Joan Dayan
Biographic Data
| ID | 86932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Dayan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Dayan |
| SIGNATURE | DAYAN J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Haiti, History, and the Gods
The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons
Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state—all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order. Examining such troubling cases, this book tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its rules and sanctions make or unm…
A Few Stories about Haiti, or, Stigma Revisited
In revisiting the history of Haiti, this essay demonstrates the powerful presence of this site as both a source of pride and denigration. Taking Frederick Douglass's arrival as minister resident and consul general to the Haitian government of Louis Florvil Hyppolite in 1889 as focus, the analysis deals with the attempted acquisition of the Mole St. Nicholas by the United States, and Douglass's memorial in the final chapters of his Life and Times …
Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies
Nepantla: Views from South - Volume 2, Issue 1, 2001
Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics
For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States. It is viewed as a completed project rather than as a goal to be achieved. Fifteen leading scholars challenge that stasis in Materializing Democracy . They aim to reinvigorate the idea of democracy by placing it in the midst of a contentious political and cultural fray, which, the volume's editors argue, is exactly where it belongs. Drawing on literary criticism, cultur…
Haiti, History, and the Gods
This book charts the cultural imagination of Haiti, not only by reconstructing the island's history, but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored, investigating the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction and fact, text and ritual, discourse and practice. It gives human dimensions to this eighteenth-century French colony and provides a template for understanding the Haiti of today. In ex…
Haiti, History, and the Gods
In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction and fact, text and ritual, discourse and practice. Dayan's ambitious project is a research tour de force that gives human dimensions to this eighteent…
Codes of Law and Bodies of Color
New Literary History - Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 1995
A Receptacle for that Race of Men: Blood, Boundaries, and Mutations of Theory
In Color Line: A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn, published in 1905, William Benjamin Smith, fearing hybridized Dixie resulting from the slightest rill of Negro blood into the veins of the Whites, declared that the South alone stands for blood, for the 'continuous germplasma' of the Caucasian Race. Today, I will speak about blood, boundaries, and terminologies. I want to locate terms in their history so we can begin to understand the implications o…
Haiti, History, and the Gods
Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves
France Reads Haiti: An Interview With Rene Depestre
France Reads Haiti: Rene Depestre's Hadriana dans tous mes reves
Fables of Mind: An Inquiry into Poe's Fiction
This revisionist study of Poe's fiction concentrates on works generally neglected by Poe critics. Operating in reverse chronological order, Joan Dayan begins with a close reading of Poe's Eureka, subtitled Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe and uses this cosmology to examine Poe's method in creating his fiction. This unreadable work, she argues, best exemplifies that method, for in his work, the bizarre, apparently nonsensical, and the …
Finding what will Suffice: John Ashbery's a Wave
A Wave is Ashbery's most startling chronicle of what it is like to think thought through and thereby write a poem that remembers itself.' To enter into this poem is to consider three transits that form a fertile ground for interpretation: Wordsworth's Resolution and Independence (1802), Rimbaud's Memoire (1872), and Whitman's As Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life (1859). In these summation poems each poet repudiates a past self, or perhaps poem, and qu…
Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics
For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States. It is viewed as a completed project rather than as a goal to be achieved. Fifteen leading scholars challenge that stasis in Materializing Democracy . They aim to reinvigorate the idea of democracy by placing it in the midst of a contentious political and cultural fray, which, the volume's editors argue, is exactly where it belongs. Drawing on literary criticism, cultur…
Haiti, History, and the Gods
In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction and fact, text and ritual, discourse and practice. Dayan's ambitious project is a research tour de force that gives human dimensions to this eighteent…
Codes of Law and Bodies of Color
New Literary History - Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 1995
A Receptacle for that Race of Men: Blood, Boundaries, and Mutations of Theory
In Color Line: A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn, published in 1905, William Benjamin Smith, fearing hybridized Dixie resulting from the slightest rill of Negro blood into the veins of the Whites, declared that the South alone stands for blood, for the 'continuous germplasma' of the Caucasian Race. Today, I will speak about blood, boundaries, and terminologies. I want to locate terms in their history so we can begin to understand the implications o…
Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves
France Reads Haiti: An Interview With Rene Depestre
Finding what will Suffice: John Ashbery's a Wave
A Wave is Ashbery's most startling chronicle of what it is like to think thought through and thereby write a poem that remembers itself.' To enter into this poem is to consider three transits that form a fertile ground for interpretation: Wordsworth's Resolution and Independence (1802), Rimbaud's Memoire (1872), and Whitman's As Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life (1859). In these summation poems each poet repudiates a past self, or perhaps poem, and qu…
Fables of Mind: An Inquiry into Poe's Fiction
This revisionist study of Poe's fiction concentrates on works generally neglected by Poe critics. Operating in reverse chronological order, Joan Dayan begins with a close reading of Poe's Eureka, subtitled Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe and uses this cosmology to examine Poe's method in creating his fiction. This unreadable work, she argues, best exemplifies that method, for in his work, the bizarre, apparently nonsensical, and the …
France Reads Haiti: An Interview With Rene Depestre
France Reads Haiti: Rene Depestre's Hadriana dans tous mes reves
Haiti, History, and the Gods
Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves
Codes of Law and Bodies of Color
New Literary History - Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 1995
A Receptacle for that Race of Men: Blood, Boundaries, and Mutations of Theory
In Color Line: A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn, published in 1905, William Benjamin Smith, fearing hybridized Dixie resulting from the slightest rill of Negro blood into the veins of the Whites, declared that the South alone stands for blood, for the 'continuous germplasma' of the Caucasian Race. Today, I will speak about blood, boundaries, and terminologies. I want to locate terms in their history so we can begin to understand the implications o…
Haiti, History, and the Gods
This book charts the cultural imagination of Haiti, not only by reconstructing the island's history, but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored, investigating the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction and fact, text and ritual, discourse and practice. It gives human dimensions to this eighteenth-century French colony and provides a template for understanding the Haiti of today. In ex…
Haiti, History, and the Gods
In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction and fact, text and ritual, discourse and practice. Dayan's ambitious project is a research tour de force that gives human dimensions to this eighteent…
Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies
Nepantla: Views from South - Volume 2, Issue 1, 2001
Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics
For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States. It is viewed as a completed project rather than as a goal to be achieved. Fifteen leading scholars challenge that stasis in Materializing Democracy . They aim to reinvigorate the idea of democracy by placing it in the midst of a contentious political and cultural fray, which, the volume's editors argue, is exactly where it belongs. Drawing on literary criticism, cultur…
A Few Stories about Haiti, or, Stigma Revisited
In revisiting the history of Haiti, this essay demonstrates the powerful presence of this site as both a source of pride and denigration. Taking Frederick Douglass's arrival as minister resident and consul general to the Haitian government of Louis Florvil Hyppolite in 1889 as focus, the analysis deals with the attempted acquisition of the Mole St. Nicholas by the United States, and Douglass's memorial in the final chapters of his Life and Times …
The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons
Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state—all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order. Examining such troubling cases, this book tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its rules and sanctions make or unm…
Haiti, History, and the Gods
History (10 works) · Art (7 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works)