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Author Walsh, John Patrick, 1971- author.

Title Migration and refuge : an eco-archive of haitian literature, 1982-2017 / John Patrick Walsh
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (x, 254 pages)
Series Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; [58]
Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 58.
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Tè glise, Continents à la dérive: Haiti between Shifting Continents, Past and Present; Part I. The Eco-Archive; 1. For an Eco-Archive; 2. Haitian Odysseys; Part II. Literary Witness; 3. The Banality of Disaster; 4. The Distant Literary Witness and the Ghosts of History in the "Other America"; Part III. The Anthropocene from Below; 5. Fictions of Migration and Refuge from the Anthropocene; Epilogue: Land and Seas of Migration and Refuge, Past and Present; Bibliography; Index
Summary An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. Haitian writers have made profound contributions to debates about the converging paths of political and natural histories, yet their reflections on the legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and neoliberalism are often neglected in heated disputes about the future of human life on the planet. The 2010 earthquake only exacerbated this contradiction. Despite the fact that Haitian authors have long treated the connections between political violence, precariousness, and ecological degradation, in media coverage around the world, the earthquake would have suddenly exposed scandalous conditions on the ground in Haiti. This book argues that contemporary Haitian literature historicizes the political and environmental problems brought to the surface by the earthquake by building on texts of earlier generations, especially at the end of the Duvalier era and its aftermath. Informed by Haitian studies and models of postcolonial ecocriticism, the book conceives of literature as an "eco-archive," or a body of texts that depicts ecological change over time and its impact on social and environmental justice. Focusing equally on established and less well-known authors, the book contends that the eco-archive challenges future-oriented, universalizing narratives of the Anthropocene and the global refugee crisis with portrayals of different forms and paths of migration and refuge within Haiti and around the Americas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, April 1, 2019)
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Subject Haitian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Haitian literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Political ecology in literature
Earthquakes in literature.
Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010.
Refuge in literature.
Literature: history & criticism.
General & world history.
Social impact of disasters.
Migration, immigration & emigration.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
Refuge in literature
Earthquakes in literature
Haitian literature
Haiti
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781786949561
1786949563