J Michael Dash
Biographic Data
| ID | 109678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Michael Dash |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Dash |
| SIGNATURE | DASH J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
We dream together, Dominican independence, Haiti and the fight for Caribbean freedom
The Stranger by the Shore: The Archipelization of Caliban in Antillean Theatre
Caribbean Globalizations: 1492 To the Present Day, edited by Eva Sansavior & Richard Scholar
Haiti and the United States: National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination
Ni réel ni rêvé: Édouard Glissant - Poétique, Peinture, Paysage
Malgré le fait qu'Édouard Glissant a souvent écrit sur les artistes dans son œuvre, les critiques ont peu prêté attention à ses essais sur l'art. Son engouement pour l'art remonte au passage des surréalistes en Martinique en 1941 et à leur vision de la peinture comme un moyen privilégié d'accéder au surréel. Les premiers essais de Glissant sur les artistes ont paru dans les catalogues de la galerie du Dragon à Paris dans les années cinquante. Ils…
Neither Magical nor Exceptional: The Idea of the Ordinary in Caribbean Studies
Neither Magical nor Exceptional: The Idea of the Ordinary in Caribbean Studies J. Michael Dash But what I am inclined to retain from this visit to the ruins of a theatre is what this woman told me, the kind of legend or myth that spontaneously she had invented. Michel Leiris, "Antilles et poésie des carrefours" I had lost my companions on purpose. I wanted to tiptoe alone through the remains of history. Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past …
Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture
Hemispheric Horizons: Confinement, Mobility, and the “bateaux-prisons” of the French Caribbean Imaginary
Edouard Glissant: The Poetics of Risk
While there is an attempt to install Edouard Glissant as a literary patriarch after his death, we should not forget his interest in a poetics of risk that was tied to Michel Leiris's fascination with primitive rituals in general and the bullfight in particular. Glissant's well-known rejection of systems of organization is profoundly connected to the power of this primal drama in which the subject is always off balance, identity always thrown into…
Remembering Edouard Glissant
Remembering Edouard Glissant J. Michael Dash (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Edouard Glissant Ulf Andersen © 1993 [End Page 671] One of the co-founders of the Creolite movement in Martinique, Raphael Confiant, in his tribute to the greatest influence on his generation, the writer and theorist Edouard Glissant, asserted that if Martinique existed at all on the global stage it was because of three writers: Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fano…
Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and The Radical Enlightenment
Fictions of Displacement: Locating Modern Haitian Narratives
This article challenges the notion of Haitian cultural exceptionalism, and the ways in which in the postindigenist era the peasant novel in general and Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée in particular became yardsticks for judging Haitian writing. Evoking contemporary narratives of exile and return, the article argues that authors such as Dany Laferrière and Edwidge Danticat offer post-territorial understandings of culture and nation
The Theater of the Haitian Revolution the Haitian Revolution as Theater
Research Article| September 01 2005 The Theater of the Haitian Revolution the Haitian Revolution as Theater J. Michael Dash J. Michael Dash Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 16–23. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-2-16 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J. Michael Dash; The Theater of the Haitian Revolution the Haitian Revolution as Theater. Small Axe 1 September 200…
Roundtable: Writing, History, and Revolution
Research Article| September 01 2005 Roundtable: Writing, History, and Revolution Dany Laferrière; Dany Laferrière Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Louis-Philippe Dalembert; Louis-Philippe Dalembert Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Edwidge Danticat; Edwidge Danticat Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Évelyne Trouillot; Évelyne Trouillot Search for other works by this autho…
The Theater of the Haitian Revolution / The Haitian Revolution as Theater
Research Article| September 01 2005 The Theater of the Haitian Revolution the Haitian Revolution as Theater J. Michael Dash J. Michael Dash Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 16–23. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-2-16 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
Nineteenth-Century Haiti and the Archipelago of the Americas: Ant nor Firmin's Letters from St. Thomas
This essay examines the question of black internationalism in the last work written by Antenor Firmin, The Letters from St. Thomas. These letters, written in exile on the island of St. Thomas, reveal Firmin's thoughts on the question of racial difference, national identity and Haiti's hemispheric role. Because of the tendency to see nineteenth-century Haitian intellectuals as alienated and unenlightened, the complexity of Firmin's thought, genera…
Caraibe Fantome: The Play of Difference in the Francophone Caribbean
Anxious Insularity: Identity Politics and Creolization in the Caribbean
No Mad Art: The Deterritorialized Déparleur in the work of Edouard Glissant
Haiti and the United States: National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination
Haiti and the United States
Through the Eyes of the Other: Stereotypes of the Nineteenth Century
‘The Orient was almost a European invention’ asserts Edward Said in his remarkable study of Western attitudes to the East (Orientalism, 1978). His provocative thesis is that Europe has produced a discourse, a rigid grid of stereotypes that allows a particular image of the Orient to filter into Western consciousness. These images of the East are neither simply picturesque nor innocent but an imaginative strategy which reinforces Western notions of…
A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 1: Hispanic and Francophone Regions
This history for the first time charts the literature of the entire Caribbean, the islands as well as continental littoral, as one cultural region. It breaks new ground in establishing a common grid for reading literatures that have been kept separate by their linguistic frontiers. Readers will have access to the best current scholarship on the evolution of popular and literate cultures in the various regions since their earliest emergence. The H…
Engagement, Exile and Errance: Some Trends in Haitian Poetry 1946-1986
It is difficult to overestimate the influence of Jacques Roumain (1907-1944) on modern Haitian writing in general and poetry in particular. It is not Roumain's early lyrical poetry nor even his mood poems cast in the indigenist mode that have cast a long shadow on recent generations of Haitian writers. It is rather Roumain's incarnation of the idea of the intellectual as vagabond, as global ideologue, as well as his insistence on the relationship…
Defiance and Dread
Haiti, the Breached Citadel
Fictions of Displacement: Locating Modern Haitian Narratives
This article challenges the notion of Haitian cultural exceptionalism, and the ways in which in the postindigenist era the peasant novel in general and Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée in particular became yardsticks for judging Haitian writing. Evoking contemporary narratives of exile and return, the article argues that authors such as Dany Laferrière and Edwidge Danticat offer post-territorial understandings of culture and nation
Caraibe Fantome: The Play of Difference in the Francophone Caribbean
The World and The Word: French Caribbean Writing in The Twentieth Century
The supreme ambition that haunted Mallarme to the moment of his death is one that concerns us now-the Orphic explanation of the world. The poet's desire to reduce the world to an ideal expressivity has much in common with the literary historian's aim to enclose or tame the wild profusion of things, events, phenomena within neat conceptual categories. Such a task is particularly daunting in the face of the unyielding silence of the New World and t…
Ni réel ni rêvé: Édouard Glissant - Poétique, Peinture, Paysage
Malgré le fait qu'Édouard Glissant a souvent écrit sur les artistes dans son œuvre, les critiques ont peu prêté attention à ses essais sur l'art. Son engouement pour l'art remonte au passage des surréalistes en Martinique en 1941 et à leur vision de la peinture comme un moyen privilégié d'accéder au surréel. Les premiers essais de Glissant sur les artistes ont paru dans les catalogues de la galerie du Dragon à Paris dans les années cinquante. Ils…
Neither Magical nor Exceptional: The Idea of the Ordinary in Caribbean Studies
Neither Magical nor Exceptional: The Idea of the Ordinary in Caribbean Studies J. Michael Dash But what I am inclined to retain from this visit to the ruins of a theatre is what this woman told me, the kind of legend or myth that spontaneously she had invented. Michel Leiris, "Antilles et poésie des carrefours" I had lost my companions on purpose. I wanted to tiptoe alone through the remains of history. Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past …
Remembering Edouard Glissant
Remembering Edouard Glissant J. Michael Dash (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Edouard Glissant Ulf Andersen © 1993 [End Page 671] One of the co-founders of the Creolite movement in Martinique, Raphael Confiant, in his tribute to the greatest influence on his generation, the writer and theorist Edouard Glissant, asserted that if Martinique existed at all on the global stage it was because of three writers: Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fano…
Anxious Insularity: Identity Politics and Creolization in the Caribbean
Engagement, Exile and Errance: Some Trends in Haitian Poetry 1946-1986
It is difficult to overestimate the influence of Jacques Roumain (1907-1944) on modern Haitian writing in general and poetry in particular. It is not Roumain's early lyrical poetry nor even his mood poems cast in the indigenist mode that have cast a long shadow on recent generations of Haitian writers. It is rather Roumain's incarnation of the idea of the intellectual as vagabond, as global ideologue, as well as his insistence on the relationship…
Defiance and Dread
Haitian Writers in Exile: A Survey of North America
Some clarification is necessary before we begin in order not to mislead. This study is primarily exploratory and documentary. Exploratory because it forms the basis for a larger work whose ideas need to be synthesized and more closely scrutinized.1 Informative since it is essentially an inventory (an analytical one naturally) of novels and their authors who are Haitian nationals but who have lived and still live in North America. This presentatio…
Through the Eyes of the Other: Stereotypes of the Nineteenth Century
‘The Orient was almost a European invention’ asserts Edward Said in his remarkable study of Western attitudes to the East (Orientalism, 1978). His provocative thesis is that Europe has produced a discourse, a rigid grid of stereotypes that allows a particular image of the Orient to filter into Western consciousness. These images of the East are neither simply picturesque nor innocent but an imaginative strategy which reinforces Western notions of…
Haiti and the United States: National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination
The World and The Word: French Caribbean Writing in The Twentieth Century
The supreme ambition that haunted Mallarme to the moment of his death is one that concerns us now-the Orphic explanation of the world. The poet's desire to reduce the world to an ideal expressivity has much in common with the literary historian's aim to enclose or tame the wild profusion of things, events, phenomena within neat conceptual categories. Such a task is particularly daunting in the face of the unyielding silence of the New World and t…
Haiti, the Breached Citadel
Engagement, Exile and Errance: Some Trends in Haitian Poetry 1946-1986
It is difficult to overestimate the influence of Jacques Roumain (1907-1944) on modern Haitian writing in general and poetry in particular. It is not Roumain's early lyrical poetry nor even his mood poems cast in the indigenist mode that have cast a long shadow on recent generations of Haitian writers. It is rather Roumain's incarnation of the idea of the intellectual as vagabond, as global ideologue, as well as his insistence on the relationship…
Defiance and Dread
A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 1: Hispanic and Francophone Regions
This history for the first time charts the literature of the entire Caribbean, the islands as well as continental littoral, as one cultural region. It breaks new ground in establishing a common grid for reading literatures that have been kept separate by their linguistic frontiers. Readers will have access to the best current scholarship on the evolution of popular and literate cultures in the various regions since their earliest emergence. The H…
Haiti and the United States
Through the Eyes of the Other: Stereotypes of the Nineteenth Century
‘The Orient was almost a European invention’ asserts Edward Said in his remarkable study of Western attitudes to the East (Orientalism, 1978). His provocative thesis is that Europe has produced a discourse, a rigid grid of stereotypes that allows a particular image of the Orient to filter into Western consciousness. These images of the East are neither simply picturesque nor innocent but an imaginative strategy which reinforces Western notions of…
Haiti and the United States: National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination
No Mad Art: The Deterritorialized Déparleur in the work of Edouard Glissant
Caraibe Fantome: The Play of Difference in the Francophone Caribbean
Anxious Insularity: Identity Politics and Creolization in the Caribbean
Nineteenth-Century Haiti and the Archipelago of the Americas: Ant nor Firmin's Letters from St. Thomas
This essay examines the question of black internationalism in the last work written by Antenor Firmin, The Letters from St. Thomas. These letters, written in exile on the island of St. Thomas, reveal Firmin's thoughts on the question of racial difference, national identity and Haiti's hemispheric role. Because of the tendency to see nineteenth-century Haitian intellectuals as alienated and unenlightened, the complexity of Firmin's thought, genera…
The Theater of the Haitian Revolution the Haitian Revolution as Theater
Research Article| September 01 2005 The Theater of the Haitian Revolution the Haitian Revolution as Theater J. Michael Dash J. Michael Dash Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 16–23. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-2-16 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J. Michael Dash; The Theater of the Haitian Revolution the Haitian Revolution as Theater. Small Axe 1 September 200…
Roundtable: Writing, History, and Revolution
Research Article| September 01 2005 Roundtable: Writing, History, and Revolution Dany Laferrière; Dany Laferrière Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Louis-Philippe Dalembert; Louis-Philippe Dalembert Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Edwidge Danticat; Edwidge Danticat Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Évelyne Trouillot; Évelyne Trouillot Search for other works by this autho…
The Theater of the Haitian Revolution / The Haitian Revolution as Theater
Research Article| September 01 2005 The Theater of the Haitian Revolution the Haitian Revolution as Theater J. Michael Dash J. Michael Dash Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 16–23. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-2-16 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
Fictions of Displacement: Locating Modern Haitian Narratives
This article challenges the notion of Haitian cultural exceptionalism, and the ways in which in the postindigenist era the peasant novel in general and Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée in particular became yardsticks for judging Haitian writing. Evoking contemporary narratives of exile and return, the article argues that authors such as Dany Laferrière and Edwidge Danticat offer post-territorial understandings of culture and nation
Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and The Radical Enlightenment
Hemispheric Horizons: Confinement, Mobility, and the “bateaux-prisons” of the French Caribbean Imaginary
Edouard Glissant: The Poetics of Risk
While there is an attempt to install Edouard Glissant as a literary patriarch after his death, we should not forget his interest in a poetics of risk that was tied to Michel Leiris's fascination with primitive rituals in general and the bullfight in particular. Glissant's well-known rejection of systems of organization is profoundly connected to the power of this primal drama in which the subject is always off balance, identity always thrown into…
Remembering Edouard Glissant
Remembering Edouard Glissant J. Michael Dash (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Edouard Glissant Ulf Andersen © 1993 [End Page 671] One of the co-founders of the Creolite movement in Martinique, Raphael Confiant, in his tribute to the greatest influence on his generation, the writer and theorist Edouard Glissant, asserted that if Martinique existed at all on the global stage it was because of three writers: Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fano…
Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture
Neither Magical nor Exceptional: The Idea of the Ordinary in Caribbean Studies
Neither Magical nor Exceptional: The Idea of the Ordinary in Caribbean Studies J. Michael Dash But what I am inclined to retain from this visit to the ruins of a theatre is what this woman told me, the kind of legend or myth that spontaneously she had invented. Michel Leiris, "Antilles et poésie des carrefours" I had lost my companions on purpose. I wanted to tiptoe alone through the remains of history. Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past …
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