Haiti Exception - Anthropology and the Predicament of Narrative

Informationen zum Autor Alessandra Benedicty is assistant professor of Caribbean and postcolonial literatures in French at the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the City College of New York, and the author of Spirit Possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou Thought: An Intellectual History (Lexington Books, 2015). Klappentext This collection of essays considers the ways and extent of Haiti's 'exceptionalisation' 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. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays from international critics that considers the ways and extent of Haiti's exceptionalisation - 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.

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• Authors: Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, Mark Glover Schuller
• Assisted by: Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken (Editor), Jhon Picard Byron (Editor), Kaiama L Glover (Editor), Kaiama L. Glover (Editor), Kaiama L. (French Department Glover (Editor), Jhon (Faculty of Ethnology Picard Byron (Editor), Mark Schuller (Editor), Mark (Department of Anthropology Schuller (Editor)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2016
• EAN: 9781781382998
• ISBN: 978-1-78138-299-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Francophone Postcolonial Studi; Francophone Postcolonial Studies; Francophone Postcolonial Studi
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature