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Series
Francophone postcolonial studies volume new ser., 1
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Series
Francophone postcolonial studies volume new ser., 3
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Series
Francophone postcolonial studies volume 4
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Series
Francophone postcolonial studies volume new ser., 5
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Series
Francophone postcolonial studies volume new ser., 7
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This 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...