H Adlai Murdoch
Biographic Data
| ID | 141272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Adlai Murdoch |
| GIVEN NAMES | H Adlai |
| FAMILY NAME | Murdoch |
| SIGNATURE | MURDOCH H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From Antillanité to the Archipelagic: Édouard Glissant’s Linked Insularities of Non-Continental Thought
The pervasive patterns of neocolonialism long at work in the Francophone Caribbean, whereby the islands have been overseas departments of France for over seventy-five years, operate through a strategic metropolitan praxis of prohibition and exclusion that has long undermined a functional framework that enables and valorizes local sociocultural self-affirmation. While France has effectively sought to efface Guadeloupean and Martinican discourses o…
Creolization, Hybridity and Archipelagic Thinking: Interrogating Inscriptions of Postcolonial Agency
The terms creolization and hybridity are neither parallel nor interchangeable. The former cannot be fully understood without taking into account its historical background and geographical context so that creolization is a phenomenon of exchange and transformation that is indispensable to understanding the New World experience. Hybridity, on the other hand, claims to provide a framework for avoiding the binaries of colonialist thinking, enabling a…
The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean , by Nick Nesbitt
Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games , by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
This volume undertakes a comprehensive survey and analysis of visual representations of, and about, the Haitian Revolution in films and video games.Alyssa Sepinwall highlights the distorted departures from the historical record and adulterations of the horrors of slavery that encompassed U.S. and European feature films, documentaries and shorts, French television productions made (and not made) in Haiti, Guadeloupe, and Martinique, and North Amer…
René Ménil: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and the Antillean Subject
René Ménil (1907–2004) was a renowned Martinican essayist, critic, and philosopher who, along with Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, and Edouard Glissant, left an indelible mark on the Franco-Caribbean world of letters and intellectual thought. Ménil saw in surrealism a critical framework, a means to the specific end of exploring and expressing the specificities of the Martinican condition. Ménil assessed Martinique’s pre-war psychological condition th…
Perspectives on Culture and Politics in the French Antilles: Selected Essays, by Celia Britton
Celia Britton's Perspectives on Culture and Politics in the French Antilles is a collection of 12 essays, three of which have not been previously published.The writers treated cover a broad thematic and temporal range, but the bulk of the analyses concern Édouard Glissant.The opening chapter is a detailed reading of changes in Glissant's concept of identity as seen in several of his key writings over a 30-year span.Britton emphasizes that "relati…
Stuart Hall: Diasporic Caribbeanness and discourses of ethnocultural belonging
Hall’s analyses merge the intersecting fields of Black Britishness, diaspora studies, Caribbean studies, postcolonialism, and cultural studies, centering on the ways in which new arrivants and their descendants came to represent their experiences of displacement, exclusion, and cultural duality. The complex modernities of ethnicity, nationality, and belonging outlined by Hall rewrite traditional perspectives on those categories. Hall inscribes th…
Créolité, Creolization, and Contemporary Caribbean Culture
Taking the publication of Éloge de la créolité as a starting point, a number of key questions can be posed: What was the discursive and thematic goal of the Éloge? How does it distinguish itself from creolization? And how do we assess its political stance and its sociocultural accomplishments? One key predecessor, Kamau Brathwaite, suggested that the binarisms undergirding the principle of cultural distinctness on which much of the historical def…
The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora, written by Giselle Liza Anatol
Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies: From Africa to the Antilles
As its title implies, this monograph covers autobiographies originally written in French by authors from a variety of sub-Saharan countries and from the francophone Caribbean. It is divided into six chapters, each of which is devoted to an autobiographical work by a single author, and these are accompanied by an introduction and a conclusion. In the introduction, Sankara lays out both the critical need for such a work and the general critical app…
Édouard Glissant's Creolized World Vision: From Resistance and Relation to Opacité
Édouard Glissant's Creolized World VisionFrom Resistance and Relation to Opacité H. Adlai Murdoch (bio) I It has long been an established fact that Édouard Glissant (September 21, 1928-February 3, 2011) was a pre-eminent, even iconic figure in the Francophone world. With numerous works in the fields of philosophy, literature, poetry, and drama at the time of his death, his renown in the world of arts and letters was beyond question, and he had lo…
Aim Csaire, the Colonial Exhibition, and the modernity of the Black Atlantic
If modernism incorporated experiments with form, style and process, rejecting the longstanding claims to rationality, harmony, and coherence of the Enlightenment, it also provided a platform for the challenge to accepted racialized Atlantic binaries that Negritude would ultimately undertake. As a key moment in Europe's celebratory self-fashioning, the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition lauded the diversity and depth of France's intercontinental statu…
The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
Reviewed by: The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade H. Adlai Murdoch Miller, Christopher L. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. 571. Christopher L. Miller's long-awaited The French Atlantic Triangle is an impressive volume, magisterial in scope and weight, incorporating 390 pages of text and 136 pages of endnotes. It is an interdisci…
Autobiography and Departmentalization in Chamoiseau's Chemin d'école: Representational Strategies and the Martinican Memoir
H. Adlai Murdoch, Autobiography and Departmentalization in Chamoiseau's "Chemin d'école": Representational Strategies and the Martinican Memoir, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Summer, 2009), pp. 16-39
A Legacy of Trauma: Caribbean Slavery, Race, Class, and Contemporary Identity in Abeng
The disruptions and transformations caused by the slave trade are largely demographic and cultural. It was through this extended and traumatic forced population transfer that Caribbean colonies across the board became dominantly black communities. For these island nations and territories, the inescapable fact of their blackness had always marked a tangible and material link with their origins in Africa. Jamaica was home to more rebel- lions than …
All Skin' Teeth Is Not Grin: Performing Caribbean Diasporic Identity in a Postcolonial Metropolitan Frame
"'All Skin' Teeth is not Grin:"Performing Caribbean Diasporic Identity in a Postcolonial Metropolitan Frame H. Adlai Murdoch (bio) Any attempt to come to grips with the limits, implications, and resonances that the term diaspora embodies in and for the Caribbean must begin by confronting the involvement of this term with the varied inscriptions of identity that frame the concept of Caribbeanness. Ineluctably bound up with the complex patterns of …
Rhys's Pieces: Unhomeliness as Arbiter of Caribbean Creolization
Any attempt to trace the many resonances that historically have been attached to the creole figure in Caribbean literature and culture will be inflected by the long and pervading presence of colonialism in the region and its attendant corollary of hierarchical social separation and difference based on perceptions of race. Indeed, the ambivalent desire and subjective misrecognition that lay at the heart of historical writing about colonialism and …
Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
Paget introduces the general reader to Afro-Caribbean philosophy in this ground-breaking work. Since Afro-Caribbean thought is inherently hybrid in nature, he traces the roots of this discourse in traditional African thought and in the Christian and Enlightenment traditions of Western Europe
Jamaica Kincaid: Where the Land Meets the Body
Divided Desire: Biculturality and the Representation of Identity in En attendant le bonheur
Callaloo - Volume 18, Number 3, Summer 1995
Rewriting Writing: Identity, Exile and Renewal in Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia
H. Adlai Murdoch, Rewriting Writing: Identity, Exile and Renewal in Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia, Yale French Studies, No. 83, Post/Colonial Conditions: Exiles, Migrations, and Nomadisms, Volume 2 (1993), pp. 71-92
(Re)Figuring Colonialism: Narratological and Ideological Resistance
notion that history of Third World peoples in general, and of Caribbean people in particular, is history of marginalization and of subjection to colonial discourse succinctly encodes background to struggle of these peoples to establish cultural and discursive identity of their own. appropriation of identity, property, and traditions of colonized by virtue of their representation as intrinsically deprived, benighted and inferior has been shown to …
Severing The (M)Other Connection: The Representation of Cultural Identity in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John
assonance with the world around her, identifies with the image of the other in the form of her mother in an effort to establish a coherent self. This symbiotic relationship appears to function until the falseness of its premise is exposed to her, an event which is specifically precipitated by a primal scene. This, in turn, gives rise to a new perception of the mother as being both racially and culturally different. The mother's creole Dominican p…
Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
Paget introduces the general reader to Afro-Caribbean philosophy in this ground-breaking work. Since Afro-Caribbean thought is inherently hybrid in nature, he traces the roots of this discourse in traditional African thought and in the Christian and Enlightenment traditions of Western Europe
Édouard Glissant's Creolized World Vision: From Resistance and Relation to Opacité
Édouard Glissant's Creolized World VisionFrom Resistance and Relation to Opacité H. Adlai Murdoch (bio) I It has long been an established fact that Édouard Glissant (September 21, 1928-February 3, 2011) was a pre-eminent, even iconic figure in the Francophone world. With numerous works in the fields of philosophy, literature, poetry, and drama at the time of his death, his renown in the world of arts and letters was beyond question, and he had lo…
Rewriting Writing: Identity, Exile and Renewal in Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia
H. Adlai Murdoch, Rewriting Writing: Identity, Exile and Renewal in Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia, Yale French Studies, No. 83, Post/Colonial Conditions: Exiles, Migrations, and Nomadisms, Volume 2 (1993), pp. 71-92
A Legacy of Trauma: Caribbean Slavery, Race, Class, and Contemporary Identity in Abeng
The disruptions and transformations caused by the slave trade are largely demographic and cultural. It was through this extended and traumatic forced population transfer that Caribbean colonies across the board became dominantly black communities. For these island nations and territories, the inescapable fact of their blackness had always marked a tangible and material link with their origins in Africa. Jamaica was home to more rebel- lions than …
Creolization, Hybridity and Archipelagic Thinking: Interrogating Inscriptions of Postcolonial Agency
The terms creolization and hybridity are neither parallel nor interchangeable. The former cannot be fully understood without taking into account its historical background and geographical context so that creolization is a phenomenon of exchange and transformation that is indispensable to understanding the New World experience. Hybridity, on the other hand, claims to provide a framework for avoiding the binaries of colonialist thinking, enabling a…
Autobiography and Departmentalization in Chamoiseau's Chemin d'école: Representational Strategies and the Martinican Memoir
H. Adlai Murdoch, Autobiography and Departmentalization in Chamoiseau's "Chemin d'école": Representational Strategies and the Martinican Memoir, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Summer, 2009), pp. 16-39
(Re)Figuring Colonialism: Narratological and Ideological Resistance
notion that history of Third World peoples in general, and of Caribbean people in particular, is history of marginalization and of subjection to colonial discourse succinctly encodes background to struggle of these peoples to establish cultural and discursive identity of their own. appropriation of identity, property, and traditions of colonized by virtue of their representation as intrinsically deprived, benighted and inferior has been shown to …
Severing The (M)Other Connection: The Representation of Cultural Identity in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John
assonance with the world around her, identifies with the image of the other in the form of her mother in an effort to establish a coherent self. This symbiotic relationship appears to function until the falseness of its premise is exposed to her, an event which is specifically precipitated by a primal scene. This, in turn, gives rise to a new perception of the mother as being both racially and culturally different. The mother's creole Dominican p…
(Re)Figuring Colonialism: Narratological and Ideological Resistance
notion that history of Third World peoples in general, and of Caribbean people in particular, is history of marginalization and of subjection to colonial discourse succinctly encodes background to struggle of these peoples to establish cultural and discursive identity of their own. appropriation of identity, property, and traditions of colonized by virtue of their representation as intrinsically deprived, benighted and inferior has been shown to …
Rewriting Writing: Identity, Exile and Renewal in Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia
H. Adlai Murdoch, Rewriting Writing: Identity, Exile and Renewal in Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia, Yale French Studies, No. 83, Post/Colonial Conditions: Exiles, Migrations, and Nomadisms, Volume 2 (1993), pp. 71-92
Jamaica Kincaid: Where the Land Meets the Body
Divided Desire: Biculturality and the Representation of Identity in En attendant le bonheur
Callaloo - Volume 18, Number 3, Summer 1995
Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
Paget introduces the general reader to Afro-Caribbean philosophy in this ground-breaking work. Since Afro-Caribbean thought is inherently hybrid in nature, he traces the roots of this discourse in traditional African thought and in the Christian and Enlightenment traditions of Western Europe
Rhys's Pieces: Unhomeliness as Arbiter of Caribbean Creolization
Any attempt to trace the many resonances that historically have been attached to the creole figure in Caribbean literature and culture will be inflected by the long and pervading presence of colonialism in the region and its attendant corollary of hierarchical social separation and difference based on perceptions of race. Indeed, the ambivalent desire and subjective misrecognition that lay at the heart of historical writing about colonialism and …
All Skin' Teeth Is Not Grin: Performing Caribbean Diasporic Identity in a Postcolonial Metropolitan Frame
"'All Skin' Teeth is not Grin:"Performing Caribbean Diasporic Identity in a Postcolonial Metropolitan Frame H. Adlai Murdoch (bio) Any attempt to come to grips with the limits, implications, and resonances that the term diaspora embodies in and for the Caribbean must begin by confronting the involvement of this term with the varied inscriptions of identity that frame the concept of Caribbeanness. Ineluctably bound up with the complex patterns of …
Autobiography and Departmentalization in Chamoiseau's Chemin d'école: Representational Strategies and the Martinican Memoir
H. Adlai Murdoch, Autobiography and Departmentalization in Chamoiseau's "Chemin d'école": Representational Strategies and the Martinican Memoir, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Summer, 2009), pp. 16-39
A Legacy of Trauma: Caribbean Slavery, Race, Class, and Contemporary Identity in Abeng
The disruptions and transformations caused by the slave trade are largely demographic and cultural. It was through this extended and traumatic forced population transfer that Caribbean colonies across the board became dominantly black communities. For these island nations and territories, the inescapable fact of their blackness had always marked a tangible and material link with their origins in Africa. Jamaica was home to more rebel- lions than …
The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
Reviewed by: The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade H. Adlai Murdoch Miller, Christopher L. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. 571. Christopher L. Miller's long-awaited The French Atlantic Triangle is an impressive volume, magisterial in scope and weight, incorporating 390 pages of text and 136 pages of endnotes. It is an interdisci…
Aim Csaire, the Colonial Exhibition, and the modernity of the Black Atlantic
If modernism incorporated experiments with form, style and process, rejecting the longstanding claims to rationality, harmony, and coherence of the Enlightenment, it also provided a platform for the challenge to accepted racialized Atlantic binaries that Negritude would ultimately undertake. As a key moment in Europe's celebratory self-fashioning, the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition lauded the diversity and depth of France's intercontinental statu…
Édouard Glissant's Creolized World Vision: From Resistance and Relation to Opacité
Édouard Glissant's Creolized World VisionFrom Resistance and Relation to Opacité H. Adlai Murdoch (bio) I It has long been an established fact that Édouard Glissant (September 21, 1928-February 3, 2011) was a pre-eminent, even iconic figure in the Francophone world. With numerous works in the fields of philosophy, literature, poetry, and drama at the time of his death, his renown in the world of arts and letters was beyond question, and he had lo…
Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies: From Africa to the Antilles
As its title implies, this monograph covers autobiographies originally written in French by authors from a variety of sub-Saharan countries and from the francophone Caribbean. It is divided into six chapters, each of which is devoted to an autobiographical work by a single author, and these are accompanied by an introduction and a conclusion. In the introduction, Sankara lays out both the critical need for such a work and the general critical app…
The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora, written by Giselle Liza Anatol
Créolité, Creolization, and Contemporary Caribbean Culture
Taking the publication of Éloge de la créolité as a starting point, a number of key questions can be posed: What was the discursive and thematic goal of the Éloge? How does it distinguish itself from creolization? And how do we assess its political stance and its sociocultural accomplishments? One key predecessor, Kamau Brathwaite, suggested that the binarisms undergirding the principle of cultural distinctness on which much of the historical def…
Stuart Hall: Diasporic Caribbeanness and discourses of ethnocultural belonging
Hall’s analyses merge the intersecting fields of Black Britishness, diaspora studies, Caribbean studies, postcolonialism, and cultural studies, centering on the ways in which new arrivants and their descendants came to represent their experiences of displacement, exclusion, and cultural duality. The complex modernities of ethnicity, nationality, and belonging outlined by Hall rewrite traditional perspectives on those categories. Hall inscribes th…
René Ménil: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and the Antillean Subject
René Ménil (1907–2004) was a renowned Martinican essayist, critic, and philosopher who, along with Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, and Edouard Glissant, left an indelible mark on the Franco-Caribbean world of letters and intellectual thought. Ménil saw in surrealism a critical framework, a means to the specific end of exploring and expressing the specificities of the Martinican condition. Ménil assessed Martinique’s pre-war psychological condition th…
Perspectives on Culture and Politics in the French Antilles: Selected Essays, by Celia Britton
Celia Britton's Perspectives on Culture and Politics in the French Antilles is a collection of 12 essays, three of which have not been previously published.The writers treated cover a broad thematic and temporal range, but the bulk of the analyses concern Édouard Glissant.The opening chapter is a detailed reading of changes in Glissant's concept of identity as seen in several of his key writings over a 30-year span.Britton emphasizes that "relati…
Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games , by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
This volume undertakes a comprehensive survey and analysis of visual representations of, and about, the Haitian Revolution in films and video games.Alyssa Sepinwall highlights the distorted departures from the historical record and adulterations of the horrors of slavery that encompassed U.S. and European feature films, documentaries and shorts, French television productions made (and not made) in Haiti, Guadeloupe, and Martinique, and North Amer…
Creolization, Hybridity and Archipelagic Thinking: Interrogating Inscriptions of Postcolonial Agency
The terms creolization and hybridity are neither parallel nor interchangeable. The former cannot be fully understood without taking into account its historical background and geographical context so that creolization is a phenomenon of exchange and transformation that is indispensable to understanding the New World experience. Hybridity, on the other hand, claims to provide a framework for avoiding the binaries of colonialist thinking, enabling a…
The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean , by Nick Nesbitt
From Antillanité to the Archipelagic: Édouard Glissant’s Linked Insularities of Non-Continental Thought
The pervasive patterns of neocolonialism long at work in the Francophone Caribbean, whereby the islands have been overseas departments of France for over seventy-five years, operate through a strategic metropolitan praxis of prohibition and exclusion that has long undermined a functional framework that enables and valorizes local sociocultural self-affirmation. While France has effectively sought to efface Guadeloupean and Martinican discourses o…
History (17 works) · Art (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Aesthetics (12 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (11 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Anthropology (8 works)