Haiti has long been relegated to the margins of the so-called New World. Marked by exceptionalism, the voices of some of its most important writers have consequ

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Historically and contemporarily, politically a

This book recuperates the important history that Haitian thought around Vodou possession has had in French critical theory. The author takes the period of the 1

While Haiti established the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere and was the first black country to gain independence from European colonizers, i

This collection of essays considers the ways and extent of Haiti's 'exceptionalisation' - its perception in multiple arenas as definitively unique with respect