Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 804378 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Régine Michelle Jean-Charles |
| NOMBRES | Régine Michelle |
| APELLIDO | Jean-Charles |
| FIRMA | JEAN-CHARLES R M |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7851-451X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Haitian Feminist Futures
In response to the various review essays, this essay ponders the afterlives of Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022) by reflecting on the presence and absence in Caribbean literature of Haitian girls' dreams for the future. The author examines the Haitian girl characters in novels by Kettly Mars, Yanick Lahens, and Évelyne Trouillot, as well as in a poem by Claudine Michel. The essay builds on this work in search of …
The Afterlives of #MeToo
One of the risks of a special issue with US-based editors and with a topic overwhelmingly identified not only with the US but also with affluent white women is that conversations might neglect the expertise of scholars focused on Indigeneity and the majority of the world. The diverse scholars who contribute to this roundtable—while by no means covering every region in which #MeToo activism has taken place—decenter the US in exploring #MeToo disco…
Nou pa gen vizibilite
A decade has passed since an earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince causing one of the deadliest disasters in the world.1 January 12, 2010 is forever etched in history and inscribed in the Haitian im
The Psychic Hold of Slavery
What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day? Featuring original essays from an array of establish…
Naming, Claiming, and Framing Marie Chauvet
This essay offers a metacritical reading of the discourses surrounding Haitian author Marie Chauvet (1916–1973). I argue that paying attention to the naming (how she is described), claiming (how scholars and authors define their investment in her work), and framing (how her work is analyzed by scholars) of Chauvet reveals a dominant discourse that influences our study of the author. Taking a feminist approach to the interpretations of her work, I…
Occupying the Center
This essay takes two images of Haitian girls in Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being as a point of departure to reflect on the iconography of Haitian suffering. It argues that Sharpe’s claim that the Haitian girl in the photo taken in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake “occupies the center of the work” is thrown into question when her work is juxtaposed with literary narratives that feature Haitian girl protagonists, such as E…
Rethinking paradox
This article argues that Leonora Miano’s play Ecrits pour la parole (2012) moves beyond the concept of paradox that has characterized critical work on Black France. Instead, Miano focuses on duality, responding to and rejecting anti-Black racism in specifically gendered ways evident in her combination of feminist and human rights discourses. The play enters into these discourses through the use of the monologue in particular. Form becomes one of …
Trauma Lost in Translation
Trauma Lost in TranslationTeaching Gisèle Pineau’s L’espérance-macadam / Macadam Dreams Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (bio) ...the unspeakable spoken may reveal those texts to have deeper and other meanings, deeper and other power, deeper and other significances. —Toni Morrison, “Unspeakable Things Unpoken” ...literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at…
The Myth of Diaspora Exceptionalism
This essay analyzes elements of the music, nonprofit work, political aspirations, and autobiography of hip-hop star Wyclef Jean in light of performance theory and discourses of Haitian exceptionalism. I argue that Wyclef stages a version of diasporic identity that is propelled by two central tropes of exceptionalism-romance and tragedy. Building on Michel-Rolph Trouillot's concept of Haitian exceptionalism as a fiction, I use performance theory m…
A Translation of a Translation
A Translation of a TranslationResponse to Brent Hayes Edwards Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (bio) I begin with a quote from about midway through Brent Hayes Edwards’s essay, “The Taste of the Archive”: It is easy enough to state that any cultural criticism must involve a form of translation . . . cultural criticism is necessarily always a translation of a translation, since any object of analysis, whether a novel or a dance or the simplest “everyd…
Callaloo Conference Reflection
Callaloo Conference Reflection Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (bio) In his reflections on the genesis of the Callaloo Conference, Charles Rowell writes, “I intended the [first] New Orleans gathering as a call to action: a collective effort to begin changing the current ways artists and critics respond to each other’s work” (330). The third annual Callaloo Conference in Addis Ababa exemplified this effort and amplified the need for such a call to ac…
The Sway of Stigma
This essay explores the poetics and the politics of AIDS representation in the Haitian context through an examination of Arnold Antonin's film Le president a-t-il le SIDA? (Does the President Have AIDS?; 2006) and Myriam J. A. Chancy's novel Spirit of Haiti (2003). Drawing on the insights of queer theory, the author argue that the hyperconsciousness of stigma in the Haitian context imposes limits on the imaginings of AIDS in cultural production; …
The Myth of Diaspora Exceptionalism
This essay analyzes elements of the music, nonprofit work, political aspirations, and autobiography of hip-hop star Wyclef Jean in light of performance theory and discourses of Haitian exceptionalism. I argue that Wyclef stages a version of diasporic identity that is propelled by two central tropes of exceptionalism-romance and tragedy. Building on Michel-Rolph Trouillot's concept of Haitian exceptionalism as a fiction, I use performance theory m…
Occupying the Center
This essay takes two images of Haitian girls in Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being as a point of departure to reflect on the iconography of Haitian suffering. It argues that Sharpe’s claim that the Haitian girl in the photo taken in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake “occupies the center of the work” is thrown into question when her work is juxtaposed with literary narratives that feature Haitian girl protagonists, such as E…
Callaloo Conference Reflection
Callaloo Conference Reflection Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (bio) In his reflections on the genesis of the Callaloo Conference, Charles Rowell writes, “I intended the [first] New Orleans gathering as a call to action: a collective effort to begin changing the current ways artists and critics respond to each other’s work” (330). The third annual Callaloo Conference in Addis Ababa exemplified this effort and amplified the need for such a call to ac…
The Sway of Stigma
This essay explores the poetics and the politics of AIDS representation in the Haitian context through an examination of Arnold Antonin's film Le president a-t-il le SIDA? (Does the President Have AIDS?; 2006) and Myriam J. A. Chancy's novel Spirit of Haiti (2003). Drawing on the insights of queer theory, the author argue that the hyperconsciousness of stigma in the Haitian context imposes limits on the imaginings of AIDS in cultural production; …
A Translation of a Translation
A Translation of a TranslationResponse to Brent Hayes Edwards Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (bio) I begin with a quote from about midway through Brent Hayes Edwards’s essay, “The Taste of the Archive”: It is easy enough to state that any cultural criticism must involve a form of translation . . . cultural criticism is necessarily always a translation of a translation, since any object of analysis, whether a novel or a dance or the simplest “everyd…
Rethinking paradox
This article argues that Leonora Miano’s play Ecrits pour la parole (2012) moves beyond the concept of paradox that has characterized critical work on Black France. Instead, Miano focuses on duality, responding to and rejecting anti-Black racism in specifically gendered ways evident in her combination of feminist and human rights discourses. The play enters into these discourses through the use of the monologue in particular. Form becomes one of …
Trauma Lost in Translation
Trauma Lost in TranslationTeaching Gisèle Pineau’s L’espérance-macadam / Macadam Dreams Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (bio) ...the unspeakable spoken may reveal those texts to have deeper and other meanings, deeper and other power, deeper and other significances. —Toni Morrison, “Unspeakable Things Unpoken” ...literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at…
The Myth of Diaspora Exceptionalism
This essay analyzes elements of the music, nonprofit work, political aspirations, and autobiography of hip-hop star Wyclef Jean in light of performance theory and discourses of Haitian exceptionalism. I argue that Wyclef stages a version of diasporic identity that is propelled by two central tropes of exceptionalism-romance and tragedy. Building on Michel-Rolph Trouillot's concept of Haitian exceptionalism as a fiction, I use performance theory m…
Naming, Claiming, and Framing Marie Chauvet
This essay offers a metacritical reading of the discourses surrounding Haitian author Marie Chauvet (1916–1973). I argue that paying attention to the naming (how she is described), claiming (how scholars and authors define their investment in her work), and framing (how her work is analyzed by scholars) of Chauvet reveals a dominant discourse that influences our study of the author. Taking a feminist approach to the interpretations of her work, I…
Occupying the Center
This essay takes two images of Haitian girls in Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being as a point of departure to reflect on the iconography of Haitian suffering. It argues that Sharpe’s claim that the Haitian girl in the photo taken in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake “occupies the center of the work” is thrown into question when her work is juxtaposed with literary narratives that feature Haitian girl protagonists, such as E…
The Psychic Hold of Slavery
What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day? Featuring original essays from an array of establish…
Nou pa gen vizibilite
A decade has passed since an earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince causing one of the deadliest disasters in the world.1 January 12, 2010 is forever etched in history and inscribed in the Haitian im
The Afterlives of #MeToo
One of the risks of a special issue with US-based editors and with a topic overwhelmingly identified not only with the US but also with affluent white women is that conversations might neglect the expertise of scholars focused on Indigeneity and the majority of the world. The diverse scholars who contribute to this roundtable—while by no means covering every region in which #MeToo activism has taken place—decenter the US in exploring #MeToo disco…
Haitian Feminist Futures
In response to the various review essays, this essay ponders the afterlives of Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022) by reflecting on the presence and absence in Caribbean literature of Haitian girls' dreams for the future. The author examines the Haitian girl characters in novels by Kettly Mars, Yanick Lahens, and Évelyne Trouillot, as well as in a poem by Claudine Michel. The essay builds on this work in search of …
Art (10 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · Literature (7 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Politics (5 obras)