Contents
Introduction: Haiti's Transnational Politics of "Big Man-ism"
Part 1. Straight, Queer, and Street
1. Trans-American Constructions of Black Heteromasculinity: Dany
Laferrière, le Nègre, and the Late-Capitalist American Racial
Machine-désirante
2. From Fort Dimanche to Brooklyn: Transnational Regimes of
Violence, Duvalierism, and Failed Heteromasculinity in Raoul Peck's
Haitian Corner
Part 2. Queer Fist
3. "Honey, Honey, Miss Thing": Assotto Saint's Drag Queen
Blues—Queening the Homeland, Queer-Fisting the Dyaspora
4. Drag-Kinging the Dyaspora: Dréd Performing Black (Female)
Masculinities in Haiti's Tenth Department
Part 3. Rapping B(l)ack
5. (Rara) Rap Haiti! Wyclef Jean's Chante pwen, Embattled Black
Masculinity, and Diasporic Remix as Political Protest
6. Trans-American Art on the Streets: Jean-Michel Basquiat's Black
Canvas Bodies and Urban Vodou-Art in Manhattan
Conclusion: Presidential Politics, Haiti's Gwo Nègs, and Diasporic Cultural Production as Transnational Political Protest
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
How Haitian diaspora artists resist and refigure race, gender, and ethnic identities in American culture
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.
"Energetic, well-argued, and persuasive." Marjorie Salvodon, Suffolk University
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