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Spirit Possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou Thought - An Intellectual History (Hardcover)
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Spirit Possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou Thought - An Intellectual History (Hardcover)
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This book recuperates the important history that Haitian thought
around Vodou possession has had in French critical theory. The
author takes the period of the 1930s and '40s, as the centerfold of
a more complex network of relations that places Haiti as one of the
pivots of a more expanded intellectual conversation around
"possession," which links anthropology, literature, psychoanalysis,
human rights, and visual arts in France, Haiti, and the United
States. Benedicty argues that Haiti as the anthropological other
serves as a kick-starter to an entire French-based theoretical
apparatus (Breton, Leiris, Bataille, de Certeau, Foucault, and
Butler), but once up and running, its role as catalyst is forgotten
and the multiple iterations of the anthropological other are cast
back into the net of Michel-Rolph Trouillot's "Savage slot." The
book offers the reader unfamiliar with Haiti a comprehensive
interdisciplinary study of twentieth and early twenty-first century
Haitian thought, including a detailed timeline of important moments
in the intellectual history that connects Haiti to France and the
United States. The first part of the book is about global
dispossessions in the first decades of the twentieth century; the
second part points to how the narratives of 'Haiti' are intimately
linked to a Franco-U.S.-American discursive space, constructed over
the course of the twentieth century, a discursive order that has
conflated the representation of 'Haiti' with an understanding of
Vodou primarily as an occult religion, and not as a philosophical
system. The third and fourth parts of the book examine how the
novels of Rene Depestre, Jean-Claude Fignole, and Kettly Mars have
revisited the notion of possession since the fall of the Duvalier
dictatorships.
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