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Deborah Jenson

Deborah Jenson

Professor Emeritus of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
deborah.jenson@duke.edu
205 Language Center, Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
205 Language Center, Box 90257, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Plot and counter-plantation: Jean Casimir and captive modernity

Journal article Cultural Dynamics · August 2024 The Jamaican philosopher Sylvia Wynter’s 1971 essay “Novel and History, Plot and Plantation” presented a synthesis of the Caribbean at large as “the classic plantation area” because it was “’planted’ with people”, who would themselves exist as “adj ... Full text Open Access Cite

La lutte continue: Louis Mars and the genesis of ethnopsychiatry.

Journal article The American psychologist · May 2023 The scientific contributions of Western mental health professionals have been lauded and leveraged for global mental health responses to varying degrees of success. In recent years, the necessity of recognizing the inefficiencies of solely etic and Western ... Full text Open Access Cite

Ceremonies Lost and Found: Global South Critical Philosophy against Cognitive Exceptionalism

Journal article PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America · 2022 Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Maroon nation: a history of revolutionary Haiti

Journal article The Historian · April 3, 2021 Full text Open Access Cite

Conversational analysis of consciousness during seizures.

Journal article Epilepsy Behav · November 2020 OBJECTIVE: The objectives of the study were to 1) investigate how patients with epilepsy describe the subjective, conscious experience of having a seizure and 2) determine whether certain themes and descriptions correspond to specific types of epilepsy. ME ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness

Journal article AMERICAN LITERATURE · March 1, 2020 Link to item Cite

Cholera in Haiti and other Caribbean regions, 19th century.

Journal article Emerging infectious diseases · November 2011 Medical journals and other sources do not show evidence that cholera occurred in Haiti before 2010, despite the devastating effect of this disease in the Caribbean region in the 19th century. Cholera occurred in Cuba in 1833-1834; in Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto ... Full text Open Access Cite

Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination

Journal article INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES · January 1, 2011 Link to item Cite

Dessalines’s American Proclamations of the Haitian Independence

Journal article The Journal of Haitian Studies · 2010 Assessment of the publication of Haitian leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines’ independence documents in the American journalistic sphere, 1804-1806. ... Open Access Cite

Hegel and Dessalines: Philosophy and the African Diaspora

Journal article New West Indian Guide · 2010 Open Access Cite

Hegel and Dessalines: Philosophy and the African Diaspora

Journal article New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids · January 1, 2010 [First paragraph]Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History. Susan Buck-Morss. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. xii + 164 pp. (Paper US$ 16.95)Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment. Nick Nesbitt. Cha ... Full text Cite

Mimetic Mastery and Colonial Mimicry In the First Franco-Antillean Creole Anthology

Journal article The Yale Journal of Criticism · March 2004 The anonymous 1811 Idylles et chansons, ou essais de po�sie cr�ole has been received as a minor work of Creole poetry by a single author. This essay demonstrates that it is actually the first known Creole literary anthology, containi ... Full text Cite

Louise Ackermann's Monstrous Nature

Journal article Symposium · 2000 Open Access Cite