- 252 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges.
In Haitian Creole, bay lodyans means to tell stories to an audience, and more generally, to entertain. This book is the first to analyze popular contemporary Haitian films, looking especially at how they respond to the needs and desires of Haitian audiences in and beyond Haiti. Produced between 2000 and 2018 and largely shot with digital cameras and sometimes cellphones, these films focus on the complexities of community, nostalgia, belonging, identity, and the emotional landscapes of exile and diaspora. They reflect sociopolitical and cultural issues related to family, language, im/migration, religion, gender, sexuality, and economic hardship. Using storytelling and other less traditionally "academic" techniques, Cécile Accilien advances Haitian epistemological frameworks. Bay Lodyans integrates terms and concepts from Haitian culture, such as jerans and kafou (derived from the French words for "to manage" and "crossroads," respectively) and includes interviews with Haitian filmmakers, actors, and scholars in order to challenge the dominance of Western theoretical approaches and perspectives.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: Dèyè mòn gen mòn
- 1. Searching for Home: Im/migration, Deportation, and Exile in Dyaspora $100, Kidnappings, and Deported
- 2. Language, Class, and Identity: Pale franse pa vle di lespri pou sa
- 3. Representations of Religion: Protestant Views of Vodou in Madan Pastè a (1 & 2) and Matlòt (1, 2, & 3)
- 4. Gender and Heteronormative Sexuality: Cousines, Facebook Player, and Gason
- 5. Navigating Same-Sex Desire: Fanm and Jere m Cheri
- 6. Conclusion: Ayiti Nou Vle a (The Haiti We Want): Creating New Narratives for a New Haiti
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1 Film Titles in Haitian Creole and in French
- Appendix 2 Film Titles Referring to Proverbs in French and in Haitian Creole
- Appendix 3 Film Titles That Include Fanm and Gason
- Appendix 4 Film Title Categories
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Back Cover