M Munro
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 66248 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M Munro |
| PRENOMES | M |
| SOBRENOME | Munro |
| ASSINATURA | MUNRO M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2921-5585 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1963 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Marlene L. Daut , Awakening the Ashes
Voodoo
The Other Americans
This article engages with the legacy of a generation of scholars working at the University of the West Indies (UWI), principally at Mona, Jamaica, in the late 1960s. Drawing on interviews with some of the scholars, the article argues that the UWI generation was pioneering in its teaching of and research into Caribbean writing in French, and that it is a key element in the evolution of Francophone Postcolonial Studies more generally. Framed by Dav…
The broken mirror roundtable
Roundtable discussion of the performance and career of Christine and the Queens, closing the conference 'The Broken Mirror: Christine and the Queens and global Frenchness', held by Florida State University on 20 October 2022: https://winthropking.fsu.edu/event/broken-mirror-christine-and-queens-and-global-frenchness/program
Writing the World with Michaël Ferrier
Writing the World with Micha€ el FerrierPour comprendre la France, il est n ecessaire de passer par d'autres pays.Il faut aller voir ailleurs pour comprendre ce qu'est la France.-Micha€ el Ferrier, M emoires d'outre-merWhen there is enough out-of-placeness in the world, nothing is out of place.-Don DeLillo, Mao II Micha€ el Ferrier describes himself, in an academic context, as "a French writer, novelist and essayist."But for anyone who has read h…
Un homme d’écoute”
Engaging with existing scholarship on Ferrier’s work, specifically that which identifies the author’s sensitivity to sounds, and with Ferrier’s own writing on music and literature, this article pursues a “sound-studies” approach to the 2015 novel, Mémoires d’outre mer, highlighting the various uses of sounds and arguing that the author be considered in the same way he writes of his grandfather Maxime, as “un homme d’écoute.”Keywords: Soundsmusicf…
Christine and the Queens at the BBC
This article reads 2016 as a breakthrough year for Christine and the Queens in the United Kingdom, particularly England. Through analyzing a select corpus of interviews and performances, I argue that the artist's personal breakthroughs occur in a context of changing UK-European relations, and indeed of the ever-changing persona of Christine, who changes constantly and yet stays the same in crucial regards. I read such evolving identities and rela…
Introduction to the broken mirror
It’s complicated. For me, the experience is that the more you explore, the less you’re sure, in a way. And the more you explore, the more it changes. I say I’m a woman, but I’m exploring desire as a force of chaos that surprises me. And through desire, I get to explore many different identities. I don’t feel like I’m trapped in my woman’s body. I’m loving that woman’s body, actually. I love also the versatility of it – how easily I can look like …
Migration and Refuge
Introduction
In any culture, festive events are often far more than simple opportunities to feast and celebrate. They can also be focal points for political or cultural movements, a chance to speak and act in ways that may be forbidden or limited in non-festive times. In the Caribbean, with its particular history of slavery and cross-cultural encounter, festivities were often highly policed, explosive points in the calendar. Slave dances were breaks in the re…
Stars and Strife, Memory and Futurity
This article reads the work of Haitian artist Édouard Duval-Carrié as a form of visual translation between the Francophone Caribbean and North America, specifically Florida, the liminal space that he presents as a borderland, a site of conflict and possible creative conciliation, a creolized world that bears the traces of the common history of the plantation. The article draws mainly on selected works featured in his 2018 exhibition at Florida St…
The Haiti Exception
When the Walls Fall
This essay, which introduces part 2 of the special section “Eulogizing Creoleness? Rereading Éloge de la créolité,” considers the Éloge’s relationship with time, specifically the idea that it was before its time or that it was published in advance of the existence of an appropriately prepared reading public. Referring to some recent global events, and drawing on a largely neglected pamphlet by Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau, the author w…
La Floride française
Florida was a central concern of French governments between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries in their repeated attempts to secure a French presence in the New World. From the expeditions of the Huguenot Jean Ribault and Rene de Laudonniere that led to the creation of Fort Caroline in 1565, somewhere in the vicinity of present-day Jacksonville, to bold plans at the time of the Louisiana sale, in 1803, to turn Eastern Florida into a Frenc…
Reorienting Cultural Flows
Why Haiti Needs New Narratives
Eulogizing Creoleness? Éloge de la créolité and Caribbean Identity, Culture, and Politics
This essay introduces part 1 of a special section on the créolité movement-"Eulogizing Creoleness? Rereading Éloge de la créolité"-in which a variety of essays explore and assess the impact, twenty-five-plus years on, of the controversial manifesto by Patrick Chamoiseau, Raphaël Confiant, and Jean Bernabé. Éloge de la créolité has been much discussed and critiqued in relation to Antillean politics and literature; its claim to replace essentialist…
Haiti in a Globalized Frame
We must confine the plague to the island.—Thomas Jefferson (1804)Despite its long periods of economic and political isolation, Haiti has always been an important global center, and a particularly m
Disaster Studies and Cultures of Disaster in Haiti
Dany Laferrière
Reviewed by: Dany Laferrière: Essays on His Works ed. by Lee Skallerup Bessette Martin Munro Dany Laferrière: Essays on His Works. Edited by Lee Skallerup Bessette. Toronto: Guernica, 2013. ISBN 9781550717419. 208 pp. $20 paperback. This compact volume is a useful addition to the growing body of work on Dany Laferrière, a corpus that will no doubt continue to grow given the author’s election to the Académie Française and the greater critical atte…
Littérature-fin-du-monde
This paper argues that Haitian literature is a kind of successor to littérature-monde, through arguing that in contrast to the generally positive, future-oriented thrust of the manifesto and the book, much recent and contemporary writing from Haiti presents a dystopian view of time and history in which the idea of the future is relatively absent and often figured around sentiments of an imminent apocalyptic collapse.Keywords: HaitiApocalypseProph…
The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination
Reviewed by: The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints by Philip Kaisary Martin Munro The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints. By Philip Kaisary. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2014. ISBN 9780813935478. xiii+237 pp. $29.50 paperback, $59.50 cloth. Given the marked rise in scholarly interest in Haiti since the turn of the…
Thirsting to Write
What constitutes a Haitian postearthquake novel? Does such a work require the author to present to a greater or lesser degree people and situations that relate to the disaster and its ongoing effects? Is a work written after the earthquake but which does not mention it still a postearthquake novel? This article engages with some of the issues facing Haitian writers following the earthquake through a close discussion of a novel that does in fact w…
The performance of listening in postcolonial Francophone culture
The performance of listening in postcolonial Francophone culture." Modern & Contemporary France, 27(4), pp. 530–531
African Musicians in the Atlantic World
Neighbourhood Perception, Preference, and Household Mobility in the Glasgow Private Housing Market
There has been much discussion as to the validity and importance of a disaggregated framework for analysis in the housing market. This paper, with data from a recent survey in Glasgow, is an analysis, first, of the ways in which neighbourhoods are perceived and shows that residents have widely differing perceptions as to the extent and distinctive features of their own neighbourhood. Second, the importance of neighbourhoods in structuring the pro…
Different DrummersRhythm and Race in the Americas
Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. This book traces the central—and contested—role of music in shaping identities, politics, social history, and artistic expression. Starting with enslaved African musicians, the book takes us to Haiti, Trinidad, the French Caribbean, and to the civil rights era in the United States. Along the…
Disaster Studies and Cultures of Disaster in Haiti
A New Pastoralism
A New Pastoralism?Nature and Community in Lyonel Trouillot’s La Belle amour humaine Martin Munro For many Haitian authors, the earthquake of 2010 shook not just the physical space of Haiti but also its cultural and social foundations—indeed, everything. This idea is suggested, for example, in the title of Dany Laferrière’s first postdisaster book, Tout bouge autour de moi (Everything moves around me).1 The image the title evokes is of the author …
Whose and Which Haiti? Western Intellectuals and the Aristide Question
Listening to Caribbean history
This article deals with the relationship between music, rhythm and black Caribbean history and identity. It begins by considering briefly some of the ways that sounds, including music and rhythm, shaped and defined the experience of slavery, and then argues that despite the importance of rhythm to this experience and to subsequent Caribbean cultural history, most critics and scholars have tended to neglect or ignore rhythm in their work. Drawing …
Afterword
Research Article| September 01 2005 Afterword Dany Laferrière Dany Laferrière Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 202–204. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-2-202 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Dany Laferrière; Afterword. Small Axe 1 September 2005; 9 (2): 202–204. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-2-202 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookend…
Can't Stand Up for Falling Down
The repercussions of the Haitian Revolution have been the subject of much historical, economic, and political scholarship. Less attention has, however, been paid to the cultural after-effects of Haiti's anticolonial victory. This essay calls for a more thorough critical re-evaluation of how the Revolution impacted cultures in the Caribbean, in the New World, and globally. As a contribution to this process, the essay revisits and re-interprets the…
Housebuilding in a Recession
In this paper we examine recently completed research in the Scottish housebuilding industry as it emerges from recession. A regionally differentiated downturn in construction activity has hit Scotland less severely than parts of England but the Scottish experience may nonetheless be able to shed light on prospects for the future. In the paper we use a structure-conduct-performance paradigm to classify the industry and to see where and by how much…
Hong Kong-Far Eastern Meeting Point
Neighbourhood Perception, Preference, and Household Mobility in the Glasgow Private Housing Market
There has been much discussion as to the validity and importance of a disaggregated framework for analysis in the housing market. This paper, with data from a recent survey in Glasgow, is an analysis, first, of the ways in which neighbourhoods are perceived and shows that residents have widely differing perceptions as to the extent and distinctive features of their own neighbourhood. Second, the importance of neighbourhoods in structuring the pro…
Housebuilding in a Recession
In this paper we examine recently completed research in the Scottish housebuilding industry as it emerges from recession. A regionally differentiated downturn in construction activity has hit Scotland less severely than parts of England but the Scottish experience may nonetheless be able to shed light on prospects for the future. In the paper we use a structure-conduct-performance paradigm to classify the industry and to see where and by how much…
What Future for the Right to Buy
In this paper evidence from the 1991 Scottish House Condition Survey is used to analyse the extent to which, after over fifteen years of continuing sales under the right to buy, there still remains further scope for sales under this policy. The authors confirm that there are continuing cohorts of people who express a desire to buy in the near future. Multivariate analysis indicates that the motivation to buy is chiefly created by the households' …
René Depestre
La Discorde antillaise
Wild Thing
This paper analyses occurrences of exoticism, firstly in European culture, and notably in Surrealist discourse, scientific racism, and in the work of Gobineau. This theoretical framework is then used to discuss an example of a wild man/noble savage figure in Jacques‐Stephen Alexis's Les Arbres musiciens . The apparent incongruity of a postcolonial author reproducing a figure so charged with Eurocentric, exoticist impulses is examined in detail. T…
Can't Stand Up for Falling Down
The repercussions of the Haitian Revolution have been the subject of much historical, economic, and political scholarship. Less attention has, however, been paid to the cultural after-effects of Haiti's anticolonial victory. This essay calls for a more thorough critical re-evaluation of how the Revolution impacted cultures in the Caribbean, in the New World, and globally. As a contribution to this process, the essay revisits and re-interprets the…
Introduction
Master of the New
Research Article| September 01 2005 Master of the New: Tradition and Intertextuality in Dany Laferrière's Pays sans chapeau Martin Munro Martin Munro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 176–188. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-2-176 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Martin Munro; Master of the New: Tradition and Intertextuality in Dany Laferrière's Pays sans chapeau.…
Afterword
Research Article| September 01 2005 Afterword Dany Laferrière Dany Laferrière Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 202–204. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-2-202 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Dany Laferrière; Afterword. Small Axe 1 September 2005; 9 (2): 202–204. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-2-202 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookend…
Master of the New
Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows
Reviewed by: Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows Martin Munro (bio) Chamoiseau, Patrick . Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows. Trans. Linda Coverdale. University of Nebraska Press, 1999. On its original publication in 1986, the first novel by Martinican Patrick Chamoiseau, Chronique des sept misères (Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows) announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice in Caribbean writing. Since then, Chamoiseau has emerged as the most influent…
Rêver le monde écrire le monde
By Carminella Biondi and Elena Pessini. Bologna, CLUEB, 2004. 149 pp. Pb €14.00. Édouard Glissant, as the authors of this short study take care to point out, is an ‘auteur difficile’, who demands of his readers not only ‘un effort intellectuel’ (p. 9), but also a kind of devotion or loyalty, as his works accumulate references to themselves in such a way that the full resonance of the intertexts can only be appreciated if one is familiar with the …
Langue, identité et postcolonialisme
Writing Disaster
This essay deals with the question of trauma in Haitian writing, and specifically with Edwidge Danticat’s novel The Farming of Bones . Drawing on a wide range of theorists, and undertaking a close reading of the novel, the essay suggests that the Haitian experience of trauma is different in many ways to that of other Caribbean islands. In particular, it is argued that the fragmented experience of Haitian history cannot be easily recuperated into …
Listening to Caribbean history
This article deals with the relationship between music, rhythm and black Caribbean history and identity. It begins by considering briefly some of the ways that sounds, including music and rhythm, shaped and defined the experience of slavery, and then argues that despite the importance of rhythm to this experience and to subsequent Caribbean cultural history, most critics and scholars have tended to neglect or ignore rhythm in their work. Drawing …
Haitian Novels and Novels of Haiti
This essay reads Madison Smartt Bell's Haitian trilogy in the context of contemporary Haitian literature, and considers why Haitian writers have tended not to evoke the revolution in their work, and why it is an American author has produced the most ambitious work of Haitian historical fiction of recent times
Interdependence and Intertextuality in Lyonel Trouillot's Bicentenaire
Evoking the persistence of themes of revenge and animosity in Haitian literature, this article considers how Lyonel Trouillot radically reconceptualizes them, and considers how his work is pushing toward a more complex understanding of personal and collective identity and destiny in Haiti. The article argues that, in suggesting the interdependencies that exist between individuals and groups in Haiti, Trouillot's work offers a potential way out of…
Interdependence and Intertextuality in Lyonel Trouillot'sBicentenaire
The French Creoles of Trinidad and the Limits of the Francophone
This article is framed by the argument that, for all its justified condemnation of the closed nature of traditional French studies, the realm of Francophone studies constructs its own barriers and its own conventions of what constitutes Francophone writing. The influence of postcolonial theory on the field, it is argued, has focused interest almost exclusively on the literature of the colonized and the repressed in neocolonial and postcolonial si…
Different DrummersRhythm and Race in the Americas
Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. This book traces the central—and contested—role of music in shaping identities, politics, social history, and artistic expression. Starting with enslaved African musicians, the book takes us to Haiti, Trinidad, the French Caribbean, and to the civil rights era in the United States. Along the…
Haiti's Worldly Literature
The Littérature-monde manifesto, published in 2007, seems to announce a new era for writing in French from non-metropolitan regions. It moreover suggests that this moment marks a “Copernican revolution” in the literary history of France and the French-speaking world. This article considers the case of Haitian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, and suggests that this, one of the oldest Francophone literary traditions, can be thought of as …
Slaves to the Rhythm
The Apocalyptic Creole, from Dessalines to the Chimères
In this article, I explore the idea of the hybrid, creolized subject in Haiti as a kind of living phantom. To do so, I refer initially to the notion of the “Creole Dessalines,” the idea that Haiti’s first leader was island-born and culturally creole. I then move forward in time 200 years, to just before the bicentenary, a time that seemed to usher back into Haitian society figures that appear to echo in many ways the creole Dessalines in their am…
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