The Haiti exception : anthropology and the predicament of narrative
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The Haiti exception : anthropology and the predicament of narrative
（Francophone postcolonial studies : the annual publication of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies, new ser.,
Liverpool University Press, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, Jhon Picard Byron, Kaiama L. Glover and Mark Schuller, 'Editors' Introduction'
I. Tracing Intellectual Histories
Jhon Picard Byron, 'Transforming Ethnology: Understanding the Stakes and Challenges of Price-Mars in the Development of Anthropology in Haiti'
Mark Schuller, 'The Intellectual Uses of Haiti'
Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, 'On "being Jewish", on "studying Haiti"... Herskovits, Metraux, Race, and Human Rights'
Laurent Dubois, 'Haiti, Gender and Anthrohistory: A Mintzian Journey'
II. Interrogating the Enquiring Self
Kaiama L. Glover, '"Written with Love": Intimacy and Relation in Katherine Dunham's Island Possessed'
Barbara Browning, 'Dance, Haiti and Lariam Dreams'
Carlo A. Celius, '"Haitian Art" and Primitivism: Effects, Uses and Beyond'
III. On Nation-Building: Histories, Theories, Praxes
Deborah Thomas, 'Haiti, Politics and Sovereign (Mis)recognitions'
Valerie Kaussen, 'Haitian Culture in the Informational Economics of Humanitarian Aid'
Michele Duvivier Pierre-Louis, 'Thinking About the City - At Last!'
Claudine Michel, 'Epilogue: Kalfou Danje: Situating Haitian Studies, and My Own Journey Within It'
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