Leak, A;
(2013)
A Vain Fascination: Writing from and about Haiti after the Earthquake.
BULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH
, 32
(4)
394 - 406.
10.1111/blar.12072.
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Abstract
In the wake of the huge earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, Haiti instantly became the focus of media attention across the world. At that moment, the tropes that had imprisoned Haiti for two centuries (barbarism, savagery, vodou, the land-that-God-forgot, etc.) began to resurface. Some Haitian intellectuals sought to combat those images, but in so doing they inadvertently revealed their complicity not only in the negative discursive construction of their country, but also in the economic and military re-colonisation of Haiti over the last decade. Adept in the fabrication of replicas of ‘post-political’ discourse, These Haitian intellectuals are in reality a subset of that country's morally bankrupt political class.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A Vain Fascination: Writing from and about Haiti after the Earthquake |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/blar.12072 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/blar.12072 |
| Additional information: | © 2013 The Authors. Bulletin of Latin American Research published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of the Society for Latin American Studies This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Haiti, earthquake, artists, intellectuals, representation, post/coloniality |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1396036 |
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