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(2/12/16) New Review of Haiti and the Americas

Post author By Raphael Dalleo
Post date February 20, 2016
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A review of the collection Haiti and the Americas has been published on the site Haiti Then and Now:

“Using a variety of conceptual frameworks and methodological lenses, each essay provides a fresh, unbiased rearticulation of many taken-for-granted assumptions regarding Haiti and its contributions to discourses of freedom in the Western hemisphere. One strength of the book is that each of the selected essays work in concert with one another while enabling each author to use their text to articulate their individual points of view…Overall, Haiti and the Americas is a balanced, research based collection of essays articulating the narratives of Haiti from its historical past to its present and future…Scholars interested in Diasporic Literature, Cultural Studies, Education, Haitian History, and Black Atlantic Studies may find Haiti and the Americas a useful pre-primer.”

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More reviews of Haiti and the Americas can be found here.

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(10/8/15) Faculty profile

Post author By Raphael Dalleo
Post date October 8, 2015
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Raphael Dalleo

“If we are always going to be outsiders, can we really critically engage with another culture?” asks Professor Raphael Dalleo, English.

By introducing his students to a variety of international authors, Dalleo encourages them to examine how they interact with people from backgrounds other than their own. “Reading world literature gives them the opportunity to critically engage with other cultures and really think about their own place in the world,” he says.

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(10/1/15) Voodoo and the West Indian Nationalist Novel @ WI Lit

Post author By Raphael Dalleo
Post date October 5, 2015
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At the West Indian Literature conference held at the University of Puerto Rico in October 2015, Raphael Dalleo participated in one of two roundtables launching the collection Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature. Volume editors J. Dillon Brown and Leah Rosenberg hosted the roundtables, and participants included Lisa Outar, Evelyn O’Callaghan, Kim Robinson-Walcott, Glyne Griffith, Michelle Stephens, Michael Bucknor, and Donette Francis.

Dalleo’s contribution centered on his research later published in the book American Imperialism’s Undead. He discussed how the representation of Caribbean culture during the West Indian Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s remains haunted by images of the region created during the U.S. occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934. He focused on George Lamming’s Ceremony of Souls in Pleasures of Exile and Season of Adventure as well as the zombies of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea.

The conference website is available here.

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(9/10/15) Claude McKay, Eric Walrond and the Exoticized Caribbean @ Howard U

Post author By Raphael Dalleo
Post date September 5, 2015
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Howard University’s Caribbean studies program hosted the conference, “A Global Crossroads? Caribbean studies beyond disciplines” in September 2015.

Raphael Dalleo presented from his research, discussing how U.S.-based writers during the 1920s like Eric Walrond and Claude McKay found themselves translating their Caribbean identities through images of voodoo circulated by the occupation of Haiti.

More information about the event can be found here.

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(8/24/15) Review of Haiti and the Americas in Journal of Haitian Studies

Post author By Raphael Dalleo
Post date August 24, 2015
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Kate Ramsey, author of The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti, reviews the collection Haiti and the Americas in the spring 2015 issue of Journal of Haitian Studies.

Ramsey writes: “The transnational turn in Haitian studies and the hemispheric turn in American studies come together in this groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection, which situates Haiti as a ‘crossroads’ of the Americas…Haiti and the Americas spotlights the multiple ways that scholars are working at the intersection of transnational Haitian and hemispheric American studies, as well as the rich insights that become possible at these geographic, temporal, and disciplinary crossroads. I came away from the collection with a more faceted understanding of these histories and texts, with new questions, and with the hope and expectation that Haiti and the Americas will generate many sequels.”

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