Robert Sapp
Biographic Data
| ID | 1436577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Sapp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Sapp |
| SIGNATURE | SAPP R |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Charleston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Between life and death
This article draws on the spectral representation of the migrant experience in the graphic novel Les Ombres (2013). Specifically, we are interested in how the medium and its ability to play with time and space create spectral scenes that disrupt the traditional flow of time to convey aspects of the migrant experience that resist narrative. The figure of the ghost reinforces the text’s formal elements that emphasise fluidity and permeability to mo…
American Disaster Stories
In a jarring instant, the attack on the World Trade Center ushered America and the world into the post-9/11 era. Likewise, in a matter of minutes, a devastating earthquake embedded January 12, 2010 in Haitian collective memory as a catastrophic day of loss. In juxtaposing the attack on the World Trade Center with the 2010 earthquake, Évelyne Trouillot’s 2013 novel, Absences sans frontières, invites a comparison that asks how catastrophe is lived …
Writing against the Record
This article considers how voice and body unite in Marie-Célie Agnant's novel Le Livre d'Emma to resist the exclusion from the archive that threatens the plurivocal oral history Emma seeks to transmit. Beginning with remarks on a colonial-era ledger, this study relies on Diana Taylor's understanding of archival knowledge and embodied practice to read Emma's transmission of oral histories to her interpreter, Flore, as a performance in which a corp…
The Talking Dead
The Talking Dead:Narrating the Past in Yanick Lahens's Bain de lune Robert Sapp Dead men tell no tales. However, in Haitian author Yanick Lahens's fourth novel, Bain de lune (2014), the voice of a recently murdered woman insists on being heard. What is remarkable in Bain de lune is not, however, that the dead do indeed tell tales but rather how the tale is told. In the novel, Lahens employs two narrative voices: the first-person (je) narrator, li…
The Talking Dead
The Talking Dead:Narrating the Past in Yanick Lahens's Bain de lune Robert Sapp Dead men tell no tales. However, in Haitian author Yanick Lahens's fourth novel, Bain de lune (2014), the voice of a recently murdered woman insists on being heard. What is remarkable in Bain de lune is not, however, that the dead do indeed tell tales but rather how the tale is told. In the novel, Lahens employs two narrative voices: the first-person (je) narrator, li…
The Talking Dead
The Talking Dead:Narrating the Past in Yanick Lahens's Bain de lune Robert Sapp Dead men tell no tales. However, in Haitian author Yanick Lahens's fourth novel, Bain de lune (2014), the voice of a recently murdered woman insists on being heard. What is remarkable in Bain de lune is not, however, that the dead do indeed tell tales but rather how the tale is told. In the novel, Lahens employs two narrative voices: the first-person (je) narrator, li…
American Disaster Stories
In a jarring instant, the attack on the World Trade Center ushered America and the world into the post-9/11 era. Likewise, in a matter of minutes, a devastating earthquake embedded January 12, 2010 in Haitian collective memory as a catastrophic day of loss. In juxtaposing the attack on the World Trade Center with the 2010 earthquake, Évelyne Trouillot’s 2013 novel, Absences sans frontières, invites a comparison that asks how catastrophe is lived …
Writing against the Record
This article considers how voice and body unite in Marie-Célie Agnant's novel Le Livre d'Emma to resist the exclusion from the archive that threatens the plurivocal oral history Emma seeks to transmit. Beginning with remarks on a colonial-era ledger, this study relies on Diana Taylor's understanding of archival knowledge and embodied practice to read Emma's transmission of oral histories to her interpreter, Flore, as a performance in which a corp…
Between life and death
This article draws on the spectral representation of the migrant experience in the graphic novel Les Ombres (2013). Specifically, we are interested in how the medium and its ability to play with time and space create spectral scenes that disrupt the traditional flow of time to convey aspects of the migrant experience that resist narrative. The figure of the ghost reinforces the text’s formal elements that emphasise fluidity and permeability to mo…
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