Raphael Dalleo

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/

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/