Haiti

Walter Rodney and the Politics of the Haitian Ruling Class

by Kurt Young

Lux, Christina. “The House Facing the Sea." Translation from the French of “La Maison face à la mer” by Marie-Célie Agnant. Metamorphoses: The Five College Faculty Seminar on Literary Translation, 11.1 (Spring 2003): 193-199.

by Christina Lux

also listed under translator's former name, "Vander Vorst"

Translation of a short story by Haitian author Marie-Célie Agnant; originally appeared in the collection Le Silence... more Translation of a short story by Haitian author Marie-Célie Agnant; originally appeared in the collection Le Silence comme le sang (1997).

Keywords: Haiti, short story, Agnant, Canada, women, gender, violence, conflict, Caribbean

Imagi-nations in Black and White: Cuba, Haiti, and the Performance of Difference in US National Projects, 1898-1940

by Shannon Rose Riley

Dissertation, University of California, Davis, 2006.
Performance Studies and Critical Theory
Committee: Lynette Hunter, Marc E. Blanchard, Jon D. Rossini

This project argues that Cuba and Haiti, both as site and as image, were crucial to the imaginative restructuring of... more This project argues that Cuba and Haiti, both as site and as image, were crucial to the imaginative restructuring of race and national identity in the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. By exploring the ways that national imaginaries—or imagi-Nations—were racialized between 1898 and 1940 through images of Cuba and Haiti, I am able to detail how such images compensated for white national hysteria while justifying U.S. economic imperialism, yet mediated a national black community in the U.S. Between 1898 and 1940, the U.S. occupied Cuba and Haiti for extended periods, creating an intercultural contact zone that facilitated a large body of cultural material by both black and white Americans, including plays, films, literature, and various forms of cultural performance. This body of material allows an examination of white U.S. imperialism and its popular culture in terms of its images of, and relations with, Cuba and Haiti. It also permits a study of the ways that black U.S. Americans re-imagined themselves as “Americans” through imagining, and traveling, to the two island republics. For example, the Harlem Renaissance, occurring during the occupation of Haiti, produced at least nine different plays on the theme of the Haitian Revolution. Through a focus on performance—from theatrical productions and cultural performance to thinking the nation as performance—I develop a theory of multiple racialized national imaginaries in order to increase our understanding of U.S. national identity and culture in the early twentieth century. Finally, given the odd repetition in the current occupation of Haiti by U.N. forces today, and the U.S. government’s increased efforts to bring liberal democracy to Cuba, there is some urgency to this project. In order to analyze both replication and change in national culture over time—from the persistence of the white imperial toolkit to the use of ironic citation as a kind of resistance within U.S. popular culture—I outline a theory of cultural palimpsest that addresses the circulation, citation, reinscription, and erasure of cultural forms and modes of production over time.

_Kathy Goes to Haiti_: Sex, Race, and Occupation in Kathy Acker's Voodoo Travel Narrative

by Shannon Rose Riley

published in _Kathy Acker and Transnationalism_, P. Mackay and K. Nicol, eds. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.

Haití y Honduras Paralelo más que simbólico entre golpes y temblores

by KAREN BÄHR CABALLERO

Leyendo en algún lado que en taino Haití significa “la montańa más alta”, se me ocurrió que además de ese bello... more Leyendo en algún lado que en taino Haití significa “la montańa más alta”, se me ocurrió que además de ese bello contrasentido existe entre nuestros países otro paralelo, el de la terrible catástrofe que castigó a Haití hace pocos días y la crisis política que agita a Honduras desde el golpe de estado de junio del año pasado.

El paralelo está en la cobertura mediática que algunos medios europeos y estadounidenses han hecho de ambos sucesos, y más precisamente, en las representaciones que de manera velada o más o menos directa, ofrecen de los haitianos y de los hondureños.

La gestión de la ayuda en un cotexto de deterioro estructural

by Julia Schünemann

¿Cuál es el rol de la UE? A la búsqueda de un nicho en el proceso de construcción de paz en Haití

by Julia Schünemann

Human Rights & Empire

by Petrea Alexis Nes Iadicola

It is commonly considered now that the whole of human society has broken free from the tethers of Super-Power rivalry;... more It is commonly considered now that the whole of human society has broken free from the tethers of Super-Power rivalry; and the iniquitous and antiquated systems which it consequently produced and sustained have subsequently withered.  In lieu of this deemed ‘archaic model,’ it is said that the world system of states and its peoples have entered a new era of enlightenment captured by a wide-spread embrace of a ‘cosmopolitan’ ethos; pronounced particularly by eager academicians. Simultaneously, this contemporary era is depicted as fertile breeding ground for new forms of conflict: from genocide, to ethnic cleansing, to civil wars.  The resurrection of this global cosmopolitan ethos has partly occurred in response to this modern illustration of the world.  In turn, through the germination of the cosmopolitan seeds sown in this hostile environment, the cosmopolitan resolve which tended toward non-intervention in its nascent Kantian stage, has shifted to one of military interventions on behalf of humanity.

Increasingly and mechanically, humanitarian military interventions have been absorbed into academic and political discourse and interpreted as the ultimate panacea to remedy the pandemic of human suffering, now spanning the globe.  The unhesitant acceptance of this humanitarian antidote and its advocates’ readiness to its indiscriminate disbursement however elicits several problems. Principally, this allegiance toward humanitarian interventions on behalf of its champions presents a problem in that there has been a paucity of critical inquiry within the dominant human rights discourse on the role of disparate power relations and the subsequent considerations, justifications, and executions of humanitarian military interventions.

This negligence presents a problem as it assumes that such interventions are suggested and conducted impartially and in the interests of the greater human society; far removed from the interests of great powers.  Thus, the paradigmatic discourse on humanitarian intervention tends to avert analytical inquiry into the prospective influence of imperialism and western hegemony in determining where and when a humanitarian intervention is necessitated and in determining its execution as consequence.

The purpose of the proceeding work is to scrutinise whether humanitarian interventions can be interpreted through imperialism theory; in other words whether humanitarian interventions could be interpreted as a project or instrument of Empire.  Firstly, this thesis examines the concept of humanitarian intervention and the cosmopolitan discourse, Just War theory, and ‘The Responsibility to Protect’ doctrine which have shaped and moulded its deliverance and reception. Proceeding from this, this thesis engages theories of imperialism, their evolution through the Marxist school of thought, and the varying forms of imperial control, penetration and integration through military, economic, and political channels. Finally a definition of imperialism is constructed to guide the subsequent analysis.

Three cases of humanitarian interventions are selected and examined: two interventions in the Republic of Haiti in 1994 and 2004, and one in the former Yugoslavia in 1999. The analysis imparted takes into consideration a range of factors both internal and external which contributed to the conditions which ostensibly ‘called for’ intervention, the conduct of the intervention, and the resulting ‘humanitarian’ climate the intervention later produced.  Finally, the interventions selected are contrasted against the definition of imperialism employed and the forms of imperial control, penetration and integration to evaluate whether or not a parabiotic relationship between humanitarian intervention and imperialism can be substantiated.  The conclusion of this thesis suggests that such a relationship is not only arguable in the three cases analysed, but that more generally the notion of humanitarian intervention fits comfortably within imperialism theory.

A Supply and Demand Approach to the Institutional Performance of Haiti

by Andres Marroquin

Andrés Marroquín. Published in "Revista Latinoamericana de Desarrollo Económico" (2005).

The claim is that the supply and demand of enforceable institutions in Haiti had been low, due to suboptimal... more The claim is that the supply and demand of enforceable institutions in Haiti had been low, due to suboptimal strategies played by the dictators and the public/army.

Blood Sugar

by Tim Morton

Published in Timothy Fulford and Peter Kitson, eds., Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780–1830 (Cambridge UP, 1998), 87–106.

An early account of anti-slavery poetics and one of its most common tropes. Also an early argument for thinking about... more An early account of anti-slavery poetics and one of its most common tropes. Also an early argument for thinking about nonhumans (“objects”).

Uses of medicinal plants by Haitian immigrants and their descendants in the Province of Camagüey, Cuba

by Gabriele Volpato

Migration and ethnobotanical practices: The case of Tifey among Haitian immigrants in Cuba

by Gabriele Volpato

“Au sommet du mât: érotisme et masculinité dans Le mât de cocagne de René Depestre.”

by Jacqueline Couti

“Au sommet du mât: érotisme et masculinité dans Le mât de cocagne de René Depestre.”
Cincinnati Romance Review 25 (2006): 45-63.

" Bandits Going Wild In Haiti" and Other Post-Quake Myths

by Tanya Golash-Boza

Protecting the children of Haiti

by Timothy Williams

2010, New England Journal of Medicine

State literacies and inequality: Managing Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic

by Lesley Bartlett

Magic and Mesmerism in Saint Domingue

by Kieran Murphy

Paroles Gelées: UCLA French Studies 24 (2008): 31-48.

White Zombie

by Kieran Murphy

Contemporary French and Francophone Studies/Sites. 15.1 (2011): 47-55. (Special issue on North America & the Caribbean, Ed. Alec Hargreaves and Martin Munro).

Haiti and America Latina: it is as it always was

by Kevin Pina

Recommendation for Electronic Health Records in Haiti

by Travis Horsley

By: Travis Horsley and Patrick Linton
Georgia Institute of Technology

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. After the 2010 earthquake, much of the infrastructure in the... more Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. After the 2010 earthquake, much of the infrastructure in the capital area was destroyed, including many hospitals and clincics. The paper-based records stored within were destroyed. Many tent-hospitals staffed by international volunteers had to treat trauma patients without any sort of medical record. An electronics health record (EHR) system could have maintained records for use in this crisis. This paper analyzes several EHR systems that have been implemented in the past in countries with HDI similar to Haiti, develops a typology for analyzing these systems, and proposes a path toward implementing a new EHR system.