The Francophone Caribbean and North America
January 2011
Guest Co-Editors: Alec G. Hargreaves & Martin Munro
Articles and Essays
Charles Forsdick
“BURST OF THUNDER, STAGE PITCH BLACK”: THE PLACE OF HAITI IN US INTER-WAR CULTURAL PRODUCTION
J. Michael Dash
HEMISPHERIC HORIZONS: CONFINEMENT, MOBILITY, AND THE “BATEAUX-PRISONS” OF THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN IMAGINARY
Martin Munro
SLAVES TO THE RHYTHM: THE RHYTHMIC EVOLUTION OF PLANTATION SOCIETIES
Thomas C. Spear
POLES AND CENTERS
Kieran M. Murphy
WHITE ZOMBIE
Nadève Ménard
PRIVATE OCCUPATIONS: INTERRACIAL LOVE TRIANGLES IN HAITIAN NOVELS
Rachel Douglas
REWRITING AMERICA/DANY LAFERRIÈRE’S REWRITING
Kiera Vaclavik
MORE THAN MIRRORS: DANY LAFERRIÈRE AND FREDERIC NORMANDIN’S JE SUIS FOUS DE VAVA
Alessandra Benedicty
BARTHES, GENETTE, AND LAFERRIÈRE: CRAFTING AND COMMENTING WRITING IN HOW TO MAKE LOVE TO A NEGRO
Dany Laferrière and Thomas C. Spear
SUPPORTING HAITI
Fiction
Lyonel Trouillot
EXCERPT FROM YANVALOU POUR CHARLIE (Arles: Actes Sud, 2009), pp. 169-175