R Douglas
Biographic Data
| ID | 51641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Douglas |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Douglas |
| SIGNATURE | DOUGLAS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5552-697X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Archiving Ruins and Aftershocks: Myriam Chancy's New Narratives of the Haiti Earthquake
How does Myriam Chancy create new human and humane narratives about the 2010 Haiti earthquake which challenge the dehumanizing stereotypes of global media reporting? Theorizing 'ruination' in relation to this specific Haitian earthquake context, I contrast Chancy's 'reckless optimism' with a tendency of postcolonial melancholy. The article identifies a process of unsilencing the past by building on Michel-Rolph Trouillot's idea of 'silencing' the…
Futures in the Presents: Decolonial Visions of the Haitian Revolution
How to decolonize time from the perspective of the Caribbean, particularly Haiti? This essay tackles the question of decolonial temporalities in narratives of Haitian pasts, presents, and futures. For Caribbean historians, the past of the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) provides a transformative set of coordinates for projecting anti- and decolonial visions. This essay pays special attention to the layered histories and temporal condensations enta…
Aging Bodies in Paradise: A Feminist Analysis of Key West’s Fantasy Fest
Cultural constructions of gender and age may be challenged within politically and socially progressive leisure environments, like Key West, that promote social deviance and out-group acceptance. However, this possibility receives limited scholarly attention. Addressing this gap, our study applies a framework that highlights gender and age as performances and uses interviews ( n = 77) collected in 2017 and 2018 at Key West’s Fantasy Fest, an annua…
Entangled Caribbean rewriting, C.L.R. James, Aimé Césaire, and their books as postcolonial lieux de mémoire
This article argues that books such as C.L
Footloose and fancy-free: Online travel advice to older and younger women
Increasing numbers of women, of all ages, are choosing to travel alone - a trend accompanied by online articles providing advice to them. However, we are aware of only one study examining these articles, and it gave no attention to age. We conduct a content analysis of 75 online articles directed at solo women travelers, including 29 written for older women. Results revealed three themes - regulating risk, letting go, and discovering self. Their …
Making The Black Jacobins: C. L. R. James and the Drama of History
C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins remains one of the great works of the twentieth century and the cornerstone of Haitian revolutionary studies. In Making The Black Jacobins, Rachel Douglas traces the genesis, transformation, and afterlives of James's landmark work across the decades from the 1930s on. Examining the 1938 and 1963 editions of The Black Jacobins, the 1967 play of the same name, and James's 1936 play, Toussaint Louverture-as well a…
Unsilencing the Haitian Revolution: C. L. R. James and The Black Jacobins
Exploring the genesis, transformation and afterlives of The Black Jacobins, this article follows the revision trail of James's evolving interest in Toussaint Louverture. How does James "show" as drama versus "tell" as history? Building on Michel-Rolph Trouillot's idea of "silencing the past," this article argues that James engages in an equally active and transitive reverse process of unsilencing the past. James's own unsilencing of certain negat…
Bounded Explorers: Online Constructions of Solo Women Travelers
Women have navigated the world with much less freedom than men—with restrictions particularly great for their solo, or independent, travel. Although much research documents women’s experiences of these constraints, less is known about travel media’s framing of women as solo travelers—with online media an especially neglected research area. Drawing on a leisure constraints perspective, our study examines differences in online travel articles (n = …
Explaining gender differences in self-regulated driving: What roles do health limitations and driving alternatives play
One of the strongest and most consistent predictors of self-regulated driving is gender, with women more likely than men to limit their driving in situations like bad weather or at night. However, studies have focused more on documenting these gender patterns than on explaining the processes underlying them, which may vary in their implications for transportation, health and ageing policy. Our study addresses this issue by examining two potential…
Evacuating People and Their Pets: Older Floridians’ Need for and Proximity to Pet-Friendly Shelters
High pet shelter need coupled with low availability exacerbates older adults' heightened vulnerability during Florida's hurricane season
Dramatic Beginnings of The Black Jacobins
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Writing the Haitian Earthquake and Creating Archives
HOW TO TELL THE STORY OF THE HAITIAN EARTHQUAKE? Ever since 4:53 p.m. on 12 January 2010, this is the question many of Haiti's writers have been asking. In the face of such a catastrophe with widespread death, destruction and suffering, what can writers do? In terms of aftershocks, how have the thematics and representational form of Haitian writing developed in the wake of this seismic event? This article examines responses in Haitian writing to …
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Theory versus Practice: On the Postcolonial Marginalization of Haitian Literature
This review engages with fundamental questions regarding postcolonial canon formation and the marginalization of the Haitian Spiralist writers, the theory-centrism of postcolonial criticism, and “showing” versus “telling”—issues raised by Kaiama L. Glover's Haiti Unbound. Using as a point of departure Glover's key notions of “not-Paris” and “ex-centricity” regarding the critical reception of the Spiralists, this essay responds, Why only not-Paris…
Rewriting America/Dany Laferrière's Rewriting
Contemporary Art as Cultural Product in the Context of Haiti
This article focuses on the visual arts in contemporary Haiti, providing a rare insight into the current creative context. Countering a customary focus on history painting and Vodou-inspired or magical realist work, it explores the evolution of artistic production over the past two decades, situating developments in their socioeconomic and political context and considering them in relation to the international art trade. Central to the study is t…
Haitian Revolutions in Literature: The Case of Linguistic and Visual Inventiveness in Frankétienne
This article argues that there is a conspicuous lack of representations of the Haitian revolution in most contemporary Haitian writing. Rather than writing explicitly about the Revolution, many Haitian writers “perform” revolutions in their own work. Frankétienne's work provides us with a particularly good example of such revolutions through the visual and linguistic inventiveness that characterizes his oeuvre in general and his practice of rewri…
Program schedule
had a significant impact on the creation, development, and direction of research in dental anthropology in the U.S. and internationally. We have selected a small, but international group of dental anthropologists whose research methods and interests reflect, and have been impacted by Dahlberg's influence. The unifying theme of this symposium, dental morphology and evolution, is broadly conceived to include papers on dental genetics, development, …
The Electoral Effects of House Committee Assignments
The Electoral Effects of House Committee Assignments
Contemporary Art as Cultural Product in the Context of Haiti
This article focuses on the visual arts in contemporary Haiti, providing a rare insight into the current creative context. Countering a customary focus on history painting and Vodou-inspired or magical realist work, it explores the evolution of artistic production over the past two decades, situating developments in their socioeconomic and political context and considering them in relation to the international art trade. Central to the study is t…
Unsilencing the Haitian Revolution: C. L. R. James and The Black Jacobins
Exploring the genesis, transformation and afterlives of The Black Jacobins, this article follows the revision trail of James's evolving interest in Toussaint Louverture. How does James "show" as drama versus "tell" as history? Building on Michel-Rolph Trouillot's idea of "silencing the past," this article argues that James engages in an equally active and transitive reverse process of unsilencing the past. James's own unsilencing of certain negat…
Bounded Explorers: Online Constructions of Solo Women Travelers
Women have navigated the world with much less freedom than men—with restrictions particularly great for their solo, or independent, travel. Although much research documents women’s experiences of these constraints, less is known about travel media’s framing of women as solo travelers—with online media an especially neglected research area. Drawing on a leisure constraints perspective, our study examines differences in online travel articles (n = …
Explaining gender differences in self-regulated driving: What roles do health limitations and driving alternatives play
One of the strongest and most consistent predictors of self-regulated driving is gender, with women more likely than men to limit their driving in situations like bad weather or at night. However, studies have focused more on documenting these gender patterns than on explaining the processes underlying them, which may vary in their implications for transportation, health and ageing policy. Our study addresses this issue by examining two potential…
Evacuating People and Their Pets: Older Floridians’ Need for and Proximity to Pet-Friendly Shelters
High pet shelter need coupled with low availability exacerbates older adults' heightened vulnerability during Florida's hurricane season
The Electoral Effects of House Committee Assignments
Program schedule
had a significant impact on the creation, development, and direction of research in dental anthropology in the U.S. and internationally. We have selected a small, but international group of dental anthropologists whose research methods and interests reflect, and have been impacted by Dahlberg's influence. The unifying theme of this symposium, dental morphology and evolution, is broadly conceived to include papers on dental genetics, development, …
Contemporary Art as Cultural Product in the Context of Haiti
This article focuses on the visual arts in contemporary Haiti, providing a rare insight into the current creative context. Countering a customary focus on history painting and Vodou-inspired or magical realist work, it explores the evolution of artistic production over the past two decades, situating developments in their socioeconomic and political context and considering them in relation to the international art trade. Central to the study is t…
Haitian Revolutions in Literature: The Case of Linguistic and Visual Inventiveness in Frankétienne
This article argues that there is a conspicuous lack of representations of the Haitian revolution in most contemporary Haitian writing. Rather than writing explicitly about the Revolution, many Haitian writers “perform” revolutions in their own work. Frankétienne's work provides us with a particularly good example of such revolutions through the visual and linguistic inventiveness that characterizes his oeuvre in general and his practice of rewri…
Rewriting America/Dany Laferrière's Rewriting
Theory versus Practice: On the Postcolonial Marginalization of Haitian Literature
This review engages with fundamental questions regarding postcolonial canon formation and the marginalization of the Haitian Spiralist writers, the theory-centrism of postcolonial criticism, and “showing” versus “telling”—issues raised by Kaiama L. Glover's Haiti Unbound. Using as a point of departure Glover's key notions of “not-Paris” and “ex-centricity” regarding the critical reception of the Spiralists, this essay responds, Why only not-Paris…
Livres reçus
Dramatic Beginnings of The Black Jacobins
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Writing the Haitian Earthquake and Creating Archives
HOW TO TELL THE STORY OF THE HAITIAN EARTHQUAKE? Ever since 4:53 p.m. on 12 January 2010, this is the question many of Haiti's writers have been asking. In the face of such a catastrophe with widespread death, destruction and suffering, what can writers do? In terms of aftershocks, how have the thematics and representational form of Haitian writing developed in the wake of this seismic event? This article examines responses in Haitian writing to …
Evacuating People and Their Pets: Older Floridians’ Need for and Proximity to Pet-Friendly Shelters
High pet shelter need coupled with low availability exacerbates older adults' heightened vulnerability during Florida's hurricane season
Explaining gender differences in self-regulated driving: What roles do health limitations and driving alternatives play
One of the strongest and most consistent predictors of self-regulated driving is gender, with women more likely than men to limit their driving in situations like bad weather or at night. However, studies have focused more on documenting these gender patterns than on explaining the processes underlying them, which may vary in their implications for transportation, health and ageing policy. Our study addresses this issue by examining two potential…
Footloose and fancy-free: Online travel advice to older and younger women
Increasing numbers of women, of all ages, are choosing to travel alone - a trend accompanied by online articles providing advice to them. However, we are aware of only one study examining these articles, and it gave no attention to age. We conduct a content analysis of 75 online articles directed at solo women travelers, including 29 written for older women. Results revealed three themes - regulating risk, letting go, and discovering self. Their …
Making The Black Jacobins: C. L. R. James and the Drama of History
C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins remains one of the great works of the twentieth century and the cornerstone of Haitian revolutionary studies. In Making The Black Jacobins, Rachel Douglas traces the genesis, transformation, and afterlives of James's landmark work across the decades from the 1930s on. Examining the 1938 and 1963 editions of The Black Jacobins, the 1967 play of the same name, and James's 1936 play, Toussaint Louverture-as well a…
Unsilencing the Haitian Revolution: C. L. R. James and The Black Jacobins
Exploring the genesis, transformation and afterlives of The Black Jacobins, this article follows the revision trail of James's evolving interest in Toussaint Louverture. How does James "show" as drama versus "tell" as history? Building on Michel-Rolph Trouillot's idea of "silencing the past," this article argues that James engages in an equally active and transitive reverse process of unsilencing the past. James's own unsilencing of certain negat…
Bounded Explorers: Online Constructions of Solo Women Travelers
Women have navigated the world with much less freedom than men—with restrictions particularly great for their solo, or independent, travel. Although much research documents women’s experiences of these constraints, less is known about travel media’s framing of women as solo travelers—with online media an especially neglected research area. Drawing on a leisure constraints perspective, our study examines differences in online travel articles (n = …
Entangled Caribbean rewriting, C.L.R. James, Aimé Césaire, and their books as postcolonial lieux de mémoire
This article argues that books such as C.L
Futures in the Presents: Decolonial Visions of the Haitian Revolution
How to decolonize time from the perspective of the Caribbean, particularly Haiti? This essay tackles the question of decolonial temporalities in narratives of Haitian pasts, presents, and futures. For Caribbean historians, the past of the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) provides a transformative set of coordinates for projecting anti- and decolonial visions. This essay pays special attention to the layered histories and temporal condensations enta…
Aging Bodies in Paradise: A Feminist Analysis of Key West’s Fantasy Fest
Cultural constructions of gender and age may be challenged within politically and socially progressive leisure environments, like Key West, that promote social deviance and out-group acceptance. However, this possibility receives limited scholarly attention. Addressing this gap, our study applies a framework that highlights gender and age as performances and uses interviews ( n = 77) collected in 2017 and 2018 at Key West’s Fantasy Fest, an annua…
Archiving Ruins and Aftershocks: Myriam Chancy's New Narratives of the Haiti Earthquake
How does Myriam Chancy create new human and humane narratives about the 2010 Haiti earthquake which challenge the dehumanizing stereotypes of global media reporting? Theorizing 'ruination' in relation to this specific Haitian earthquake context, I contrast Chancy's 'reckless optimism' with a tendency of postcolonial melancholy. The article identifies a process of unsilencing the past by building on Michel-Rolph Trouillot's idea of 'silencing' the…
Art (10 works) · History (9 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)