A Vain Fascination
Writing from and about Haiti after the Earthquake
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3818348 |
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| Authors | Andrew Leak (University College London UK), Andrew N Leak (University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 394-406 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/blar.12072 |
| OpenAlex | W1492414290 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
In the wake of the huge earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, Haiti instantly became the focus of media attention across the world. At that moment, the tropes that had imprisoned Haiti for two centuries (barbarism, savagery, vodou, the land-that-God-forgot, etc.) began to resurface. Some Haitian intellectuals sought to combat those images, but in so doing they inadvertently revealed their complicity not only in the negative discursive construction of their country, but also in the economic and military re-colonisation of Haiti over the last decade. Adept in the fabrication of replicas of 'post-political' discourse, These Haitian intellectuals are in reality a subset of that country's morally bankrupt political class
Barbarism · Complicity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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