...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...

...Dixa Ramírez In this article, I argue that two novels by writers from Hispaniola rescript the long-term idealization of heterosexual coupling in both colonial and nationalist narratives from the Caribbean and Latin America. Mère-Solitude (1983) by Haitian-Canadian Émile Ollivier and El tiempo del...

... of sexual tor- ture in the Algerian civil war. In the sixth chapter, Hron focuses on the destructive “zero- ism” of self-induced victimization through anorexia and fake narratives of suffering by white impostors. In two chapters Hron discusses the cultural rhetoric of suffering in Haitian immi...

... of sexual tor- ture in the Algerian civil war. In the sixth chapter, Hron focuses on the destructive “zero- ism” of self-induced victimization through anorexia and fake narratives of suffering by white impostors. In two chapters Hron discusses the cultural rhetoric of suffering in Haitian immi...

... of sexual tor- ture in the Algerian civil war. In the sixth chapter, Hron focuses on the destructive “zero- ism” of self-induced victimization through anorexia and fake narratives of suffering by white impostors. In two chapters Hron discusses the cultural rhetoric of suffering in Haitian immi...

.... 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...

... 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...

... engagement of Faubert’s play offers a transcultural perspective that enables a recon- sideration of Stowe’s influence(s) in/on the Caribbean, as well as a new appreciation of the Haitian writer’s work. An epilogue takes up In the Name of Salomé, a novel written in 2000...

... engagement of Faubert’s play offers a transcultural perspective that enables a recon- sideration of Stowe’s influence(s) in/on the Caribbean, as well as a new appreciation of the Haitian writer’s work. An epilogue takes up In the Name of Salomé, a novel written in 2000...

... interpreters has any more interest in inter- rogating his Haitian history than he does. Yet Sutpen, unlike Absalom’s other nar- rators, represents the figure or index that compels what examination there is of the Southern-imperialism relation, who in fact makes its unveiling —or at least the unveiling...

... and the Enlight- enment, for example, without taking into consideration their “darker sides” as manifested in the Caribbean: the destruction of the Indies as recounted by Barto- lomé de Las Casas, slavery and its legitimating ideologies, and the Haitian Revolu- tion as a decisive refutation of various Great...

...” also emphasizes the inter-American compo- sition of many of these localities, in which people from all parts of the Americas converge. The English-speaking Barbadian in Toronto, the Francophone Haitian I am very grateful to Lois Parkinson Zamora and Silvia Spitta for their helpful comments...

... a homology—between the Haitian Revolution and the Cuban Revolution. In making this argument, he turns his attention to struggles in Africa on behalf of national independence, claiming that these movements too were prefigured by the efforts of West Indian thinkers to supplant Europe with Africa as an object...

... himself, be recognizing actual Haitian slaves’ threatening politicality and historicity—this logic would in the same moment require other slaves , as it were, blacker slaves, whose “nonpoliticality” would relegate their activities to an equivalent register of dereliction, or as I suggest above...

.... As with the aforementioned exiled Haitian authors, this may be due to the difficulty of “translating” such suffering into literary form ( Cooreman 36 ), as well as the need for new refugees to gain the fluency required to write in the language of the nation of settlement ( Terrell Cargill 1 ). As Alice Pung puts...

... of a border over a single people. Additionally, the presumption of familiarity with the Mediterranean context also makes clear that the intended audience of the work is metropolitan French. It means that the Mauritian, Haitian, or New Caledonian francophone reader learning about Comoran clandestine crossings...

... commercially successful novels of development that involve flight from Dominican, Antiguan, and Haitian communities, respec- tively. While these texts often present a critical vision of American culture, they also retain a geo- graphical focus on the developed world. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 124...