
American Imperialism's Undead
As modern Caribbean politics and literature emerged in the first half of the twentieth century, Haiti, as the region''s first independent state, stood as a source of inspiration for imagining decolonization and rooting regional identity in Africanness. Yet at precisely the same moment that anticolonialism was spreading throughout the Caribbean, Haiti itself was occupied by U.S. marines, a fact tha...
As modern Caribbean politics and literature emerged in the first half of the twentieth century, Haiti, as the region''s first independent state, stood as a source of inspiration for imagining decolonization and rooting regional identity in Africanness. Yet at precisely the same moment that anticolonialism was spreading throughout the Caribbean, Haiti itself was occupied by U.S. marines, a fact tha...