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

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20250211151309
ISBN  
9798382715544
DDC  
820
저자명  
Hamer, Chloe.
서명/저자  
Chains of Production: Labor and Literary Opacity in the Contemporary Haitian Novel
발행사항  
[Sl] : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
형태사항  
237 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: DeGuzman, Maria;Christmas, Danielle.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024.
초록/해제  
요약This 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.
일반주제명  
Caribbean literature
일반주제명  
Latin American literature
일반주제명  
Caribbean studies
일반주제명  
Comparative literature
키워드  
Commodification
키워드  
Dictatorship
키워드  
Haiti
키워드  
Labor
키워드  
Marronage
키워드  
Literary opacity
기타저자  
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill English and Comparative Literature
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-11A.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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