Kaiama L Glover
Biographic Data
| ID | 153120 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kaiama L Glover |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kaiama L |
| FAMILY NAME | Glover |
| SIGNATURE | GLOVER K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barnard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction
Caribbean Futures in Black DH
The author reflects upon the intersection of Caribbean studies and Black DH, exploring issues of hierarchies and Eurocentricity, as well as recent conferences and projects which exist in the aforementioned intersection
New Directions in Feminism and Global Race Studies: A Book Conversation
This roundtable stems from a Zoom event, “New Directions in Feminism and Global Race Studies (a Book Conversation)” with authors Tiffany N. Florvil, Kaiama L. Glover, Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Katherine M. Marino, Robin Mitchell, and Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué, hosted by Samantha Pinto. These scholars discussed their recently published books, which expand how we think about transnational feminism and global Black feminisms in the Americas…
The Digital Black Atlantic
This timely collection of essays about the relationship between digital humanities and Black Atlantic studies offers critical insights into race, migration, media, and scholarly knowledge production. It spans the African diasporaâ s rangeâ from Africa to North America, Europe, and the Caribbeanâ while its essayists span academic fieldsâ from history and literary studies to musicology, game studies, and library and information studies
The francophone world was set ablaze: Pan-African intellectuals, European interlocutors and the global Cold War
By the mid-1930s, migration from the French colonies had brought Afro-intellectuals into the heart of political and artistic conversations in the metropoles of Europe and had created imbricated spaces of heated debate. Coming from various nations in Africa and the Americas, the interlocutors in these debates grappled with their fraught relationship to imperial centres while addressing questions specific to their diverse national contexts and raci…
A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being
The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism
Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism
The Haiti reader: History, Culture, Politics
While Haiti established the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere and was the first black country to gain independence from European colonizers, its history is not well known in the Anglophone world. The Haiti Reader introduces readers to Haiti's dynamic history and culture from the viewpoint of Haitians from all walks of life. Its dozens of selections--most of which appear here in English for the first time--constitute representati…
Beyond the Post|Colonial Canon: A Pedagogical Approach to Embodiment in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother
Is most writing on some level—large or small—autobiographical, whether it be emotional autobiography or straight out borrowing from our lives?—Edwidge Danticat, Contemporary NovelistsJamaica Kincai
American Imperialism’s Undead
Rafe Dalleo, American Imperialism's Undead. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2016. 256 pp.The premise of American Imperialism's Undead is the extent to and the manner by which the United States's occupation of has been absented from - even disavowed - our understandings of regional American history, despite the occupation's enormous influence on writers, theorists, activists, and other Caribbean social actors of the anti-colonia…
Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865, written by Marlene L. Daut
Flesh Like One's Own: Benign Denials of Legitimate Complaint
This essay looks pointedly at a broad phenomenon wherein ostensibly benign discourses-from the news media to the Hollywood film industry to humanitarian aid-grant permission for North Atlantic denial of human proximity to peoples of the so-called global South. Taking the figure of the (Haitian) zombie as pivot point, the essay reflects on the continuity between dehumanized discursive and visual representations of (postearthquake) Haitians, sub-Sa…
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human As Praxis
Katherine McKittrick’s edited volume Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis is, as its title makes plain, rooted in the concept of praxis. This is a concept that, for Wynter, involves a vital ethic – vital, as in a matter of life and death. The volume is comprised of a lengthy conversation between Wynter and McKittrick alongside essays by scholars working within a variety of conceptual frames. It is out of this dialogic space that the foundation…
Les Possédés de la pleine lune by Jean-Claude Fignolé (review)
"Black" Radicalism in Haiti and the Disorderly Feminine: The Case of Marie Vieux Chauvet
This essay reflects on Haitian radicalism by looking at the life and the works of novelist Marie Vieux Chauvet (1916–73). Though increasingly a subject of interest for scholars of Haitian women's literature and of Haitian feminism, Chauvet's work is only rarely considered alongside that of more politically visible figures such as Jacques Roumain, Jacques-Stephen Alexis, and René Depestre. Chauvet's exceptionalized status has much to do with her n…
Translating the Caribbean
These introductory remarks frame the special section “Translating the Caribbean” and discuss the impetus behind the project as well as its future iterations. Each of the five essays in the special section is outlined in its broad strokes, and specific reference is made to Edouard Glissant’s Caribbean Discourse , Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks , and Lawrence Venuti’s Rethinking Translation and The Translator’s Invisibility
Confronting the Communal: Maryse Condé's Challenge to New World Orders in Moi, Tituba
Confronting the CommunalMaryse Condé's Challenge to New World Orders in Moi, Tituba Kaiama Glover In her 1986 novel Moi, Tituba, sorcière . . . Noire de Salem, Guadeloupean writer and theorist Maryse Condé rewrites and recontextualizes the events of the 1692 Salem witch trials by focusing her attention on one of the incident's most central, yet most marginalized, players—the West Indian slave-woman Tituba. Inspired and "permitted" by Tituba's dis…
New Narratives of Haiti; or, How to Empathize with a Zombie
The 2010 earthquake has given rise to and put into wide(r) circulation a narrative very much of a piece with the long-standing discourse of Haitian singularity. This recent, though not new, narrative is premised not only on the notion of Haiti's endless suffering but also on a concomitant notion of the Haitian people's endless capacity for suffering. Furthering the trope of Haitian resilience, this narrative functions in tandem with that of Haiti…
Tituba's Fall: Maryse Condé's Counter-narrative of the Female Slave Self
The Ambivalent Transnationalism of a Literature-World-in French
In this essay I explore the generic limitations of the “Pour une littérature-monde en français” manifesto. Looking at certain of the document's structural and thematic stumbling blocks, I examine the essential dilemmas that reside at the heart of all postcolonial literary production and consider alternative responses to the issues of belonging and cultural identity evoked in the manifesto. I note in particular the absence of Haitian Spiralist wri…
Books
"The consequences of "not-Paris
Postcolonial modernity has meant the creation of a very unusual set of circumstances for writers of the French‐speaking Caribbean. Called upon to insert themselves forcibly into a space from which, historically, they have been excluded, many of these writers have sharpened their revolutionary horns in Paris, political and cultural capital of the former imperial power. Indeed, throughout the 20th century, Paris has been a veritable inevitability f…
A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being
Flesh Like One's Own: Benign Denials of Legitimate Complaint
This essay looks pointedly at a broad phenomenon wherein ostensibly benign discourses-from the news media to the Hollywood film industry to humanitarian aid-grant permission for North Atlantic denial of human proximity to peoples of the so-called global South. Taking the figure of the (Haitian) zombie as pivot point, the essay reflects on the continuity between dehumanized discursive and visual representations of (postearthquake) Haitians, sub-Sa…
New Narratives of Haiti; or, How to Empathize with a Zombie
The 2010 earthquake has given rise to and put into wide(r) circulation a narrative very much of a piece with the long-standing discourse of Haitian singularity. This recent, though not new, narrative is premised not only on the notion of Haiti's endless suffering but also on a concomitant notion of the Haitian people's endless capacity for suffering. Furthering the trope of Haitian resilience, this narrative functions in tandem with that of Haiti…
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human As Praxis
Katherine McKittrick’s edited volume Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis is, as its title makes plain, rooted in the concept of praxis. This is a concept that, for Wynter, involves a vital ethic – vital, as in a matter of life and death. The volume is comprised of a lengthy conversation between Wynter and McKittrick alongside essays by scholars working within a variety of conceptual frames. It is out of this dialogic space that the foundation…
"The consequences of "not-Paris
Postcolonial modernity has meant the creation of a very unusual set of circumstances for writers of the French‐speaking Caribbean. Called upon to insert themselves forcibly into a space from which, historically, they have been excluded, many of these writers have sharpened their revolutionary horns in Paris, political and cultural capital of the former imperial power. Indeed, throughout the 20th century, Paris has been a veritable inevitability f…
The Ambivalent Transnationalism of a Literature-World-in French
In this essay I explore the generic limitations of the “Pour une littérature-monde en français” manifesto. Looking at certain of the document's structural and thematic stumbling blocks, I examine the essential dilemmas that reside at the heart of all postcolonial literary production and consider alternative responses to the issues of belonging and cultural identity evoked in the manifesto. I note in particular the absence of Haitian Spiralist wri…
Books
Tituba's Fall: Maryse Condé's Counter-narrative of the Female Slave Self
Confronting the Communal: Maryse Condé's Challenge to New World Orders in Moi, Tituba
Confronting the CommunalMaryse Condé's Challenge to New World Orders in Moi, Tituba Kaiama Glover In her 1986 novel Moi, Tituba, sorcière . . . Noire de Salem, Guadeloupean writer and theorist Maryse Condé rewrites and recontextualizes the events of the 1692 Salem witch trials by focusing her attention on one of the incident's most central, yet most marginalized, players—the West Indian slave-woman Tituba. Inspired and "permitted" by Tituba's dis…
New Narratives of Haiti; or, How to Empathize with a Zombie
The 2010 earthquake has given rise to and put into wide(r) circulation a narrative very much of a piece with the long-standing discourse of Haitian singularity. This recent, though not new, narrative is premised not only on the notion of Haiti's endless suffering but also on a concomitant notion of the Haitian people's endless capacity for suffering. Furthering the trope of Haitian resilience, this narrative functions in tandem with that of Haiti…
Les Possédés de la pleine lune by Jean-Claude Fignolé (review)
"Black" Radicalism in Haiti and the Disorderly Feminine: The Case of Marie Vieux Chauvet
This essay reflects on Haitian radicalism by looking at the life and the works of novelist Marie Vieux Chauvet (1916–73). Though increasingly a subject of interest for scholars of Haitian women's literature and of Haitian feminism, Chauvet's work is only rarely considered alongside that of more politically visible figures such as Jacques Roumain, Jacques-Stephen Alexis, and René Depestre. Chauvet's exceptionalized status has much to do with her n…
Translating the Caribbean
These introductory remarks frame the special section “Translating the Caribbean” and discuss the impetus behind the project as well as its future iterations. Each of the five essays in the special section is outlined in its broad strokes, and specific reference is made to Edouard Glissant’s Caribbean Discourse , Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks , and Lawrence Venuti’s Rethinking Translation and The Translator’s Invisibility
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human As Praxis
Katherine McKittrick’s edited volume Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis is, as its title makes plain, rooted in the concept of praxis. This is a concept that, for Wynter, involves a vital ethic – vital, as in a matter of life and death. The volume is comprised of a lengthy conversation between Wynter and McKittrick alongside essays by scholars working within a variety of conceptual frames. It is out of this dialogic space that the foundation…
American Imperialism’s Undead
Rafe Dalleo, American Imperialism's Undead. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2016. 256 pp.The premise of American Imperialism's Undead is the extent to and the manner by which the United States's occupation of has been absented from - even disavowed - our understandings of regional American history, despite the occupation's enormous influence on writers, theorists, activists, and other Caribbean social actors of the anti-colonia…
Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865, written by Marlene L. Daut
Flesh Like One's Own: Benign Denials of Legitimate Complaint
This essay looks pointedly at a broad phenomenon wherein ostensibly benign discourses-from the news media to the Hollywood film industry to humanitarian aid-grant permission for North Atlantic denial of human proximity to peoples of the so-called global South. Taking the figure of the (Haitian) zombie as pivot point, the essay reflects on the continuity between dehumanized discursive and visual representations of (postearthquake) Haitians, sub-Sa…
Beyond the Post|Colonial Canon: A Pedagogical Approach to Embodiment in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother
Is most writing on some level—large or small—autobiographical, whether it be emotional autobiography or straight out borrowing from our lives?—Edwidge Danticat, Contemporary NovelistsJamaica Kincai
The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism
Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism
The Haiti reader: History, Culture, Politics
While Haiti established the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere and was the first black country to gain independence from European colonizers, its history is not well known in the Anglophone world. The Haiti Reader introduces readers to Haiti's dynamic history and culture from the viewpoint of Haitians from all walks of life. Its dozens of selections--most of which appear here in English for the first time--constitute representati…
The Digital Black Atlantic
This timely collection of essays about the relationship between digital humanities and Black Atlantic studies offers critical insights into race, migration, media, and scholarly knowledge production. It spans the African diasporaâ s rangeâ from Africa to North America, Europe, and the Caribbeanâ while its essayists span academic fieldsâ from history and literary studies to musicology, game studies, and library and information studies
The francophone world was set ablaze: Pan-African intellectuals, European interlocutors and the global Cold War
By the mid-1930s, migration from the French colonies had brought Afro-intellectuals into the heart of political and artistic conversations in the metropoles of Europe and had created imbricated spaces of heated debate. Coming from various nations in Africa and the Americas, the interlocutors in these debates grappled with their fraught relationship to imperial centres while addressing questions specific to their diverse national contexts and raci…
A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being
Caribbean Futures in Black DH
The author reflects upon the intersection of Caribbean studies and Black DH, exploring issues of hierarchies and Eurocentricity, as well as recent conferences and projects which exist in the aforementioned intersection
New Directions in Feminism and Global Race Studies: A Book Conversation
This roundtable stems from a Zoom event, “New Directions in Feminism and Global Race Studies (a Book Conversation)” with authors Tiffany N. Florvil, Kaiama L. Glover, Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Katherine M. Marino, Robin Mitchell, and Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué, hosted by Samantha Pinto. These scholars discussed their recently published books, which expand how we think about transnational feminism and global Black feminisms in the Americas…
Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction
Sociology (14 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (12 works) · Art (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · History (9 works) · History (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)