Robyn Cope
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robyn Cope |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Cope |
| SIGNATURE | COPE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Binghamton Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Binghamton NY U.S.A. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Désirée Congo by Évelyne Trouillot (review)
Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction, by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat , by Maia L. Butler, Joanna Davis-McElligatt & Megan Feifer (eds.)
Blue by Emmelie Prophète
Reviewed by: Blue by Emmelie Prophète Robyn Cope Emmelie Prophète Blue Trans. Tina Kover. Seattle. Amazon Crossing. 2022. 128 pages. EMMELIE PROPHÈTE'S Blue is a study in liminality and alienation. Blue is set in a Miami airport, a liminal space where the narrator awaits a flight back to Haiti after attending her aunt's funeral in Florida. Seeking to make some sense of this foreign burial, the narrator retraces her maternal line's intergeneration…
We are your Neighbors: Edwidge Danticat's New Narrative for Haiti
We are your Neighbors":Edwidge Danticat's New Narrative for Haiti Robyn Cope In the wake of the world's ruinously misguided humanitarian response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, it became clear that widespread and deeply held notions of Haitian exceptionalism continued to plague Haiti's relationship with the rest of the world.1 As a result, many Haitian and Diaspora authors and scholars called for new narratives for Haiti that inspire neither ad…
Writing Haiti Global: Food and Fascism in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones
Edwidge Danticat's 1998 work of historical fiction, The Farming of Bones (New York: Penguin Books, 1998), critiques the dysfunctional “family” of social classes and ethnic groups who live together in the Dominican Republic just across the river from Haiti during the 1930s. The novel’s climax is the so-called “Parsley Massacre” of 1937, during which fascist dictator General Trujillo’s army murdered 12,000 Haitians living on Dominican soil. To a la…
Gagging on égalité: French culinary imperialism on the island of Reunion in Axel Gauvin’s Faims d’enfance
In Axel Gauvin’s 1987 novel, Faims d’enfance, food aversions sketch out the lines of finely nuanced Reunionese identities, as an adolescent of Tamil descent and his poor white classmates find themselves gagging on the égalité they are served in their rural school’s cafeteria in 1958. Using Laurent Médéa’s 2010 work on neo-colonialism in departmentalised Reunion and Laurence Tibère’s 2009 study of the role of foodways in structuring Reunion’s mult…
We are your Neighbors: Edwidge Danticat's New Narrative for Haiti
We are your Neighbors":Edwidge Danticat's New Narrative for Haiti Robyn Cope In the wake of the world's ruinously misguided humanitarian response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, it became clear that widespread and deeply held notions of Haitian exceptionalism continued to plague Haiti's relationship with the rest of the world.1 As a result, many Haitian and Diaspora authors and scholars called for new narratives for Haiti that inspire neither ad…
Writing Haiti Global: Food and Fascism in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones
Edwidge Danticat's 1998 work of historical fiction, The Farming of Bones (New York: Penguin Books, 1998), critiques the dysfunctional “family” of social classes and ethnic groups who live together in the Dominican Republic just across the river from Haiti during the 1930s. The novel’s climax is the so-called “Parsley Massacre” of 1937, during which fascist dictator General Trujillo’s army murdered 12,000 Haitians living on Dominican soil. To a la…
Gagging on égalité: French culinary imperialism on the island of Reunion in Axel Gauvin’s Faims d’enfance
In Axel Gauvin’s 1987 novel, Faims d’enfance, food aversions sketch out the lines of finely nuanced Reunionese identities, as an adolescent of Tamil descent and his poor white classmates find themselves gagging on the égalité they are served in their rural school’s cafeteria in 1958. Using Laurent Médéa’s 2010 work on neo-colonialism in departmentalised Reunion and Laurence Tibère’s 2009 study of the role of foodways in structuring Reunion’s mult…
We are your Neighbors: Edwidge Danticat's New Narrative for Haiti
We are your Neighbors":Edwidge Danticat's New Narrative for Haiti Robyn Cope In the wake of the world's ruinously misguided humanitarian response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, it became clear that widespread and deeply held notions of Haitian exceptionalism continued to plague Haiti's relationship with the rest of the world.1 As a result, many Haitian and Diaspora authors and scholars called for new narratives for Haiti that inspire neither ad…
Blue by Emmelie Prophète
Reviewed by: Blue by Emmelie Prophète Robyn Cope Emmelie Prophète Blue Trans. Tina Kover. Seattle. Amazon Crossing. 2022. 128 pages. EMMELIE PROPHÈTE'S Blue is a study in liminality and alienation. Blue is set in a Miami airport, a liminal space where the narrator awaits a flight back to Haiti after attending her aunt's funeral in Florida. Seeking to make some sense of this foreign burial, the narrator retraces her maternal line's intergeneration…
Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat , by Maia L. Butler, Joanna Davis-McElligatt & Megan Feifer (eds.)
Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction, by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
Désirée Congo by Évelyne Trouillot (review)
Sociology (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works)