Yveline Alexis – författare

Winner of the 2021 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte is the first US scholarly examination of the politician and caco leader (guerrilla fighter) who fought against the US military occupation of Haiti. The occupation lasted close to two decades, from 1915-1934. Alexis argues for the importance of documenting resistance while exploring the occupation's mechanics and its imperialism. She takes us to Haiti, exploring the sites of what she labels as resistance zones, including Péralte's hometown of Hinche and the nation's large port areas--Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haïtien. Alexis offers a new reading of U.S. military archival sources that record Haitian protests as banditry. Haiti Fights Back illuminates how Péralte launched a political movement, and meticulously captures how Haitian women and men resisted occupation through silence, military battles, and writings. She locates and assembles rare, multilingual primary sources from traditional repositories, living archives (oral stories), and artistic representations in Haiti and the United States. The interdisciplinary work draws on legislation, cacos' letters, newspapers, and murals, offering a unique examination of Péralte's life (1885-1919) and the significance of his legacy through the twenty-first century. Haiti Fights Back offers a new approach to the study of the U.S. invasion of the Americas by chronicling how Caribbean people fought back.

Winner of the 2021 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte is the first US scholarly examination of the politician and caco leader (guerrilla fighter) who fought against the US military occupation of Haiti. The occupation lasted close to two decades, from 1915-1934. Alexis argues for the importance of documenting resistance while exploring the occupation's mechanics and its imperialism. She takes us to Haiti, exploring the sites of what she labels as resistance zones, including Péralte's hometown of Hinche and the nation's large port areas--Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haïtien. Alexis offers a new reading of U.S. military archival sources that record Haitian protests as banditry. Haiti Fights Back illuminates how Péralte launched a political movement, and meticulously captures how Haitian women and men resisted occupation through silence, military battles, and writings. She locates and assembles rare, multilingual primary sources from traditional repositories, living archives (oral stories), and artistic representations in Haiti and the United States. The interdisciplinary work draws on legislation, cacos' letters, newspapers, and murals, offering a unique examination of Péralte's life (1885-1919) and the significance of his legacy through the twenty-first century. Haiti Fights Back offers a new approach to the study of the U.S. invasion of the Americas by chronicling how Caribbean people fought back.

Leonore Mau reiste fast zwei Jahrzehnte mit dem Schriftsteller Hubert Fichte, um afrodiasporische Religionen zu erforschen. Ihre dabei entstandenen Fotografien blieben größtenteils unveröffentlicht. Sie stellen uns vor Herausforderungen: Was bedeutet es heute, sie zu betrachten – nach Debatten über Repräsentation und den Umgang mit künstlerisch-ethnografischen Fotografien? Das Buch widmet sich Maus Aufnahmen, die während der Duvalier-Diktatur in den 1970er-Jahren in Haiti entstanden. Der Titel bezieht sich auf die Kosmologie des Vodou, nach der die Seelen vor der Wiedergeburt für ein Jahr und einen Tag unter Wasser leben. Künstler*innen und Wissenschaftler*innen vertiefen den historischen Hintergrund von Maus fotografischer Praxis und beleuchten u. a. Haiti in den 1970er Jahren, die Beziehung zwischen Deutschland und Haiti oder die Ethik des Fotografierens und Betrachtens von Bildern.Leonore Mau (1916–2013) begann in den 1950er Jahren in Hamburg zu fotografieren. Seit den 1960er Jahren lebte und reiste sie mit dem Schriftsteller Hubert Fichte (1935–1986).