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From Cutting Cane to Planting Seeds: Race, Gender, and Identity in Caribbean Women's Fiction
Salkauski, Jaclyn N. (authoraut)
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Poey, Delia (professor directing dissertation)
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McGregory, Jerrilyn (university representative)
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Imagining Women and Sexuality under Duvalier: 21st-Century Representations of the Duvalier Regimes in Novels by Haitian Women
Scott, Lindsey (authoraut)
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Munro, Martin (professor directing dissertation)
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McGregory, Jerrilyn (university representative)
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Walters, Lori (committee member)
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Leushuis, Reinier (committee member)
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Gomariz, José (committee member)
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Florida State University (degree granting institution)
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College of Arts and Sciences (degree granting college)
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Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (degree granting department)
. - : Florida State University
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This dissertation explores contemporary literary representations of the Haitian Duvalier dictatorships (1957-1986), by authors Nadine Magloire, Kettly Mars, Evelyne Trouillot, and Marie-Célie Agnant. The questions that I explore through my dissertation research are: How do these authors represent the instrumentalization of sex during this time, both as a weapon of oppression and a means of resistance? How might Haitian women view their potential for agency in the context of this regime? The theoretical approach to this dissertation combines scholarship on postcolonial feminism and sexuality studies in a Haitian context in order to understand the implications and dynamics of power imbalance, agency, and heteronormative discourse in the works in question. Within the field of Haitian studies, I consider the work of little-studied authors and question a tendency to focus on the 2010 earthquake as the defining break between current and past literature. Rather, I suggest that cyclical trauma--of which the Duvalier dictatorships represent an important period--constantly informs the aesthetics of Haitian literature. More broadly, I respond to questions of agency and subjectivity, and demonstrate how these authors experiment with sexuality as a way to simultaneously reclaim agency and delineate the limits of such agency. Ultimately, I argue that these authors create a sort of literary dialogue between Haiti and the diaspora. These women imagine strategies involving feminine geolibertinism, homosexuality, self-sacrifice, prostitution, and abstinence as means of surviving and coping with the legacy of the Duvalier era. In fact, I argue that writing gender and sexuality outside of heteronormativity is one way in which 21st-century female Haitian novelists remember the Duvalier regime and create a space for potential resistance. ; A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. ; Spring Semester, 2015. ; March 27, 2015. ; Duvalier, Gender, Haiti, Sexuality ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Martin Munro, Professor Directing Dissertation; Jerrilyn McGregory, University Representative; Lori Walters, Committee Member; Reinier Leushuis, Committee Member; José Gomariz, Committee Member.
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