Spring 2008
Journal of Haitian Studies, Volume 14, Number 1
Special Issue on Frankétienne
Guest editor: Jean Jonassaint
Contents
Editor's Note
Au prisme des autres, des prises de l'Autre : Frankétienne
—Jean Jonassaint, Guest Editor
Frankétienne: Critical Explorations
Totolomannwèl: Frankétienne and
the One Man Show
—Alvina Ruprecht
Voyance au pays maudit: Allegorical Masks in Frankétienne’s Fleurs d’insomnie
—Seanna Sumalee Oakley
Eating His Words: An Aesthetic of Rewriting
Exemplified in Les Métamorphoses de l’Oiseau Schizophone
—Rachel Douglas
Narrational Devices, Discourses of Emancipation: Frankétienne’s Les Affres d’un défi
—Alessandra Benedicty
Showing vs. Telling: Spiralisme in the Light
of Antillanité
—Kaiama L. Glover
Translating Frankétienne: Gun Blesse America
The Joy of Completing a Translation in Class
—Isabelle Cata
Translators' Comments on L'Amerique saigne (Gun Blesse America)
—Alison Dykman, Tracy Elizabeth Robey, and Natalie Hampshire
Gun Blesse America
—Frankétienne & Claude Dambreville
Frankétienne: Selected Works
from H'Éros-Chimères
—Frankétienne
Kaselezo
—Frankétienne
Reviews
Nathalie Dessens, From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influence
—Garvey F. Lundy
Laurent Dubois, A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation
in the French Caribbean, 1787 –1804
—Radica Mahase
Robert Fatton Jr., The Roots of Haitian Despotism
—Robert Maguire
Patricia D. Fox, Being and Blackness in Latin America: Uprootedness and Improvisation
—Gaye Theresa Johnson
Peter Hallward, Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment
—Jean-Germain Gros
