The Unhealed Wound: Contemporary Black Diasporic Literature and the Continuing Memory of the Duvalier Dictatorship

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dc.contributor.advisorOrlando, Valerie Ken_US
dc.contributor.advisorMallios, Peteren_US
dc.contributor.authorEdwards, Norrell Fen_US
dc.contributor.departmentEnglish Language and Literatureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-01T06:42:54Z
dc.date.available2020-02-01T06:42:54Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.description.abstractIn the 1990s, as Haiti continued to withstand the aftershocks of the end of a 29 year father-son dictatorship, the United States and France hovered in the periphery to “help” Haiti’s transition to democracy. World systems theory dictates that a country like Haiti would be relegated to the periphery while countries like the United States and France inhabit the core. The Unhealed Wound: Contemporary Black Diasporic Literature and the Continuing Memory of the Duvalier Dictatorship inverts this dynamic. This work places Port-au-Prince at the core, while New York and Paris—secondary homes to Haitian exiles and emigres—becomes the periphery. Traversing national borders, politics and disciplines, this study investigates how memory, history and literature shape the physical and imagined cityscapes of New York, Port-au-Prince and Paris. Bringing together authors such as Edwidge Danticat, Lyonel Trouillot and Shay Youngblood, Edwards questions and explores dynamics of the Black immigrant body and Haitian body in these cities in the 1980’s, 1990’s and early 2000’sen_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/vmxp-2wjq
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/25465
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEnglish literatureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDiasporaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHaitien_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMemoryen_US
dc.titleThe Unhealed Wound: Contemporary Black Diasporic Literature and the Continuing Memory of the Duvalier Dictatorshipen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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