Echoes of Past Revolutions

Architecture, Memory, and Spectral Politics in the Historic Districts of Port-au-Prince

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2489232
AutoresJoo (0000-0002-2483-884X, Florida State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen17
Fecha de publicación2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-43412020v17d510
OpenAlexW3088939954
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412020000100510
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas16

This article explores the life history of Ulrick Rosarion, a Haitian federal prosecutor who built his career during the Duvalier dictatorship. Rosarion lived his entire life in a small house of downtown Port-au-Prince, in a neighborhood formerly inhabited by the Black middle-classes that gained prominence in the political and administrative sphere during the dictatorship (1957-1986). Rosarion was also a writer who produced four books of nationalist poetry. Based on interviews and readings of his literary production, and beyond, through an exploration of architectural forms and material remnants echoing the dictatorship, this paper explores how an idealized version of the dictatorship today haunts the political landscape of Haiti. Moreover, this article argues that the state takes on a sensual form that allows for the diffusion and/or rupture of past ideologies

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