Toni Pressley-Sanon
Biographic Data
| ID | 83341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toni Pressley-Sanon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toni |
| FAMILY NAME | Pressley-Sanon |
| SIGNATURE | PRESSLEY-SANON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Of Bosal and Kongo: Exploring the Evolution of the Vernacular in Contemporary Haiti
In this article, I trace the multiple layers of meaning behind the words “bosal” and “kongo” in contemporary Haiti. I read the sociopolitical origins of the two terms, both of which issue from the slave era, and trouble the attributes that scholars traditionally ascribe to them. I also explore how two Haitian folklore characters, Uncle Bouki and Ti Malis, reflect and comment on historical and contemporary class divisions. Then, using interviews a…
Reading the spirits in Julia Alvarez’s A Wedding in Haiti
Dominican writer Julia Alvarez’s 2012 memoir, A Wedding in Haiti: The Story of a Friendship, documents her first-time travel from the Dominican Republic to Haiti over land in order to attend the wedding of Piti, a young Haitian man who had worked for her and her husband for a number of years. She deploys the literary non-fiction genre of memoir, a genre that is relatively new to her, to explore both the Dominican (collective) relationship with Ha…
Addressing the “Negro Problem”: Rethinking the Coon and the Mammy in King of the Zombies and Revenge of the Zombies
This article explores two 1940s B-horror zombie movies to argue that the revitalization of the “coon” and the “mammy” from the slave era in the early twentieth century was part and parcel of the dominant culture’s efforts to contain and control the “monstrous black” of the white imagination. Furthermore, I posit that the dehumanization and Othering that characterized white America’s treatment of African Americans is not a thing of the past. The a…
Ayiti
Wounds Seen and Unseen: The Workings of Trauma in Raoul Peck's Haitian Corner and Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker
Drawing on literary scholar Lisa Woolfork’s theory of bodily epistemology, this article comparatively discusses Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck’s 1988 film Haitian Corner and Haitian American writer EdwidgeDanticat’s 2004 novel, The Dew Breaker as trauma fiction that deploys both the psyche and the body in explorations of trauma. The two works do so both through their characters and in the form that their narratives take, characterized as they are b…
The Other Side of the Sea by Louis-Philippe Dalembert, and: Memory at Bay by Évelyne Trouillot
Other Side of Sea. By Louis-Philippe Dalembert. Translated by Robert H. McCormick Jr., with foreword by Edwidge Danticat. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. ISBN-10: 0813936470. 121 pp. $22.50 paperback.Memory at Bay. By Evelyne Trouillot. Translated by Paul Curtis Daw, with afterword by Jason Herbeck. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0813938090. 152 pp. $24.50 paperback.Review by Toni Pressley-Sanon…
The Fight for the Nation in Arnold Antonin's Zombi Candidat à la Présidence … ou Les Amours d'un Zombi
Using feminist and Third Cinema theory as a lens, this article argues that, coming as it does from a postcolonial/neocolonial nation, though the film ostensibly focuses on the trials of the male protagonist, Zéphirin, Zombi Candidat à la Présidence ... ou Les Amours d'un Zombi by Haitian filmmaker, Arnold Antonin, draws attention to the struggles of the female characters as representatives of the nation. The Haitian woman's struggle to resist obj…
Up through the cracks: Raoul Peck'sMoloch Tropicaland the ghosts of Haitian history
This article uses spatial metaphors that also hold political and cultural currency in Haiti as a lens through which to read Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck's 2009 feature film Moloch Tropical's depictions of, and reflections and comments on Haiti's socio-political and economic structures historically and contemporarily. The article posits that the film is very much about the ghosts of unresolved histories haunting the present. Through a reading of t…
African market women: Seven life stories from Ghana
Toni Pressley-SanonUniversity at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, [email protected]© 2014, Toni Pressley-Sanon
Susan Vogel, dir. Fold Crumple Crush: The Art of El Anatsui. 2011. 53 minutes plus 28 minutes of shorts. English. U.S. Icarus Films. $29.98
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Jo Menell and Angus Gibson, dirs. Mandela: Son of Africa, Father of a Nation. 1997. 155 minutes. English. South Africa and U.S. Palm Pictures. $19.97
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Exile, Return, Ouidah, and Haiti: Vodun's Workings on the Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié
September 01 2013 Exile, Return, Ouidah, and Haiti: Vodun's Workings on the Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié Toni Pressley-Sanon Toni Pressley-Sanon Toni Pressley-Sanon is an Assistant Professor of Transnational Studies and the Program in African and African-American Studies at SUNY Buffalo. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Toni Pressley-Sanon Toni Pressley-Sanon is …
Jo Menell and Angus Gibson, dirs. Mandela: Son of Africa, Father of a Nation. 1997. 155 minutes. English. South Africa and U.S. Palm Pictures. $19.97
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Exile, Return, Ouidah, and Haiti: Vodun's Workings on the Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié
September 01 2013 Exile, Return, Ouidah, and Haiti: Vodun's Workings on the Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié Toni Pressley-Sanon Toni Pressley-Sanon Toni Pressley-Sanon is an Assistant Professor of Transnational Studies and the Program in African and African-American Studies at SUNY Buffalo. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Toni Pressley-Sanon Toni Pressley-Sanon is …
African market women: Seven life stories from Ghana
Toni Pressley-SanonUniversity at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, [email protected]© 2014, Toni Pressley-Sanon
Susan Vogel, dir. Fold Crumple Crush: The Art of El Anatsui. 2011. 53 minutes plus 28 minutes of shorts. English. U.S. Icarus Films. $29.98
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Jo Menell and Angus Gibson, dirs. Mandela: Son of Africa, Father of a Nation. 1997. 155 minutes. English. South Africa and U.S. Palm Pictures. $19.97
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Fight for the Nation in Arnold Antonin's Zombi Candidat à la Présidence … ou Les Amours d'un Zombi
Using feminist and Third Cinema theory as a lens, this article argues that, coming as it does from a postcolonial/neocolonial nation, though the film ostensibly focuses on the trials of the male protagonist, Zéphirin, Zombi Candidat à la Présidence ... ou Les Amours d'un Zombi by Haitian filmmaker, Arnold Antonin, draws attention to the struggles of the female characters as representatives of the nation. The Haitian woman's struggle to resist obj…
Up through the cracks: Raoul Peck'sMoloch Tropicaland the ghosts of Haitian history
This article uses spatial metaphors that also hold political and cultural currency in Haiti as a lens through which to read Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck's 2009 feature film Moloch Tropical's depictions of, and reflections and comments on Haiti's socio-political and economic structures historically and contemporarily. The article posits that the film is very much about the ghosts of unresolved histories haunting the present. Through a reading of t…
Addressing the “Negro Problem”: Rethinking the Coon and the Mammy in King of the Zombies and Revenge of the Zombies
This article explores two 1940s B-horror zombie movies to argue that the revitalization of the “coon” and the “mammy” from the slave era in the early twentieth century was part and parcel of the dominant culture’s efforts to contain and control the “monstrous black” of the white imagination. Furthermore, I posit that the dehumanization and Othering that characterized white America’s treatment of African Americans is not a thing of the past. The a…
Ayiti
Wounds Seen and Unseen: The Workings of Trauma in Raoul Peck's Haitian Corner and Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker
Drawing on literary scholar Lisa Woolfork’s theory of bodily epistemology, this article comparatively discusses Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck’s 1988 film Haitian Corner and Haitian American writer EdwidgeDanticat’s 2004 novel, The Dew Breaker as trauma fiction that deploys both the psyche and the body in explorations of trauma. The two works do so both through their characters and in the form that their narratives take, characterized as they are b…
The Other Side of the Sea by Louis-Philippe Dalembert, and: Memory at Bay by Évelyne Trouillot
Other Side of Sea. By Louis-Philippe Dalembert. Translated by Robert H. McCormick Jr., with foreword by Edwidge Danticat. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. ISBN-10: 0813936470. 121 pp. $22.50 paperback.Memory at Bay. By Evelyne Trouillot. Translated by Paul Curtis Daw, with afterword by Jason Herbeck. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0813938090. 152 pp. $24.50 paperback.Review by Toni Pressley-Sanon…
Reading the spirits in Julia Alvarez’s A Wedding in Haiti
Dominican writer Julia Alvarez’s 2012 memoir, A Wedding in Haiti: The Story of a Friendship, documents her first-time travel from the Dominican Republic to Haiti over land in order to attend the wedding of Piti, a young Haitian man who had worked for her and her husband for a number of years. She deploys the literary non-fiction genre of memoir, a genre that is relatively new to her, to explore both the Dominican (collective) relationship with Ha…
Of Bosal and Kongo: Exploring the Evolution of the Vernacular in Contemporary Haiti
In this article, I trace the multiple layers of meaning behind the words “bosal” and “kongo” in contemporary Haiti. I read the sociopolitical origins of the two terms, both of which issue from the slave era, and trouble the attributes that scholars traditionally ascribe to them. I also explore how two Haitian folklore characters, Uncle Bouki and Ti Malis, reflect and comment on historical and contemporary class divisions. Then, using interviews a…
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