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The Haiti Exception - Anthropology and the Predicament of Narrative (Paperback)
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The Haiti Exception - Anthropology and the Predicament of Narrative (Paperback)
Series: Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 7
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This collection of essays considers the means and extent of Haiti's
'exceptionalization' - its perception in multiple arenas as
definitively unique with respect not only to the countries of the
North Atlantic, but also to the rest of the Americas. Painted as
repulsive and attractive, abject and resilient, singular and
exemplary, Haiti has long been framed discursively by an
extraordinary epistemological ambivalence. This nation has served
at once as cautionary tale, model for humanitarian aid and
development projects and point of origin for general theorising of
the so-called Third World. What to make of this dialectic of
exemplarity and alterity? How to pull apart this multivalent
narrative in order to examine its constituent parts?
Conscientiously gesturing to James Clifford's The Predicament of
Culture (1988), the contributors to The Haiti Exception work on the
edge of multiple disciplines, notably that of anthropology, to take
up these and other such questions from a variety of methodological
and disciplinary perspectives, including Africana Studies,
Anthrohistory, Art History, Black Studies, Caribbean Studies,
education, ethnology, Jewish Studies, Literary Studies, Performance
Studies and Urban Studies. As contributors revise and interrogate
their respective praxes, they accept the challenge of thinking
about the particular stakes of and motivations for their own
commitment to Haiti.
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