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Benedicty-Kokken Alessandra <1973-> |
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Spirit possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou thought : an intellectual history / / Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (437 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Vodou - Haiti |
Spirit possession - Haiti |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Possession, Dispossession, and Self-Possession; I: Dispossessions: Nationhood, Citizenship, Personhood, and Poverty; Chapter One: Hegel and Agamben; Chapter Two: States of Exception; Chapter Three: The Newest Utopia; Chapter Four: Mbembe's "Unhappiness" and Trouillot's "Fundamentally New Subjects"; II: Possession Dispossessed: Pathologizing and a "Western" Intellectual History of Possession; Chapter Five: "Unhappiness" as Taboo; Chapter Six: Secularizing Possession andFostering Revolution?; Chapter Seven: Leiris's "Lived Theater" |
Chapter Eight: From Haiti to Brazil, from Herskovits to MétrauxChapter Nine: Verger's Image in Bataille'sTears of Eros; Chapter Ten: Possession, a Threshold to a Biopolitical Order; III: Repossessing Possession: After Franco-American Ethnography, after Duvalier-Vodou in Depestre's Hadriana dans tous mes rêves; Chapter Eleven: Depestre, the "Autofiction" of the "(Anti)Hero" of "A New World Mediterranean"; Chapter Twelve: The West's Obsession with Defining Art; Chapter Thirteen: Between Frankétienne and Glissant |
IV: Self-Repossession: The Dispossessed and Their "New Subjectivities"-Jean-Claude Fignolé's and Kettly Mars's NovelsChapter Fourteen: On "Un-Becoming" Racial; Chapter Fifteen: Possession as Fluidity: Finding Equilibrium under a Neoliberal Order; Appendix; Bibliography; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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<span><span>This book recuperates the important history that Haitian thought around Vodou possession has had in French critical theory. </span></span> |
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