Raphael Dalleo

Associate Professor of English | Bucknell University

American Imperialism’s Undead wins Caribbean Studies Association Book Prize

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American Imperialism’s Undead has won the 2017 Gordon K. and Sibyl Lewis Prize for best book about the Caribbean, awarded by the Caribbean Studies Association. According to CSA, the prize is the organization’s most prestigious award.

Prize committee chair Carole Boyce Davies describes the book as “accessible and well-written” with a “deep, continuous argument” based on “wide and deep research.” The book effectively “uses literature to make links across the Caribbean” even while being “fully interdisciplinary.” As a result, it “expands the boundaries of Haitian, pan-Caribbean, and pan-African studies.”

For more about the book, visit http://occupationundead.scholar.bucknell.edu/

 

 

(6/7/17) The Occupation of Haiti and the U.S. Culture Industry @ CSA

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As part of the panel “Publishing the Nation: Creolized Language in Caribbean Novels,” Raphael Dalleo presented an excerpt from his new book at the 2017 Caribbean Studies Association conference in Nassau, Bahamas. He presented a section called “The Occupation of Haiti and the U.S. Culture Industry: Caribbean Responses.” Other participants in the panel included Emily Taylor, Cathy Thomas, and Keja Valens.

(6/6/17) Author Celebration @ CSA

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American Imperialism’s Undead was presented at the Author Celebration of the Caribbean Studies Association conference on Tuesday, June 6th at 2 pm in Arawak Room B of the Melia Resort in Nassau, Bahamas. Other books celebrated included Glyne Griffith’s The BBC and the Development of Anglophone Caribbean Literature, 1943-1958 and Juliette Storr’s Journalism in a Small Place.
Leah Rosenberg introduced American Imperialism’s Undead. The author was available for questions, discussion, and a book signing.

Interview on the New Books Network

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Listen to an interview with Alejandra Bronfman about American Imperialism’s Undead on the New Books Network. The book is described as “wide-ranging and compelling,” and the discussion includes the origins of the book, some of the major literary and political figures influenced by the occupation of Haiti such as C.L.R. James, Eric Walrond, George Padmore, and Marcus and Amy Jacques Garvey, and new directions in Caribbean Studies.

http://newbooksnetwork.com/raphael-dalleo-american-imperialisms-undead-the-occupation-of-haiti-and-the-rise-of-caribbean-anti-colonialism-uva-press-2016/

(1/8/17) Eric Walrond, the Exoticized Caribbean, and the U.S. Occupation of Haiti @ MLA

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The panel Professor Dalleo organized for the 2017 Modern Language Association convention, “Caribbean Specters in 1920s Harlem,” has been selected for the conference’s presidential theme. Dalleo will be presenting material about Eric Walrond from my new book, American Imperialism’s Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism. He will be joined by Vanessa Valdes, Imani Owens, and James Davis, who will present papers on Arturo Schomburg, Eulalie Spence, and Nella Larsen.

The panel takes place on Sunday, January 8, 2017, from noon to 1:15 pm in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, room 112A.