...Lyonel Trouillot A discussion of Alex Dupuy's The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti and Peter Hallward's Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment. Small Axe, Inc. 2009 Translated by Nadève Ménard BOOK...

...Peter Hallward Jean-Bertrand Aristide was re-elected president of Haiti in 2000, with a massive parliamentary majority. My book Damming the Flood (2007) tried to explain how and why his government overthrown, several years later, in an internationally-sponsored coup-d'état. Novelist Lyonel...

..., and Haiti and Peter Hallward's Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment . In discussing these works, I interrogate the extent to which traditional categories of liberal political analysis, democracy, national sovereignty, consensus, popular struggle, rule of law, as well...

...Nick Nesbitt The contemporaneous publication of Alex Dupuy's The Prophet and the Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Peter Hallward's Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment in 2007 marks a watershed in contemporary Haitian Studies. Together, these two critically engaged...

... Bongie (Islands and Exiles, 1998) and Peter Hallward (Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing between the Singular and the Specific, 2002), and argue that, contrary to their assumption that `late' Glissant has abandoned political commitment, the later texts explore the possibilities of new kinds of political...

... The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti and Peter Hallward’s Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment,1 Lyonel Trouillot, Nick Nesbitt, and Valerie Kaussen focus on the key differences between Hallward’s...

...-monde manifesto, and the utopian dimension of Glissant’s thinking, seem to call for vigilance. I will seek to address in particular the critique of Glissant offered by Peter Hallward and recently seconded, with some reservations, by Christopher Miller. For Hallward, Glissant’s theory of Tout-monde...

... to Martinique. Glissant returns us to the resonance of “Note 1” when he suggests that the first step in moving toward this view of translation is shifting our understanding of language: “On commence à comprendre que l'être d'une langue est un rhizome.” 26 As even the quote from Hallward makes clear...

... Smartt Bell’s biography of Toussaint Louverture, Alex Dupuy’s The Prophet and Power, and Peter Hallward’s Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment.33 I think attention to the problem of popular insurgency is one way both to link together our analysis of past and present...

... foreclosure; as such, it complicates Peter Hallward's and Chris Bongie's recent criticisms of the ideological and philosophical turn to autonomous “singularity” in contemporary postcolonialism. In Texaco , the “singular” experiences of Martinique's “wasted lives” prove to serve not as a retreat from universal...

... engagement is ever clear cut. Rather, their equivocal relationship to the political perhaps has interesting parallels with their ambivalent positions to, and refusals of, theory and le voyage. Furthermore, at a time when Peter Hallward and Bongie (in his later work) are extrapolating...

... between two fundamentally contrasting—indeed, perhaps incompatible—approaches to the story of the rise and downfall of Jean-Bertrand Aristide: Alex Dupuy’s The Prophet and Power: Jean- Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti, and Peter Hallward’s Damming...

...  |  123 in Relation,” engages with earlier analyses of such perceived shifts, respectively positive in Nick Nesbitt’s Voicing Memory (2003) and negative in Peter Hallward’s Absolutely Postcolo- nial (2001), in order to suggest that Glissant’s writings since the 1990s—after, for instance, Poétique...

... important, I believe. How, I would like to ask, might we think of Jamaica as a method? 3 Colin Wright, Badiou in Jamaica: The Politics of Conflict (Melbourne: re.press, 2013). Not of course that Badiou is a complete stranger to work on the Caribbean. See Peter Hallward, Damming the Flood: Haiti...

... and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti (2007). He is currently writing a book on Thomas Jefferson and the Haitian Revolution. Peter Hallward teaches at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middle- sex University, London. He is the author...

... of books and films with a specific focus on contemporary Haiti, recently supplemented with Peter Hallward’s Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment.31 This mere sample of material will be supplemented, over the next few years, with a vari- ety of other volumes ranging...

....” “UK to Compensate Kenya's Mau Mau Torture Victims,” Guardian , 6 June 2013. 10 “Blood Money: Pressure Grows for Compensation for the Caribbean Trade,” Economist , 5 October 2013. 11 Charles, “Aristide Pushes for Restitution.” 12 Peter Hallward, Damming the Flood: Haiti...

... for global emancipatory politics, a touchstone for critical philosophers such as Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, Susan Buck-Morss, Peter Hallward, and Hardt and Negri.” Nick Nesbitt, conference description for “Haiti and the Politics of the Universal,” Center for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen, Scotland...

... be to the struggles of Haitians as a whole. Aca- demics with political agendas as diverse as Lawrence Harrison and Peter Hallward, callow commentators such as the Center for Economic and Policy Research’s Mark Weisbrot and author Naomi Klein, and fulminating media demagogues such as Rush Limbaugh and Pat...

... Bongie, Friends and Enemies: The Scribal Politics of Post/Colonial Literature (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008), 330–31. Peter Hallward argues that Glissant's theoretical trajectory up to Poétique de la Relation “implies a sweeping revaluation of categories only thinly masked...