...Marlene L. Daut Given the increasingly fractured interactions between Haiti and the United States in the twentieth century that recently culminated in what one critic has called the “alleged kidnapping of Aristide,” it would be more than tempting to conclude that Haitians have always been...

... 2015 Dominican Republic Haiti sexual violence genealogy nationalist discourses Works Cited “2011 National Household Survey: Data Tables.” Statistics Canada . Web. 24 July 2013 . Alexis Jacques Stéphen . L'espace d'un cillement . Paris : Gallimard , 1959 . Print...

... the Hispanophone Caribbean or Martinique’s particular postcoloniality as an overseas department of France in comparison to the Anglophone Caribbean. Haiti looms large here, and some treatment of the representation of space and identity in its much longer postcolonial context also would have been useful...

... point in the sentences directly preceding the one I have taken as an epi- graph: “¿Cuál sería entonces la isla que se repite: Jamaica, Aruba, Puerto Rico, Guadalupe, Miami, Haiti, Recife? Ciertamente, ninguna de las que conocemos” (Isla 17; “Which one, then, would be the repeating island, Jamaica...

.... In a similar fashion, such Haitian Francophone writers as Emile Ollivier, Marie-Célie Agnant, and Dany Laferrière play an important role in defi ning a bipolar diasporic identity oscillating between Haiti and Montreal. This interest in a broader America fi nds little echo in the United States, although...

... are produced largely in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and various U.S. cities: in Spanish-speaking Philadelphia and New York during the 1820s; in Cuba and Haiti during the 1830s; in New Orleans, Mexico, Haiti, and, yes, New England during the 1840s...

..., Central America, the Caribbean, and various U.S. cities: in Spanish-speaking Philadelphia and New York during the 1820s; in Cuba and Haiti during the 1830s; in New Orleans, Mexico, Haiti, and, yes, New England during the 1840s and 1850s. While all...

... am the Silent One, MEERUT Saying nothing, CHAPEI Knowing no words to write, HAITI Feeling only the bullets FORD And the hunger KOREA And the stench of gas...

... in Postwar German Literature . Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1996 . Uerlings, Herbert. Poetiken der Interkulturalität: Haiti bei Kleist, Seghers, Müller, Buch und Fichte . Tübingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 1997 . West, Alan. Tropics of History: Cuba Imagined . Westport: Bergin and Garvey, 1997 . Zamora...

...; Ecuador and Paraguay in 1991 and 1992; Bolivia and El Salvador in 1993 and 1994; Panama in 1996; Cuba, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic in 1997; and Nicaragua in 2000. Brazil and Haiti were the only early American signatories. Haiti signed in 1886, although it renounced the Convention in 1943...

... material nature” (54). Buck-Morss’s main point is that Hegel’s idea of modernity probably evolved from Haiti’s revolution—that the revolution represented an influx of thought about the other that produced European modernity. From this notion, she attempts to salvage the idea of universal history, arguing...

... if not the shadow of St. Domingue in the former and Haiti in the latter, given the substantial Haitian immigration into French Canada. Haiti’s relative absence in his text allows him to recount his counter-narrative more smoothly, but, as he admits, New Orleans is part of the South and is profoundly connected...

... if not the shadow of St. Domingue in the former and Haiti in the latter, given the substantial Haitian immigration into French Canada. Haiti’s relative absence in his text allows him to recount his counter-narrative more smoothly, but, as he admits, New Orleans is part of the South and is profoundly connected...

... of these locations in the Americas gets short shrift. For instance, what does New Orleans have in common with Quebec if not the shadow of St. Domingue in the former and Haiti in the latter, given the substantial Haitian immigration into French Canada. Haiti’s relative absence in his text allows him to recount...

... of these locations in the Americas gets short shrift. For instance, what does New Orleans have in common with Quebec if not the shadow of St. Domingue in the former and Haiti in the latter, given the substantial Haitian immigration into French Canada. Haiti’s relative absence in his text allows him to recount...

... of archipelagic opening or “île non-clôture” (“non-closure island”) connected to the divided poverty of Guadeloupe and the racial pride of “Haïti où la négritude, / se mit debout pour la première fois et dit qu’elle croyait à son humanité” ( Cahier 193 ; “Haiti where negritude rose for the first time and stated...

..., “Francophone Studies” upon the American Départe- ments d’Outre-Mer and (bitter historical irony) Haiti, and “Latin American Studies” upon the Hispanophone Caribbean, which in any case tends to emphasize its island rather than mainland spaces. Arguably, a focus on the cultural commonali- ties...

...—or—in the extreme—by all others , that a human being is really human, for himself as well as for others” ( 9 ; emphasis mine). 11 See Sorentino’s analysis of Susan Buck-Morss’s Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History in “The Idea of Slavery: Abstraction, Analogy, and Anti-Blackness.” Works Cited...

... framework, and its attractiveness to volunteers depends on a problematic commodification of poverty and legitimization of suffering: Just two of us had volunteered to come here. Mayotte is still part of France and no one was interested in that. The others wanted to go to Haiti, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh...

..., Haiti and the United States as part of the same terri- tory, for example, immediately brings an arresting challenge to bear on the idea of America, almost to a point of silence, even among those otherwise engaged in studying it. At that dramatic moment it becomes crucial to remember...