Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora

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.

• ContentsIntroduction: Haiti's Transnational Politics of "Big Man-ism"Part 1. Straight, Queer, and Street1. Trans-American Constructions of Black Heteromasculinity: Dany Laferrière, le Nègre, and the Late-Capitalist American Racial Machine-désirante2. From Fort Dimanche to Brooklyn: Transnational Regimes of Violence, Duvalierism, and Failed Heteromasculinity in Raoul Peck's Haitian CornerPart 2. Queer Fist3. "Honey, Honey, Miss Thing": Assotto Saint's Drag Queen Blues—Queening the Homeland, Queer-Fisting the Dyaspora4. Drag-Kinging the Dyaspora: Dréd Performing Black (Female) Masculinities in Haiti's Tenth DepartmentPart 3. Rapping B(l)ack5. (Rara) Rap Haiti! Wyclef Jean's Chante pwen, Embattled Black Masculinity, and Diasporic Remix as Political Protest6. Trans-American Art on the Streets: Jean-Michel Basquiat's Black Canvas Bodies and Urban Vodou-Art in ManhattanConclusion: Presidential Politics, Haiti's Gwo Nègs, and Diasporic Cultural Production as Transnational Political ProtestNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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