Recent Books of Interest to Haitian Scholars (2021-2022)
published June 7, 2022
Haiti Then and Now is pleased to publish a list of new books, published in the academic year 2021-2022, that may be of interest to scholars and students of Haiti and to the general reader. Chiefly, the list of 36 books includes texts published only in English and French. The books below address various issues and articulate different perspectives on Haiti and Haitian national history. When you click on the individual title, you will be directed to the Amazon’s website to learn more about the book, such as its description.
Year 2021
- Voyage de France à Saint-Domingue: Transcription d’un manuscript inédit introduced by David Geggus with Roger Little (Editions L’Harmattan, 2021)
- Recueil de législations diplomatiques et consulaires d’Haïti 1804-2020 edited by Olivier Theralus (Pro Éditions, 2021)
- What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy (The House Books, 2021)
- The Guise of Exceptionalism: Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti and the United States by Robert Fatton (Rutgers University Press, 2021)
- Haïti et le monde : Deux siècles de relations internationales by Wien Weibert Arthus (Bibliothèque Nationale d’Haïti, 2021)
- Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader by Michel-Rolph Trouillot and edited by Yarimar Bonilla, Greg Beckett, and Mayanthi L. Fernando (Duke University Press, 2021)
- Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities: Anténor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition edited by Celucien L. Joseph and Paul C. Mocombe (Routledge, 2021)
- Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall (University Press of Mississippi, 2021)
- Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte by Yveline Alexis (Rutgers University Press, 2021)
- Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora by Crystal Nicole Eddins (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
- Haiti’s Literary Legacies: Romanticism and the Unthinkable Revolution edited by Kir Kuiken and Deborah Elise White (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
- The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat edited by Jana Evans Braziel and Nadège T. Clitandre (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
- Devenir prêtre ou prêtresse vodou en Haïti : Entrecroisement entre les impératifs de la continuité et du changement by Samuel Régulus (Presses de l’Université Laval, 2021)
- La didactisation du créole au cœur de l’aménagement linguistique en Haïti edited by Robert Berrouët-Oriol (Editions CIDIHCA/Zémès, Montréal (Canada)/Pétion-Ville (Haïti), 2021)
- Historical dictionary of Haiti edited by Féquière Vilsaint Michael R. Hall (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)
- A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou: Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites by Benjamin Hebblethwaite (University Press of Mississippi, 2021)
- The Haiti Exception: Anthropology and the Predicaments of Narrative edited by Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, Jhon Picard Byron, Kaiama L. Glover, and Mark Schuller (Liverpool University Press, 2021)
- Stirring the Pot of Haitian History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, translated by Mariana F. Past and Benjamin Hebblethwaite (Liverpool University Press, 2021)
- Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti by Vincent Joos (Rutgers University Press, 2021)
- Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives edited by Cécile Accilien and Valérie K. Orlando (University of Florida Press, 2021)
- Haiti in the British Imagination: Imperial Worlds, 1847-1915 by Jack Daniel Webb (Liverpool University Press, 2021)
- Plaidoyer pour une Haïti démocratique : Essai de sociologie politique haïtienne couvrant la période de 1987 à 1994 by Théodore Oriol (Éditions universitaires européennes, 2021)
- Marxisme et aliénation. Cinq études sur le marxisme haïtien by Jean-Jacques Cadet ( Éditions Gouttes Lettres, 2021)
Year 2022
24. Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology by Marlene L. Daut, Grégory Pierrot, and Marion C. Rohrleitner (University of Virginia Press, 2022)
25. The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society by Philippe-Richard Marius (University Press of Mississippi, 2022)
26. Spirit Service: Vodún and Vodou in the African Atlantic World edited by Eric James Montgomery, Timothy R. Landry, and Christian N. Vannier (Indiana University Press, 2022)
27. The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean by Nick Nesbitt (University of Virginia Press, 2022)
28. Le non-respect du droit de l’environnement : obstacle au développement durable en Haïti l’inexistence ou l’ineffectivité des règles environnementales en Haïti by Jonathan Belval (Éditions universitaires européennes, 2022)
29. Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States by Leslie M. Alexander (forthcoming: University of Illinois Press, December 27, 2022)
30. Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti by Pierre Minn (forthcoming: Cornell University Press, September 15, 2022)
31. Transnational Hispaniola: New Directions in Haitian and Dominican Studies edited by April J. Mayes and Kiran C. Jayaram (University of Florida Press, 2022)
32. La révolution servile haïtienne et l’énigme du retour by Jean Waddimir Gustinvil (forthcoming: Éditions de l’Université d’État d’Haïti, 2022)
33. Critique de la raison dominicaine: La question de l’antihaitianisme by Glodel Mezilas (Éditions de l’Université d’État d’Haïti, 2022)
34. 𝑃𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑚𝑒 𝑒𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑒́𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑒𝑛 𝐻𝑎𝑖̈𝑡𝑖. 𝑈𝑛𝑒 𝑒́𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑒́𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑑𝑒 𝑙’𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑏𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑒𝑡 𝑑𝑢 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒 by Jean Rony Gustave (Editions l’Harmattan, 2022)
35. The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti by Erin L. Durban (forthcoming: University of Illinois Press, 2022)
36. L’affaire PetroCaribe en Haïti: La corruption dans les pays du Sud. Entre la politique et la science edited by Jacques Nesi and Jean-Jacques Cadet (CIDIHCA FRANCE, 2022)
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