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Spirit of Haiti
Myriam J.A. Chancy
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This comprehensive collection of essays dedicated to the work of
filmmaker Raoul Peck is the first of its kind. The essays,
interview, and keynote addresses collected in Raoul Peck: Power,
Politics, and the Cinematic Imagination focus on the ways in which
power and politics traverse the work of Peck and are central to his
cinematic vision. At the heart of this project is the wish to
gather diverse interpretations of Raoul Peck's films in a single
volume. The essays included herein are written by scholars from
different disciplines and are placed alongside Peck's own
articulations around the nature of power and politics. Raoul Peck:
Power, Politics, and the Cinematic Imagination provides an
introduction to Peck's better-known films, interpretations of his
rarely seen and recently released early films, and original
analyses of his more recent films. It endeavors to explore the ways
in which the dual themes of power and politics inform the work of
Peck by taking a multidisciplinary approach to contextualizing his
filmography. It culls contributions from scholars who write from a
wide range of disciplines including history, film studies, literary
studies, postcolonial studies, French and Francophone studies and
African studies. The result is a volume that offers divergent
perspectives and frames of expertise by which to understand Peck's
oeuvre that continues to expand and deepen.
Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical
legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the
cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas. This book
seeks to emphasize connections rather than divisions among
different migratory ethnic communities via a reconfiguration of
borders and ethnic identities. This collection of essays has three
major goals: first, to foreground shared themes and strategies in
the literary productions of women of Africana and Latina/o descent;
second, to highlight the importance of the arts for community
activism within shared diasporic spaces; and third, to illustrate
the potential of artistic and activist collaborations among women
from both groups across disciplinary, political, national, and
ethnic divides. Dialogues across Diasporas is divided into three
sections. The first section provides a theoretical overview of
diasporic migrations, politics, and identities. It argues that
diverse diasporas can unite around shared political and cultural
experiences such as converting contested spaces into communities
and resisting rhetorics of exclusion. The second section
demonstrates the diverse ways in which migratory women and
daughters of the diaspora frame their histories, lived experiences,
and different forms of knowledge via poetry, short stories,
academic essays, and other art forms. The third section focuses on
women's activism, suggesting opportunities for collaboration among
and between diverse diasporic communities.
Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical
legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the
cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas. This book
seeks to emphasize connections rather than divisions among
different migratory ethnic communities via a reconfiguration of
borders and ethnic identities. This collection of essays has three
major goals: first, to foreground shared themes and strategies in
the literary productions of women of Africana and Latina/o descent;
second, to highlight the importance of the arts for community
activism within shared diasporic spaces; and third, to illustrate
the potential of artistic and activist collaborations among women
from both groups across disciplinary, political, national, and
ethnic divides. Dialogues across Diasporas is divided into three
sections. The first section provides a theoretical overview of
diasporic migrations, politics, and identities. It argues that
diverse diasporas can unite around shared political and cultural
experiences such as converting contested spaces into communities
and resisting rhetorics of exclusion. The second section
demonstrates the diverse ways in which migratory women and
daughters of the diaspora frame their histories, lived experiences,
and different forms of knowledge via poetry, short stories,
academic essays, and other art forms. The third section focuses on
women s activism, suggesting opportunities for collaboration among
and between diverse diasporic communities."
This challenging, multi-layered story is told from a womanist
perspective through a network of narrative voices encompassing two
generations of Haitians, tied together both by blood relations and
bloodshed. In addition to the characters' personal struggles with
the harsh realities of postcolonial Haiti, the violent history of
the last six centuries of the country, from the brutal years of
colonialism and slavery to the chaotic aftermath of the fall of the
Baby Doc regime, is also explored. The rhythm of the prose echoes
Haitian Creole as this dramatic novel unfolds.
Offering a richly nuanced portrayal placing Haiti in a global
context as a place of ethnic and cultural complexity, this novel
explores the role of spirituality in Caribbean life and culture.
Told through multiple voices in a nonlinear fashion, the narrative
unfolds through the perspectives of a Haitian-Syrian merchant,
Ruth, who recounts her young adulthood and final days as she
intuits her imminent death; Catherine, a professional pianist
living in Paris who travels home to Haiti upon hearing of her Aunt
Ruth's murder; Rose, Catherine's mother, an empath, who is believed
to have committed suicide in Canadian exile in reaction to the
worst years of the Duvalier regime; Romulus, a once famous Konpa
singer and an addict, who, released by rebels from a Port-au-Prince
jail searches for his redemption; and Elsie, an Irish,
working-class seer who emigrates to Haiti in 1847 in search of a
new mystic who will guide them all. Traversing the terrains of
Port-au-Prince middle-class life, working-class French Canada,
expatriate Paris, the peat bogs of famine stricken Ireland, and
tracing lives that cross boundaries of time and place, this is a
deeply absorbing portrayal of a fragmented community whose deepest
connections lie in a shared sense of spirituality.
In Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy engages readers in an
interpretive journey. She lays out a radical new process that
invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as
legible within the context of African diasporic historical and
cultural debates. By invoking a transnational African/diasporic
lens and negotiating it through a lakou or "yard space," we can see
such identities transfigured, recognized, and exchanged. Chancy
demonstrates how the process can examine the salient features of
texts and art that underscore African/diasporic sensibilities and
render them legible. What emerges is a potential for richer
readings of African diasporic works that also ruptures the
Manichean binary dynamics that have dominated previous
interpretations of the material. The result: an enriching
interpretive mode focused on the transnational connections between
subjects of African descent as the central pole for reader
investigation.A bold challenge to established scholarship,
Autochthonomies ranges from Africa to Europe and the Americas to
provide powerful new tools for charting the transnational
interactions between African cultural producers and sites.
In Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy engages readers in an
interpretive journey. She lays out a radical new process that
invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as
legible within the context of African diasporic historical and
cultural debates. By invoking a transnational African/diasporic
lens and negotiating it through a lakou or "yard space," we can see
such identities transfigured, recognized, and exchanged. Chancy
demonstrates how the process can examine the salient features of
texts and art that underscore African/diasporic sensibilities and
render them legible. What emerges is a potential for richer
readings of African diasporic works that also ruptures the
Manichean binary dynamics that have dominated previous
interpretations of the material. The result: an enriching
interpretive mode focused on the transnational connections between
subjects of African descent as the central pole for reader
investigation.A bold challenge to established scholarship,
Autochthonomies ranges from Africa to Europe and the Americas to
provide powerful new tools for charting the transnational
interactions between African cultural producers and sites.
This collection ponders the personal and political implications for
Haitians at home and abroad resulting from the devastating 2010
earthquake. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in
January 2010 was a debilitating event that followed decades of
political, social, and financial issues. Leaving over 250,000
people dead, 300,000 injured, and 1.5 million people homeless, the
earthquake has had lasting repercussions on a struggling nation. As
the post-earthquake political situation unfolded, Myriam Chancy
worked to illuminate on-the-ground concerns, from the vulnerable
position of Haitian women to the failures of international aid.
Originally presented at invited campus talks, published as columns
for a newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago, and circulated in other
ways, her essays and creative responses preserve the reactions and
urgencies of the years following the disaster. In Harvesting Haiti,
Chancy examines the structures that have resulted in Haiti's
post-earthquake conditions and reflects at key points after the
earthquake on its effects on vulnerable communities. Her essays
make clear the importance of sustaining and supporting the dignity
of Haitian lives and of creating a better, contextualized
understanding of the issues that mark Haitians’ historical and
present realities, from gender parity to the vexed relationship
between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
"A riveting, insightful personal narrative, a confessional that is
very thoroughly researched. It will open windows on the rich,
complex culture of Haiti, both historical and contemporary." -
Moira Ferguson, James E. Ryan Chair in English and Women's
Literature, University of Nebraska "A very insightful and
brilliantly executed reading of novels by Haitian women." - Selwyn
Cudjoe, Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas,
Wellesley College "A major new work in Caribbean studies." - Gay
Wilentz, East Carolina University Colonized and coerced, raped and
silenced - this has been the position of Haitian women within their
own society, as well as how they have been seen by foreign
occupiers. Romanticized symbols of nationhood, they have served,
however unwillingly, as a politicized site of contestation between
opposing forces. In this first book-length study in English devoted
exclusively to Haitian women's literature, Myriam Chancy finds that
Haitian women have their own history, traditions, and stories to
tell, tales that they are unwilling to suppress or subordinate to
narratives of national autonomy. Issues of race, class, color,
caste, nationality, and sexuality are all central to their fiction
- as is an urgent sense of the historical place of women between
the two U.S. occupations of the country. Their novels interrogate
women's social and political stances in Haiti from an explicitly
female point of view, forcefully responding to overt sexual and
political violence within the nation's ambivalent political
climate. Through daring and sensitive readings, simultaneously
historical, fictional, and autobiographical, Chancy explores this
literature, seeking to uncover answers to the current crisis facing
these women today, both within their country and in exile. The
writers surveyed include Anne-christine d'Adesky, Ghislaine
Charlier, Marie Chauvet, Jan J. Dominique, Nadine Magloire, and
Edwidge Danticat. Myriam J. A. Chancy is a Haitian scholar and
writer born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in Canada. She is
an assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
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