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Chains of Production: Labor and Literary Opacity in the Contemporary Haitian Novel /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Chains of Production: Labor and Literary Opacity in the Contemporary Haitian Novel // Chloe Hamer.
Author:	Hamer, Chloe,
Description:	1 electronic resource (237 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-11A.
Subject:	Caribbean literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31236832
ISBN:	9798382715544

Chains of Production: Labor and Literary Opacity in the Contemporary Haitian Novel /
Hamer, Chloe,

Chains of Production: Labor and Literary Opacity in the Contemporary Haitian Novel /Chloe Hamer. - 1 electronic resource (237 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.

This dissertation explores how Haitian and Haitian diasporic novels of the Duvalier and post-Duvalier periods engage with themes surrounding labor, commodification, and political resistance. Breaking with Indigenist authors of the 1920s-50s whose novels make clear, direct calls to leftist collective action, authors living under and in the aftermath of Francois and Jean-Claude Duvalier's dictatorships (1957-1986) privilege indirect critiques of oppression, drawing the reader's attention to the fundamental opacity of both the text and the Haitian subjects it depicts in the process. I argue that by employing a series of opaque literary tactics such as nonlinear narration, narrative plurality, repetition, and the concealment or masking of historical events and personal experiences, contemporary Haitian authors limit the availability of their texts as objects for consumption. This refusal of transparency enables authors to critique social, national, and global power inequalities and forms of economic exploitation without dehumanizing or exploiting their Haitian peasant and proletariat subjects, commodifying their own identities as writers, or reducing traumatic memories to linear, easily comprehensible narratives. In this way, literary opacity functions as a form of social, political, and cultural resistance to narratives that portray Haiti and its inhabitants as both uniquely unknowable and predictable in their violence, chaos, and degradation. This study makes use of Haitian, pan-Caribbean, and broadly postcolonial theoretical models including James C. Scott's theorization of indirect forms of resistance, Averill Gage's study of mawonaj, or marronage, in Haitian music and/as popular protest, and Edouard Glissant's privileging of formerly colonized peoples' right to opacity. This dissertation contributes to a growing body of scholarship on globalization and transnational labor in contemporary Haitian literature, such as Jana Evans Braziel's Duvalier's Ghosts (2010) and Kaiama Glover's Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (2010); to the wealth of scholarship engaged with leftist and anti-(neo)imperial political struggle in Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone Caribbean culture and literary texts; and finally, to broader areas of study examining the roles of postcolonial or "world" literature in an age of increasing globalization and global wealth inequality.

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ISBN: 9798382715544Subjects--Topical Terms:

3173897
Caribbean literature.
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