Alessandra Benedicty
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 769046 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alessandra Benedicty |
| NOMBRES | Alessandra |
| APELLIDO | Benedicty |
| FIRMA | BENEDICTY A |
| AFILIACIONES | City College of New York |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Healing in the Homeland
Book Review| May 01 2015 Healing in the Homeland: Haïtian Vodou Tradition Healing in the Homeland: Haïtian Vodou Tradition. By Margaret Mitchell Armand. Lexington Books, 2013. 247 pages. $70.00 cloth; $64.09 Kindle. Alessandra Benedicty Alessandra Benedicty City College Of New York Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2015) 18 (4): 115–117. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2015.18.4.115 Views Icon View…
Questions We Are Asking
Questions We Are Asking:Hegel, Agamben, Dayan, Trouillot, Mbembe, and Haitian Studies Alessandra Benedicty The traffic of images of global suffering, for example, creates new communities of sentiment, which introduce empathy, identification, and anger across large cultural distances. Martin Munro, Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature1 « C’est un autre monde, là-bas, Tatsumi, un pays perdu aux frontières de la soif. [...] Tu as bien traversé l’o…
Aesthetics of "Ex-centricity" and Considerations of "Poverty
Kaiama L. Glover's Haiti Unbound fills a gap in understanding writing that took place in Haiti during Duvalierism, helping to open onto new(er) global narratives. In so doing, Glover contributes to the questioning of how and why poverty is fetishized. This review explores the Spiralist aesthetic's illustration of why Haiti fascinates a “Western” sensibility. Grosso modo, the review outlines the existing narratives of “Haiti” as revolving around t…
Towards an Intellectual History of Possession
This article focuses mainly on what are known as André Breton's "Haitian Conferences" (1945-1946) and his 1928 novel Nadja, along with the embedded topic of spirit possession in Haitian Vodou. My proposition is to show how both the vocabulary and the theory that come to be associated with what I will call the "act of possession" in Breton's work engages a reflection that accounts for fragmented notions of identity. I draw on anthropological theor…
Barthes, Genette, and Laferrière
Questions We Are Asking
Questions We Are Asking:Hegel, Agamben, Dayan, Trouillot, Mbembe, and Haitian Studies Alessandra Benedicty The traffic of images of global suffering, for example, creates new communities of sentiment, which introduce empathy, identification, and anger across large cultural distances. Martin Munro, Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature1 « C’est un autre monde, là-bas, Tatsumi, un pays perdu aux frontières de la soif. [...] Tu as bien traversé l’o…
Barthes, Genette, and Laferrière
Aesthetics of "Ex-centricity" and Considerations of "Poverty
Kaiama L. Glover's Haiti Unbound fills a gap in understanding writing that took place in Haiti during Duvalierism, helping to open onto new(er) global narratives. In so doing, Glover contributes to the questioning of how and why poverty is fetishized. This review explores the Spiralist aesthetic's illustration of why Haiti fascinates a “Western” sensibility. Grosso modo, the review outlines the existing narratives of “Haiti” as revolving around t…
Towards an Intellectual History of Possession
This article focuses mainly on what are known as André Breton's "Haitian Conferences" (1945-1946) and his 1928 novel Nadja, along with the embedded topic of spirit possession in Haitian Vodou. My proposition is to show how both the vocabulary and the theory that come to be associated with what I will call the "act of possession" in Breton's work engages a reflection that accounts for fragmented notions of identity. I draw on anthropological theor…
Questions We Are Asking
Questions We Are Asking:Hegel, Agamben, Dayan, Trouillot, Mbembe, and Haitian Studies Alessandra Benedicty The traffic of images of global suffering, for example, creates new communities of sentiment, which introduce empathy, identification, and anger across large cultural distances. Martin Munro, Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature1 « C’est un autre monde, là-bas, Tatsumi, un pays perdu aux frontières de la soif. [...] Tu as bien traversé l’o…
Healing in the Homeland
Book Review| May 01 2015 Healing in the Homeland: Haïtian Vodou Tradition Healing in the Homeland: Haïtian Vodou Tradition. By Margaret Mitchell Armand. Lexington Books, 2013. 247 pages. $70.00 cloth; $64.09 Kindle. Alessandra Benedicty Alessandra Benedicty City College Of New York Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2015) 18 (4): 115–117. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2015.18.4.115 Views Icon View…
Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (5 obras) · Art (4 obras) · Art history (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Literature (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Aesthetics (2 obras) · Epistemology (2 obras)