Jana Evans Braziel is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati and author of Diaspora: An Introduction and "Caribbean Genesis": Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds.
Haiti's transnational politics of "big man-ism" | p. 1 |
Straight, queer, and street | |
Trans-American constructions of black heteromasculinity : Dany Laferriere, le Negre, and the late-capitalist American racial Machine-desirante | p. 25 |
From Fort Dimanche to Brooklyn : transnational regimes of violence, Duvalierism, and failed heteromasculinity in Raoul Peck's Haitian corner | p. 59 |
Queer fist | |
"Honey, honey, Miss Thing" : Assotto Saint's drag queen blues - queening the homeland, queer-fisting the dyaspora | p. 85 |
Drag-kinging the dyaspora : Dred performing black (female) masculinities in Haiti's Tenth Department | p. 114 |
Rapping b(l)ack | |
(Rara) Rap Haiti! : Wyclef Jean's Chante pwen, embattled black masculinity, and diasporic remix as political protest | p. 143 |
Trans-American art on the streets : Jean-Michel Basquiat's black canvas bodies and urban vodou-art in Manhattan | p. 174 |
Presidential politics, Haiti's Gwo Negs, and diasporic cultural production as transnational political protest | p. 203 |
Notes | p. 211 |
Selected bibliography | p. 259 |
Index | p. 293 |
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