Haitian Intellectual History: Top 20 Books in Past 30 Years!
Below, I recommend what I believe to be the Top 20 Books that have been written in the English language, in the past thirty years, on Haitian Intellectual History. I list these texts by their year of publication and not necessarily by their impact on the field of Haitian Studies.
- In the Shadow of Powers: Dantes Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought (1985) by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
- Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race, Colour and National Independence in Haiti (1996) by David Nicholls
- Haiti and the United States: National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination (1996) by J. Michael Dash
- Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women (1997) by Myriam J. A. Chancy
- Haiti, History, and the Gods (1998) by Joan Dayan
- Haiti’s Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy (2002) by Robert Fatton
- Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (2004) by Sibylle Fischer
- The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti (2006) by Alex Dupuy
- Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment (2008) by Nick Nesbitt
- Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957 (2009)
by Matthew J. Smith - Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (2009) by Susan Buck-Morss
- Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (2011) by Kaiama L. Glover
- The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti (2014) by Kate Ramsey
- Spirit Possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou Thought: An Intellectual History (2014)
by Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken - Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (2015) by Marlene L. Daut
- Vodou in Haitian Memory: The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination (2016) edited by Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon S. Cleophat
- The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism: The Practical Consciousness of the African People of Haiti (2016) by Paul Mocombe
- Thinking in Public: Faith, Secular Humanism, and Development in Jacques Roumain (2017) by Celucien L. Joseph
- Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (2017) by Marlene L. Daut
- Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa (2018) edited by Celucien L. Joseph, Jean Eddy Saint Paul, and Glodel Mezilas