Toward a Literary Psychoanalysis of Postcolonial Haiti: Desire, Violence, and the Mimetic Crisis in Marie Chauvet's Amour. Garraway, D. L. Romanic Review, 104(3/4):199--111, May, 2013.
Toward a Literary Psychoanalysis of Postcolonial Haiti: Desire, Violence, and the Mimetic Crisis in Marie Chauvet's Amour [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
The article examines the concepts of desire, violence, and the mimetic crisis in Haitian writer Marie Chauvet's novel "Amour." Topics covered include the fascination of the critics about the destructive psychosexual complex of the novel's protagonist and first-person narrator Claire Clamont and how her neurosis is set in 1930s Haiti, which marked the last years of authoritarian leader Stenio Vincent.
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  title = {Toward a {Literary} {Psychoanalysis} of {Postcolonial} {Haiti}: {Desire}, {Violence}, and the {Mimetic} {Crisis} in {Marie} {Chauvet}'s {Amour}},
  volume = {104},
  issn = {00358118},
  shorttitle = {Toward a {Literary} {Psychoanalysis} of {Postcolonial} {Haiti}},
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  abstract = {The article examines the concepts of desire, violence, and the mimetic crisis in Haitian writer Marie Chauvet's novel "Amour." Topics covered include the fascination of the critics about the destructive psychosexual complex of the novel's protagonist and first-person narrator Claire Clamont and how her neurosis is set in 1930s Haiti, which marked the last years of authoritarian leader Stenio Vincent.},
  number = {3/4},
  urldate = {2015-09-25TZ},
  journal = {Romanic Review},
  author = {Garraway, Doris L.},
  month = {May},
  year = {2013},
  keywords = {AMOUR (Book), CHAUVET, Marie, NEUROSES, PSYCHOSEXUAL disorders, VINCENT, Stenio},
  pages = {199--111}
}

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