The Idea of Haiti: Rethinking Crisis and Development

Contents

Acknowledgments ix Introduction. To Make Visible the Invisible Epistemological Order: Haiti, Singularity, and Newness xi Millery Polyné I. Revolisyon/Kriz (Revolution/Crisis) 1 Haiti, the Monstrous Anomaly 3 Nick Nesbitt 2 Rethinking the Haitian Crisis 27 Greg Beckett 3 Remembering Charlemagne Péralte and His Defense of Haiti’s Revolution 51 Yveline Alexis II. Moun/Demounization (Person/Dehumanization) 4 Haiti: Fantasies of Bare Life 69 Sibylle Fischer 5 The Violence of Executive Silence 87 Patrick Sylvain 6 Religion at the Epicenter: Agency and Affiliation in Léogâne after the Earthquake 111 Karen Richman Contents III. Èd (Aid) 7 The Alliance for Progress: A Case Study of Failure of International Commitments to Haiti 135 Wien Weibert Arthus 8 Urban Planning and the Rebuilding of Port-au-Prince 165 Harley F. Etienne 9 Cholera and the Camps: Reaping the Republic of NGOs 181 mark schuller 10 From Slave Revolt to a Blood Pact with Satan: The Evangelical Rewriting of Haitian History 203 Elizabeth McAlister 11 Twenty-First-Century Haiti—A New Normal? A Conversation with Four Scholars of Haiti 243 Alex Dupuy, Robert Fatton Jr ., Évelyne Trouillot, and Tatiana Wah Contributors 269 Index 273 ...