Spirit possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou thought : an intellectual history / / Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken

• Autore: Benedicty-Kokken Alessandra <1973->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (437 p.)
• Disciplina: 133.4/26097294
• Soggetto topico: Vodou - Haiti; Spirit possession - Haiti
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: <span><span>This book recuperates the important history that Haitian thought around Vodou possession has had in French critical theory. </span></span>
• Titolo autorizzato: Spirit possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou thought
• ISBN: 0-7391-8466-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787922203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II