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Thinking in Public
Thinking in Public provides a probing and provocative meditation on the intellectual life and legacy of Jacques Roumain. As a work of intellectual history, the book investigates the intersections of religious ideas, secular humanism, and development within the framework of Roumain's public intellectualism and cultural criticism embodied in his prolific writings. The book provides a reconceptualization of Roumain's intellectual itineraries against the backdrop of two public spheres: a national public sphere (Haiti) and a transnational public sphere (the global world). Second, it remaps and reframes Roumain's intellectual circuits and his critical engagements within a wide range of intellectua...
Killing the Elites
In the summer and fall of 1964, a massacre took place in the small town of Jérémie, Haiti. After an ill-fated uprising, the brutal regime of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier ordered reprisals against the town that some of the insurgents were allegedly from. Entire families—all from the town’s upper class—were slaughtered. Through a rich historical ethnography of the massacre, Jean-Philippe Belleau offers a new account of the workings of the Duvalier regime and an innovative analysis of anti-elite violence. Killing the Elites meticulously reconstructs the various phases of the massacre, identifying the victims and perpetrators, tracing the social ties that linked them, and examining ...
Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti
In this path-breaking book, Jeb Sprague investigates the dangerous world of right-wing paramilitarism in Haiti and its role in undermining the democratic aspirations of the Haitian people. Sprague focuses on the period beginning in 1990 with the rise of Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the right-wing movements that succeeded in driving him from power. Over the ensuing two decades, paramilitary violence was largely directed against the poor and supporters of Aristide’s Lavalas movement, taking the lives of thousands of Haitians. Sprague seeks to understand how this occurred, and traces connections between paramilitaries and their elite financial ...
The Transatlantic Zombie
Our most modern monster and perhaps our most American, the zombie that is so prevalent in popular culture today has its roots in African soul capture mythologies. The Transatlantic Zombie provides a more complete history of the zombie than has ever been told, explaining how the myth’s migration to the New World was facilitated by the transatlantic slave trade, and reveals the real-world import of storytelling, reminding us of the power of myths and mythmaking, and the high stakes of appropriation and homage. Beginning with an account of a probable ancestor of the zombie found in the Kongolese and Angolan regions of seventeenth-century Africa and ending with a description of the way, in con...
Out To Defend Ourselves
This first critical history of a street gang in a Canadian city is a result of a four-year collaboration between a university professor (Ted Rutland) and the leader of les Bélangers (Maxime Aurélien). Out to Defend Ourselves tells the story of Montreal’s first Haitian street gang, les Bélangers. It traces how the gang emerged from a group of Haitian friends, the children of migrants from Haiti in the 1970s. It documents the forms of racial violence they experienced and their battles against them. It also documents the everyday lives of the gang members, the petty crime some members engaged in to make ends meet, and how the police actions against the gang changed its nature and function – making it, finally, a more criminally oriented and violent formation. It is a story about a gang, but it is also a story of young Haitians making their lives in 1970s and 80s Montreal and a story about Montreal in a period of great change.
Essays on Boredom and Modernity
The past thirty years saw a growing academic interest in the phenomenon of boredom. If initially the analyses were mostly a-historical, now the historicity of boredom is widely recognised, though often it is taken as evidence of its permanence as a constant "quality" of the human condition, expression of a metaphysical malady inherent to the fact of being human. New trends in the literature focus on the peculiar relationship between boredom and modernity and attempt to embrace the new social, cultural and political factors which provoked the epochal change of modernity and relate them to a change in the parameters of human experience and the crisis of subjectivity. The very changes that char...
L'anneau D'argent
— Mon chéri, tu me donnes l’impression, à cause de ta situation sociale, d’avoir peur de prendre possession de ce que je t’offre ... ce qui t’appartient ... alors que d’autres s’en arrogent le droit parce qu’ils portent le nom de famille qu’il faut. Les sentiments qui existent entre nous éliminent ces barrières ... même si c’est seulement entre nous ... ne laissant de place pour des réflexions aussi ... obscures ... aussi désobligeantes. Nul ne sait ce que l’avenir nous réserve, mais je doute fort que toi et moi utiliserons le terme ... dommage ... pour ... Écoute, chéri ... J’ai passé deux ans sans affection ... Y avait pas mal de tentation à Paris, mais ...
Un Pays Oublié
Ainsi que lexige la fatalit historique, dinnombrables compatriotes vivent loin de leur pays, de leurs traditions, de leur hritage culturel ... Ce qui tissait jadis le quotidien de leur existence, voire le rconfort de leur lieu de naissance la quitude de leur enfance la possibilit dun futur familier sest transform en une pile de regrets et sest ml avec les tentations de la terre daccueil pour se confondre lentement mais invitablement dans les mandres de leur mmoire. Les particularits de la vie en socit hatienne seffacent graduellement. Et floues deviennent ces distinctions vcues flous les mets dautrefois floues les gargotes disparues floue la jeunesse lcole flou le madigra dantan flous les instants romantiques L, finalement, au carrefour de la petite histoire, des souvenirs et des vains espoirs sinstalle pour daucuns un vide frquemment dmoralisant Et bien que la nostalgie ne remplace pas la terre natale, en manire de compensation Un pays oubli offre aux lecteurs ... une gerbe de rminiscences, une vocation de penses communes qui, peut-tre, hantant leurs aujourdhuis, errent en quelques coins brumeux de leur esprit ...
Ecrire en pays assiégé
Jacques Stephen Alexis, Jacques Roumain, René Depestre, Marie Chauvet, Frankétienne, J. J. Dominique, Jean Métellus, Dany Laferrière, Yanick Lahens, Lyonel Trouillot et Edwidge Danticat sont quelques-uns des écrivains haïtiens dont l'écriture est marquée par le contexte politique d'Haïti. Les régimes dictatoriaux ont, en effet, affecté l'espace créatif, imposant un certain nombre de contraintes auxquelles ces écrivains, chacun à leur manière, ont ingénieusement riposté et réagi. Ce recueil d'essais critiques et d'entretiens tente d'illustrer et d'analyser comment les oeuvres romanesques, poétiques et théâtrales s'accommodent du « pays assiégé » et déploient des stra...
