Georges
.
Port-au-Prince au cours des ans: La capitale d’Haïti sous l’occupation, 1915–1922 [Port-au-Prince over the years: The capital of Haiti under occupation, 1915–1922]
.
Port-au-Prince
:
Deschamps
,
1984
.Corvington
,
Georges
.
Port-au-Prince au cours des ans: La capitale d’Haïti sous l’occupation, 1922–1934 [Port-au-Prince over the years: The capital of Haiti under occupation, 1922–1934]
.
Port-au-Prince
:
Deschamps
,
1987
.Gaillard-Pourchet
,
Gusti
.
L’experience Haïtienne de la dette exterieure (ou) production cafeiere pillee, 1875–1915 [The Haitian experience of foreign debt or coffee production pillaged]
.
Port-au-Prince
:
Imprimerie Henri Deschamps
,
2001
.Manigat
,
Leslie
.
“La substitution de la prépondérance américaine à la prépondérance française en Haïti au début du XXe siècle: La conjoncture de 1910–1911” [The substition of the supremacy of the United States of America for the supremacy of France at the start of the twentieth century: The context of 1910–1911]
.
Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine
14
(
October
–
December
1967
):
321
–
55
;
reprinted in Leslie Manigat, Eventail d’histoire vivant d’Haïti, vol. 3. Port-au-Prince: CHUDAC, 2001
.Plummer
,
Brenda Gayle
.
Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902–1915
.
Baton Rouge
:
Louisiana State University Press
,
1988
.Renda
,
Mary A.
Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915–1940
.
Chapel Hill
:
University of North Carolina Press
,
2001
.Schmidt
,
Hans
.
The United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915–1934
.
New Brunswick, NJ
:
Rutgers University Press
,
1995
.Shannon
,
Magdaline
.
Jean Price-Mars, the Haitian Elite and the American Occupation, 1915–35
.
New York
:
Palgrave Macmillan
,
1997
.Part V
Fowler
,
Carolyn
.
A Knot in the Thread: The Life and Work of Jacques Roumain
.
Washington, DC
:
Howard University Press
,
1980
.Paulino
,
Edouardo
.
Dividing Hispaniola: The Dominican Republic’s Border Campaign against Haiti, 1930–1961
.
Pittsburgh
:
University of Pittsburgh Press
,
2016
.Philoctète
,
René
.
Massacre River
. Translated by
Coverdale
Linda
.
New York
:
New Directions
,
2008
.Roumain
,
Jacques
.
Masters of the Dew
. Translated by
Hughes
Langston
.
London
:
Heinemann
,
1987
.Smith
,
Matthew J.
Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934–1957
.
Chapel Hill
:
University of North Carolina Press
,
2009
.Verna
,
Chantalle F.
Haiti and the Uses of America: Post-U.S. Occupation Promises
.
New Brunswick, NJ
:
Rutgers University Press
,
2017
.Part VI
Arthus
,
Wien Weibert
.
Duvalier à l’ombre de la guerre froide: Les dessous de la politique étrangère d’Haïti (1957–1963) [Duvalier in the shadow of the Cold War: The underside of Haitian foreign policy]
.
Port-au-Prince
:
L’Imprimeur
,
2014
.Glover
,
Kaiama L.
Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon
.
Liverpool
:
Liverpool University Press
,
2010
.Trouillot
,
Michel Rolph
.
State against Nation: The Origins and Legacies of Duvalierism
.
New York
:
Monthly Review Press
,
1990
.Vieux-Chauvet
,
Marie
.
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych
. Translated by
Réjouis
Rose-Marie
and
Vinokur
Val
.
New York
:
Modern Library
,
2010
.Part VII
Dupuy
,
Alex
.
The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti
.
Lanham, MD
:
Rowman & Littlefield
,
2007
.Farmer
,
Paul
.
AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame
.
Berkeley
:
University of California
,
2006
.Fatton
,
Robert
.
Haiti’s Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy
.
Boulder, CO
:
Lynne Rienner
,
2002
.Fleurimond
,
Wiener Kerns
.
Haïti de la Crise à l’occupation: Histoire d’un chaos, 2000–2004
.
Paris
:
L’Harmattan
,
2009
.James
,
Erica Caple
.
Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti
.
Berkeley
:
University of California Press
,
2010
.Richman
,
Karen E.
Migration and Vodou
.
Gainesville
:
University Press of Florida
,
2008
.Smith
,
Jenny M.
When the Hands Are Many: Community Organization and Social Change in Rural Haiti
.
Ithaca, NY
:
Cornell University Press
,
2001
.Part VIII
Buteau
,
Pierre
,
Éloi
Rodney St.
, and
Trouillot
Lyonel
, eds.
Refonder Haïti? [New foundations for Haiti?]
.
Montreal
:
Mémoire d’encrier
,
2011
.Dumas
,
Reginald
.
An Encounter with Haiti: Notes of a Special Advisor
.
Port of Spain, Trinidad
:
Medianet
,
2008
.Katz
,
Jonathan
.
The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
.
New York
:
Saint Martin’s
,
2013
.Ménard
,
Nadève
.
Écrits d’Haïti: Perspectives sur la littérature haïtienne contemporaine (1986–2006) [Writings of Haiti: Perspectives on contemporary Haitian literature]
.
Paris
:
Karthala
,
2011
.Polyné
,
Millery, ed
.
The Idea of Haiti: Rethinking Crisis and Development
.
Minneapolis
:
University of Minnesota Press
,
2013
.Schuller
,
Mark
, and
Morales
Pablo
.
Tectonic Shifts: Haiti since the Earthquake
.
Sterling, VA
:
Kumarian Press
,
2012
.Ulysse
,
Gina
.
Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-earthquake Chronicle
.
Middletown, CT
:
Wesleyan University Press
,
2015
.Films
Antonin
,
Arnold
.
.Asté
,
Patricia
dir.
Égalité for All: Human Rights and the Haitian Revolution
.
PBS Home Video
,
2009
.Bergan
,
Renée
, and
Schuller
Mark
dir.
Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy
.
Documentary Educational Resources
,
2009
.Hillel
,
Joseph
dir.
Ayiti Toma, in the Land of the Living
.
Fun Film Distribution
,
2012
.
