LEADER 03300nam 2200577 450 001 9910466058803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78138-397-9 010 $a1-78138-452-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000770845 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4616288 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001597387 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781384527 035 $a(PPN)199487189 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4616288 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11240955 035 $a(OCoLC)953969234 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000770845 100 $a20160817d2016 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Haiti exception $eanthropology and the predicament of narrative /$fedited by Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, Kaiama L. Glover, Mark Schuller and Jhon Picard Byron 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (231 pages) 225 1 $aFrancophone postcolonial studies ;$vnew series, volume 7 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a1-78138-299-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 8 $aThis collection of essays considers the ways and extent of Haiti's 'exceptionalisation' - its perception in multiple arenas as definitively unique with respect not only to the countries of the North Atlantic, but also to the rest of the Americas. Painted at once as repulsive and attractive, abject and resilient, singular and exemplary, Haiti has long been framed discursively by an extraordinary epistemological ambivalence. The nation has served at once as cautionary tale, model for humanitarian aid and development projects, and point of origin for general theorizing of the so-called Third World. What to make of this dialectic of exemplarity and alterity? How to pull apart this multivalent narrative so as to examine its constituent parts? The contributors to The Haiti Exception take up these and other such questions from a variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives, among which Africana Studies, anthrohistory, art history, Black Studies, Caribbean Studies, education, ethnology, Jewish Studies, literary studies, performance studies, and urban studies. As they revise and interrogate their respective praxes, they accept the challenge of thinking about the particular stakes of and motivations for their own commitment to Haiti. Engaging in the decidedly risky anthropological practice of reflexivity, the scholars, activists and other social actors gathered here consider their own often fraught role in constructing Haiti in and as narrative. 410 0$aFrancophone postcolonial studies ;$vnew ser., v. 7. 606 $aEthnology$zHaiti 607 $aHaiti$xCivilization 607 $aHaiti$xHistoriography 607 $aHaiti$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEthnology 676 $a970.980 702 $aBenedicty-Kokken$b Alessandra$f1973- 702 $aGlover$b Kaiama L.$f1972- 702 $aSchuller$b Mark$f1973- 702 $aByron$b Jhon Picard 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466058803321 996 $aThe Haiti exception$92038143 997 $aUNINA