Project MUSE®: Journal of Haitian Studies - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Journal of Haitian Studies.daily12026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 19 (2013) through current issueLatest Articles: Journal of Haitian StudiesTWOProject MUSE®Journal of Haitian Studies2333-73111090-3488Latest articles in Journal of Haitian Studies. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Dekonstriksyon mounite a nan tè melanje yo
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987607
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Lide sou idantite, sou ras, sou nasyonalite, vin sèvi pretèks pou jistifye eksplwatasyon yon elit politik ak ekonomik nan República Dominicana ak envestisè mond oksidantal la sou do peyizan ayisyen yo, avèk yon konplisite woule m de bò kòm karakteristik Leta santral ayisyen an nan sa ki gen pou wè ak rapò li tanmen ak Leta santral dominiken an depi 1937. Li pa yon sekrè pou pyès moun ki gen abitib ale nan República Dominicana : peyizan ayisyen yo konstitiye gwoup moun ki pi defavorize nan yerachi sosyal sosyete dominiken an, malgre plis pase 5 % nan popilasyon an se imigre ayisyen yo ye—san konte Dominiken ki gen orijin ayisyen yo (OIM, s.d.).Nan rechèch sa, mwen envite konsèp tè melanje yo pou m konprann espas
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallDekonstriksyon mounite a nan tè melanje yo2026-04-14text/htmlen-USDekonstriksyon mounite a nan tè melanje yo2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®925742026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Resurrecting the Figure of the Slave in Union and Independence Struggles: The Supposed Origins of Haitian Migration to Guadeloupe (1970s)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987608
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Most articles (press or academic) claim that the history of the Haitian presence in Guadeloupe dates back to 1975. In February of that year, a strike in the sugar cane sector jeopardized the harvest, and negotiations between employers and unions were at a standstill. One dwelling, Grosse-Montagne, located in the commune of Le Lamentin, concentrated the tension between the various actors, sparking the curiosity of local and national media and the concerns of the prefecture.1 And one figure, Father Chérubin Céleste, took up the defense of the workers, denouncing what he saw as an unfair maneuver that was destabilizing the balance of power: the bosses had brought in Haitian workers to ensure the completion of the cane
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallResurrecting the Figure of the Slave in Union and Independence Struggles: The Supposed Origins of Haitian Migration to Guadeloupe (1970s)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USResurrecting the Figure of the Slave in Union and Independence Struggles: The Supposed Origins of Haitian Migration to Guadeloupe (1970s)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®1180172026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Archival Fictions: René Depestre's Popa Singer
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987609
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In February 2016, the French publishing house Éditions Zulma released Popa Singer, a slim autofictional novel by the renowned Haitian writer, intellectual, and former socialist militant René Depestre. It was Depestre's fifth work of prose fiction, his third novel. He was just a few months short of his ninetieth birthday.Not long after the book's publication, in the summer of 2017, I went to visit Depestre at his home in the Aude region of southern France. I had gone there to interview him as part of my research for an intellectual biography titled "For the Love of Revolution | René Depestre and the Poetics of a Radical Life."1 Toward the end of our wide-ranging and fascinating conversation that summer, one of many
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallArchival Fictions: René Depestre's Popa Singer2026-04-14text/htmlen-USArchival Fictions: René Depestre's Popa Singer2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®1472922026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Fictions d'archives: Popa Singer de René Depestre
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987610
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En février 2016, la maison d'édition française Zulma a publié Popa Singer, un petit roman autofictionnel du célèbre écrivain, intellectuel et ancien militant socialiste haïtien René Depestre. Il s'agissait de son cinquième ouvrage en prose, de son troisième roman. Il approchait alors de son quatre-vingt-dixième anniversaire.Peu de temps après la publication du roman, à l'été 2017, je me suis rendue chez Depestre, dans la région de l'Aude, dans le sud de la France. J'y étais allée pour l'interviewer dans le cadre de mes recherches pour une biographie intellectuelle intitulée « For the Love of Revolution | René Depestre and the Poetics of a Radical Life ».1 Vers la fin de notre conversation vaste et
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallFictions d'archives: Popa Singer de René Depestre2026-04-14text/htmlen-USFictions d'archives: Popa Singer de René Depestre2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®1404572026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14The Prophetic Specter of "Non-histoire" in Édouard Glissant's Monsieur Toussaint and Fabienne Pasquet's La Deuxième mort de Toussaint Louverture
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987611
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La coupure de la Traite, puis de l'expérience servile, introduit entre croyance et conscience un hiatus que nous n'avons pas fini de combler. L'absence de représentation, d'écho, de signalisation fait que ce néant bée toujours sous nos pieds.In 1961, Édouard Glissant published his only full-length stand-alone play, Monsieur Toussaint.1 Based on the life of Haitian Revolutionary general Toussaint Louverture, the play explores Louverture's tumultuous life—including the at times questionable decisions he made, his complicated identity, and the ghosts that haunted him inside an icy prison cell at the Fort de Joux. Forty years after the release of Monsieur Toussaint, Haitian Swiss author Fabienne Pasquet published her
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallThe Prophetic Specter of "Non-histoire" in Édouard Glissant's Monsieur Toussaint and Fabienne Pasquet's La Deuxième mort de Toussaint Louverture2026-04-14text/htmlen-USThe Prophetic Specter of "Non-histoire" in Édouard Glissant's Monsieur Toussaint and Fabienne Pasquet's La Deuxième mort de Toussaint Louverture2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®1229282026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Frankétienne's Magical Realism
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987612
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Frankétienne's Les Affres d'un défi (1979)1 is a French rewriting2 of his Kreyòl-language novel Dézafi (1975). Both texts narrate the same stories, with characters and settings that fully correspond. Connecting these works to the aesthetic of magical realism may seem challenging for two main reasons. On one hand, in the early 1960s, the author had co-founded the literary movement known as spiralism alongside Jean-Claude Fignolé and René Philoctète. This aesthetic strongly shaped Frankétienne's artwork and literature, so it is no surprise that many scholars have categorized Dézafi and Les Affres as works of spiralism rather than magical realism.3 Furthermore, without denying their ties to the spiralist movement
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallFrankétienne's Magical Realism2026-04-14text/htmlen-USFrankétienne's Magical Realism2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®1097962026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Untelling/Retelling Black Lives: A Reflection on Sara Johnson's Methodology in Encyclopédie Noire
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987613
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Sara Johnson introduced me to Amenaïde several years ago at an academic conference. Speaking before a spellbound audience, Johnson shared Amenaïde's captivating life story and its significance to the history of slavery in the Atlantic World. Born in 1778, Amenaïde was something of a ghost, both literally and figuratively—a specter haunting our consciousness, whose complexity we could not fully grasp. And about whom we knew so little. Even so, she glimmered in our collective minds as Johnson wove together tiny fragments from her life. By the end, I felt that I had actually come to know Amenaïde. She was, Johnson told us, a mixed-race woman born to a free biracial mother and an "unknown" father who was later revealed
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallUntelling/Retelling Black Lives: A Reflection on Sara Johnson's Methodology in Encyclopédie Noire2026-04-14text/htmlen-USUntelling/Retelling Black Lives: A Reflection on Sara Johnson's Methodology in Encyclopédie Noire2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®428352026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14L'Utilité de cette espèce de science"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987614
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In her necessarily unsettling discussion of Louis Narcisse Baudry des Lozières's Dictionnaire ou vocabulaire Congo, within her meticulous study of Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry's archive, Sara E. Johnson quotes Baudry's explanation of why he chose to study the Kikongo language at length:
Being a planter myself, I understood the utility of this type of science. … I tried to learn only enough to understand my newly arrived slaves and to make myself understood. (Étant planteur moi-même, j'ai senti l'utilité de cette espèce de science. … Je n'a cherché qu'à en savoir assez pour entendre mes esclaves bossals et en être entendu.)
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Johnson rightly reminds us in her chapter on Baudry's Vocabulaire, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallL'Utilité de cette espèce de science"2026-04-14text/htmlen-USL'Utilité de cette espèce de science"2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®199302026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Decentering the Author, Recovering Voices: From Moreau's Encyclopédie to Périès's Histoire
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987615
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It is an honor to respond to Sara Johnson's book Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World, a work already recognized by multiple awards, notable in historiography, and audacious in its interdisciplinary approach, which bridges history, literature, linguistics, and the visual arts. The book offers multiple methodological propositions that defy conventional monographic standards, instead enabling fragmentary, chapter-by-chapter reading. It adopts an encyclopedic structure—a genre exemplified by Médéric-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Méry—not as a mere stylistic choice but as part of the critical method Johnson encourages for engaging colonial sources.Her book and its approach resonate
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallDecentering the Author, Recovering Voices: From Moreau's Encyclopédie to Périès's Histoire2026-04-14text/htmlen-USDecentering the Author, Recovering Voices: From Moreau's Encyclopédie to Périès's Histoire2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®116902026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Disassemblage/Reassemblage and the Archival Problem
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987616
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Sara Johnson's startlingly original Encyclopédie Noire is a communal biography of a celebrated "unreliable center" (4) surrounded and supported by apparently ghostly figures. Johnson wields a variety of instruments as she dissects her putative subject, Moreau de Saint-Méry, a self-proclaimed savant of a trove of global knowledge who lived predominantly in Saint-Domingue and Paris at the end of the eighteenth century. As she notes, her study "showcases how Moreau's capacity to create and institutionalize knowledge—including knowledge about himself as a man who believed in his own biographical worthiness—was dependent upon stolen labor" (5). But her subject is not simply this wretched man, whose work should never
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallDisassemblage/Reassemblage and the Archival Problem2026-04-14text/htmlen-USDisassemblage/Reassemblage and the Archival Problem2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®315852026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Wonder as Creative Act: Methodological Approaches in Encyclopédie Noire
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987617
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It is hard to overstate the influence that Médéric Moreau de Saint-Méry has had on scholarship about colonial Saint-Domingue. He authored detailed accounts of the racial and class-based hierarchies of the colony; about religious practices, including Vodou; about the names of maroon leaders operating on the island and the fear local slaveholders felt about these communities. Much of what is known about the culinary and sumptuary riches of the markets in Cap-Français (Cap-Haïtien) and the theater culture of the colony was contained in his descriptions. He also published texts about Spanish Santo Domingo, the early United States, and China, and left copious notes about Italy, other Caribbean islands, and the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallWonder as Creative Act: Methodological Approaches in Encyclopédie Noire2026-04-14text/htmlen-USWonder as Creative Act: Methodological Approaches in Encyclopédie Noire2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®656592026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14BLUME Haiti: Forging a Solid Bond with Potential Musicians through Cello
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987618
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Could you tell us about your trajectory to become a professor of cello at Lawrence University?I came to the cello rather late, taking lessons starting in the eighth grade, but thanks to an inspiring teacher, I became a fanatic about the instrument. I interrupted my university studies to spend almost four years in Vienna, Austria (the cradle of classical period music and home to Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, to name just a few), where I had the extraordinary opportunity to be a substitute player with all of the orchestras that, at that time, allowed women in their ranks (!).How long have you been playing and teaching this instrument? Tell us about the significant impact it has had on your life.I have
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallBLUME Haiti: Forging a Solid Bond with Potential Musicians through Cello2026-04-14text/htmlen-USBLUME Haiti: Forging a Solid Bond with Potential Musicians through Cello2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®143172026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14A Note from the Book Review Editors
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987619
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This past October 2025, the Haitian Studies Association held its conference with the theme "1825 | 2025: Restitisyon ak Reparasyon." Honoring this conversation, we have brought together reviews of books and films that speak to the double debt, its historical contexts, and its longue durée implications and consequences for Haitian life and intellectualisms.We also honor that Yanick Lahens's novel Passagères de nuit won the 2025 Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française and was nominated for the Prix Goncourt 2025.This past year many of the cogent thinkers of Haitian literary and philosophical thought passed to the other side. Danielle Legros Georges (February 14, 1964, Gonaïves – February 11, 2025, Boston)
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallA Note from the Book Review Editors2026-04-14text/htmlen-USA Note from the Book Review Editors2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®46232026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Three Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti-Congo Story by Danielle Legros Georges (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987620
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Three Leaves, Three Roots (2025) is a poetry collection by Haitian-born poet Danielle Legros Georges (1946–2025), who passed away barely a month after it was published. The collection fuses memory, history, and lyric meditation. Drawing on her family's migration story—her parents were among the Haitian émigrés to the newly decolonized Congo—Legros Georges interlaces poems with letters, interviews, and archival fragments. The book retrieves a little-documented chapter of transnational history: the movement of Haitian professionals to Congo during the 1960s and 1970s, a period shaped by Haiti's political repression and the promise of Pan-African solidarity.The title Three Leaves, Three Roots encodes the collection's
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallThree Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti-Congo Story by Danielle Legros Georges (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USThree Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti-Congo Story by Danielle Legros Georges (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®156782026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte by Yveline Alexis (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987621
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If history is a conversation between the present and the past, then Yveline Alexis's Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte trackshow Haitian anti-imperialist discourse across the twentieth century turned to Charlemagne Péralte for inspiration. Péralte is most remembered as the martyred head of the cacos' peasant resistance against US military occupation of Haiti; Haiti Fights Back adds depth to our understanding of his person and his brand of resistance, and charts the afterlives of his activism. Alexis argues that Péralte emerged as the symbol and embodiment of resistance against foreign intervention in Haitian governance and dictatorship. Beyond presenting a biography of Péralte and a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallHaiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte by Yveline Alexis (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USHaiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte by Yveline Alexis (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®110352026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom par Julia Gaffield (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987622
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Parmi les figures de la Révolution haïtienne, Dessalines est particulièrement malmené. En Haïti, il est souvent pris à partie, d'aucuns lui reprochant la vérification des titres de propriété, assimilant cette vérification à une fourberie ; d'autres lui refusant tout bonnement le statut d'homme d'état, arguant son rôle terminé une fois proclamée l'indépendance. Tout au moins y est-il loué pour sa participation héroïque à la guerre de l'Indépendance. Hors d'Haïti, la mémoire de Dessalines est quasiment oblitérée : ou ce sont de grossières condamnations sans appel, ou c'est un silence,1 tandis que, en compensation, l'on fait valoir les mérites de Toussaint, passé pour le principal meneur de la révolution. Dans les
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallI Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom par Julia Gaffield (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USI Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom par Julia Gaffield (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®235862026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe by Marlene L. Daut (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987623
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In The First and Last King of Haiti, Marlene Daut redefines the story of one of Haiti's most misunderstood and defamed historical figures: King Henry Christophe. She argues that after his death in 1820, the king's legacy was dictated by his detractors, both Haitian and French, who inscribed sensationalist rumours of violence and tyranny into the historical record. These claims, uncritically repeated, have wormed their way into contemporary scholarship, in turn obscuring other truths about Haitian state-making and political thought during and after the Revolution. Daut now aims to redress this historical injustice and write Christophe's life as he might have lived it, from an enslaved childhood in Grenada to monarch
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallThe First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe by Marlene L. Daut (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USThe First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe by Marlene L. Daut (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®105342026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Reclaiming Haiti's Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination by Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987624
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Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson's Reclaiming Haiti's Futures compares the placemaking practices of two generations of intellectuals who returned to the nation following political and social crisis (kriz): jenerasyon 86 (exiled intellectuals during the Duvalier regime) and jenn doktè (the younger doctorates who returned after the earthquake in 2010). It argues that their return-after-crisis emphasizes their future-oriented commitment for Haiti's social transformation through higher education. Dubuisson examines and challenges notions of "homing," "belonging," and "inhabitability" as they relate to the seemingly unidirectional flow of Haitian scholars and thinkers to other countries such as the United States, France, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallReclaiming Haiti's Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination by Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USReclaiming Haiti's Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination by Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®110112026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Reclaiming Haiti's Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination par Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987625
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Reclaiming Haiti's Futures : Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination de Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson s'inscrit dans le champ émergent de l'anthropologie du futur pour interroger les conditions sociales, politiques et affectives du retour des intellectuels haïtiens, ainsi que leur rôle dans la (re)construction de lieux d'appartenance au sein d'un espace caribéen profondément fracturé par la colonialité, entendue comme la survivance des rapports de domination hérités du colonialisme. En rupture avec la narration dominante de l'inhabitalité d'Haïti, Dubuisson propose une lecture critique des dynamiques de retour, en mettant en lumière les efforts des intellectuels haïtiens pour créer des espaces
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallReclaiming Haiti's Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination par Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USReclaiming Haiti's Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination par Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®211472026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Haïti, la rançon de l'indépendance by Wandrille Lanos (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987626
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Haïti, la rançon de l'indépendance (2024) is an outstanding and beautifully shot film about the history and legacy of the 150-million-franc indemnity ("independence ransom") that Haiti agreed to pay France in 1825. Directed by French journalist and filmmaker Wandrille Lanos, the film arrives amid a wave of growing interest in France in recovering the long-suppressed histories of slavery and of French colonialism in Haiti. Following activism from Antillean-descended citizens of France, the Taubira Law of 2001 declared slavery a crime against humanity. In its wake, the French government finally began to acknowledge the history of slavery in the French empire and to begin teaching about it in schools. In the last two
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallHaïti, la rançon de l'indépendance by Wandrille Lanos (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USHaïti, la rançon de l'indépendance by Wandrille Lanos (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®117462026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14L'État haïtien et ses intellectuels. Socio-histoire d'un engagement politique (1801–1860) par Délide Joseph (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987627
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Depuis plus de cinq décennies, de nombreux historiens et chercheurs haïtiens et étrangers s'intéressent à la formation et à l'évolution de l'État en Haïti. Plusieurs étudient le processus révolutionnaire qui a abouti à la formation d'Haïti et ses premières années d'existence. D'autres s'occupent des crises politiques, des difficultés de développement et des mouvement populaires. Par ailleurs, une tendance de l'historiographie locale aborde l'évolution de la société haïtienne à partir du bilan des chefs d'États.1 Elle projette surtout la contribution de quelques figures de l'élite politique dans sa construction. Les analyses et réflexions sur la contribution des intellectuels haïtiens à ce processus restent très
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallL'État haïtien et ses intellectuels. Socio-histoire d'un engagement politique (1801–1860) par Délide Joseph (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USL'État haïtien et ses intellectuels. Socio-histoire d'un engagement politique (1801–1860) par Délide Joseph (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®175832026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Passagères de nuit by Yanick Lahens (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987628
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Yanick Lahen's sixth novel travels from rumblings of insurrection in Saint-Domingue to turn-of-the-century New Orleans and on through Haiti's tumultuous nineteenth century as she explores five generations of women's lives. Though neither a memoir disguised as a novel nor a classic Caribbean tale of exile and return, Passagères de nuit nevertheless honors specific lives in Lahens's ancestry, beginning with "mon aïeule, Régina Jean-Baptiste" and "ma bisaïeule, Elizabeth Jacob" as she clarifies her method in a poetic dedication that speaks to these women across time and space:
Je vous ai inventées sur les sentiers du songe, imaginant aussi toutes ces femmes qui vous ont précédées, celle qui vous ont entourées :
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallPassagères de nuit by Yanick Lahens (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USPassagères de nuit by Yanick Lahens (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®151312026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14The Citizenship Experiment: Contesting the Limits of Civic Equality and Participation in the Age of Revolutions by René Koekkoek, and: The Unfinished Revolution: Haiti, Black Sovereignty and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World by Karen Salt (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987629
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The historical contestations over the meanings of citizenship and sovereignty in the Atlantic World have most often been explored through the lens of the French and US American revolutions. As René Koekkoek notes in The Citizenship Experiment: Contesting the Limits of Civic Equality and Participation in the Age of Revolutions, the link between the Age of Revolutions and the development of what has been called "modern" citizenship is well-established in the literature—but that story has remained "partial" at best (6). Similarly, Karen Salt, in The Unfinished Revolution: Haiti, Black Sovereignty and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, points to the absence in the scholarship, especially among
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallThe Citizenship Experiment: Contesting the Limits of Civic Equality and Participation in the Age of Revolutions by René Koekkoek, and: The Unfinished Revolution: Haiti, Black Sovereignty and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World by Karen Salt (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USThe Citizenship Experiment: Contesting the Limits of Civic Equality and Participation in the Age of Revolutions by René Koekkoek, and: The Unfinished Revolution: Haiti, Black Sovereignty and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World by Karen Salt (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®245152026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction by Lucy Swanson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987630
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One of the most fascinating figures of Haitian culture to have entered mainstream US American and global popular culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the zombie is also frequently misunderstood, oversimplified, and sensationalized. Reminding readers of the attention that Hollywood representations have drawn to it, Lucy Swanson's The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction traces the zombie's emergence in the French Caribbean within the context of colonial enslavement and examines its subsequent regional manifestations in contemporary Francophone Caribbean literature. Swanson's monograph stands as a distinctive and necessary intervention in Haitian and Francophone Caribbean literary studies.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/632/image/coversmallThe Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction by Lucy Swanson (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USThe Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction by Lucy Swanson (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®90822026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14