03261nam 2200589 450 991078792220332120230807204525.00-7391-8466-0(CKB)2670000000577565(EBL)1864125(SSID)ssj0001368841(PQKBManifestationID)12610738(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001368841(PQKBWorkID)11282676(PQKB)11434892(MiAaPQ)EBC1864125(Au-PeEL)EBL1864125(CaPaEBR)ebr11025269(CaONFJC)MIL664150(OCoLC)896794369(EXLCZ)99267000000057756520150313h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSpirit possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou thought an intellectual history /Alessandra Benedicty-KokkenLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2015.©20151 online resource (437 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-8465-2 1-322-32868-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 GlissantIV: 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; About the Author<span><span>This book recuperates the important history that Haitian thought around Vodou possession has had in French critical theory. </span></span>VodouHaitiSpirit possessionHaitiVodouSpirit possession133.4/26097294Benedicty-Kokken Alessandra1973-1537382MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787922203321Spirit possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou thought3786647UNINA