Disenchanted Images: Haiti and Haitian Women in Two Stories by Edwidge Danticat
Images elude and challenge us. Concrete and abstract, they percolate in our ways of interpreting the world. Constructing and constructed from our understanding of the contextual, they appear in a presumed innocence sustained in a mimetic conception of the image. However, in the tensions between what...
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I28-R268-article-170712025-09-03T21:14:51Z Disenchanted Images: Haiti and Haitian Women in Two Stories by Edwidge Danticat Imágenes desencantadas: Haití y la mujer haitiana en dos cuentos de Edwidge Danticat Revelli, María Luz Powerful image Female characters Right to look Politics of belonging Edwidge Danticat Imagen poderosa Personajes femeninos Derecho a mirar Políticas de pertenencia Edwidge Danticat Images elude and challenge us. Concrete and abstract, they percolate in our ways of interpreting the world. Constructing and constructed from our understanding of the contextual, they appear in a presumed innocence sustained in a mimetic conception of the image. However, in the tensions between what is built and what is given, the social permeates the visual and the visual the social and in these interstices there is the possibility to reflect upon regimes of (in)visibility (Reguillo, 2023). The images of Haiti that the Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat constructs in her narratives bring into play stereotypical geopolitical notions while addressing gender issues. From a reading anchored in the power of images (Mirzoeff, 2011; Didi-Huberman, 2015) and the intersectionality of oppression (Hill-Collins, 1990/2000), a possible reading of “Hot-Air Balloons” and “The Port-au-Prince Marriage Special” is offered, both texts published in an anthology of stories by Edwidge Danticat entitled Everything Inside (2019). In the narratives, the alleged dichotomies between past and present, paradise and destruction, local and migrant, oppressor and oppressed are blurred and interwoven, enabling new ways of seeing. Las imágenes nos eluden y nos interpelan. Concretas y abstractas se cuelan en nuestras formas de interpretar el mundo. Ordenando y ordenadas desde nuestro entendimiento de lo contextual se presentan a través de una presunta inocencia sostenida en una concepción mimética de la imagen. Sin embargo, en las tensiones entre lo construido y lo dado se cuela lo social de lo visual y lo visual de lo social y en esos intersticios se abren los espacios para reflexionar sobre regímenes de (in)visibilidad (Reguillo, 2023). Las imágenes de Haití que construye la escritora haitiano-estadounidense Edwidge Danticat en sus narrativas ponen en juego nociones geopolíticas estereotipadas al mismo tiempo que atienden a cuestiones de género. Desde una lectura anclada en el poder de las imágenes (Mirzoeff, 2011; Didi-Huberman, 2015) y las interseccionalidades de opresión (Hill-Collins, 1990/2000) se ofrecerá un posible abordaje de “Hot-Air Balloons” y “The Port-au-Prince Marriage Special”, textos publicados en una antología de cuentos de Edwidge Danticat titulada Everything Inside (2019). En las narrativas las presuntas dicotomías entre pasado y presente, paraíso y destrucción, local y migrante, opresor y oprimido se desdibujan y entretejen habilitando nuevas formas de ver. Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires) 2025-05-14 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/zama/article/view/17071 10.34096/zama.a.n17.17071 Zama; No. 17 (2025) Zama; Núm. 17 (2025) Zama; n. 17 (2025) 2422-6017 1851-6866 spa https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/zama/article/view/17071/15205 Derechos de autor 2025 María Luz Revelli |
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Images elude and challenge us. Concrete and abstract, they percolate in our ways of interpreting the world. Constructing and constructed from our understanding of the contextual, they appear in a presumed innocence sustained in a mimetic conception of the image. However, in the tensions between what is built and what is given, the social permeates the visual and the visual the social and in these interstices there is the possibility to reflect upon regimes of (in)visibility (Reguillo, 2023).
The images of Haiti that the Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat constructs in her narratives bring into play stereotypical geopolitical notions while addressing gender issues. From a reading anchored in the power of images (Mirzoeff, 2011; Didi-Huberman, 2015) and the intersectionality of oppression (Hill-Collins, 1990/2000), a possible reading of “Hot-Air Balloons” and “The Port-au-Prince Marriage Special” is offered, both texts published in an anthology of stories by Edwidge Danticat entitled Everything Inside (2019). In the narratives, the alleged dichotomies between past and present, paradise and destruction, local and migrant, oppressor and oppressed are blurred and interwoven, enabling new ways of seeing. |
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