Andrew N Leak
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew N Leak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew N |
| FAMILY NAME | Leak |
| SIGNATURE | LEAK A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Nonmagical Realism Of Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs De La Rosée
The Nonmagical Realism Of Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs De La Rosée Andrew Leak Et, quand nous disons que l'homme est responsable de lui-même, nous ne voulons pas dire de sa stricte individualité, mais qu'il est responsable de tous les hommes. -Jean-Paul Sartre, L'Existentialisme est un humanisme Gouverneurs de la rosée has received more critical attention than any other Haitian novel, and much of that attention has been focused on the "realist" …
A Vain Fascination
In the wake of the huge earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, Haiti instantly became the focus of media attention across the world. At that moment, the tropes that had imprisoned Haiti for two centuries (barbarism, savagery, vodou, the land-that-God-forgot, etc.) began to resurface. Some Haitian intellectuals sought to combat those images, but in so doing they inadvertently revealed their complicity not only in the negative discursive …
Transnational Nomads
There is a tendency to consider all refugees as 'vulnerable victims': an attitude reinforced by the stream of images depicting refugees living in abject conditions. This groundbreaking study of Somalis in a Kenyan refugee camp reveals the inadequacy of such assumptions by describing the rich personal and social histories that refugees bring with them to the camps. The author focuses on the ways in which Somalis are able to adapt their 'nomadic' h…
The Nonmagical Realism Of Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs De La Rosée
The Nonmagical Realism Of Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs De La Rosée Andrew Leak Et, quand nous disons que l'homme est responsable de lui-même, nous ne voulons pas dire de sa stricte individualité, mais qu'il est responsable de tous les hommes. -Jean-Paul Sartre, L'Existentialisme est un humanisme Gouverneurs de la rosée has received more critical attention than any other Haitian novel, and much of that attention has been focused on the "realist" …
Transnational Nomads
There is a tendency to consider all refugees as 'vulnerable victims': an attitude reinforced by the stream of images depicting refugees living in abject conditions. This groundbreaking study of Somalis in a Kenyan refugee camp reveals the inadequacy of such assumptions by describing the rich personal and social histories that refugees bring with them to the camps. The author focuses on the ways in which Somalis are able to adapt their 'nomadic' h…
A Vain Fascination
In the wake of the huge earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, Haiti instantly became the focus of media attention across the world. At that moment, the tropes that had imprisoned Haiti for two centuries (barbarism, savagery, vodou, the land-that-God-forgot, etc.) began to resurface. Some Haitian intellectuals sought to combat those images, but in so doing they inadvertently revealed their complicity not only in the negative discursive …
The Nonmagical Realism Of Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs De La Rosée
The Nonmagical Realism Of Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs De La Rosée Andrew Leak Et, quand nous disons que l'homme est responsable de lui-même, nous ne voulons pas dire de sa stricte individualité, mais qu'il est responsable de tous les hommes. -Jean-Paul Sartre, L'Existentialisme est un humanisme Gouverneurs de la rosée has received more critical attention than any other Haitian novel, and much of that attention has been focused on the "realist" …
Sociology (3 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Art (1 works) · Barbarism (1 works) · China's Global Influence and Migration (1 works) · Comedy (1 works)