Includes bibliographical references and index.

ContentsIntroduction. To Make Visible the “Invisible Epistemological Order”: Haiti, Singularity, and NewnessMillery PolynéI. Revolisyon/Kriz (Revolution/Crisis)1. Haiti, the Monstrous AnomalyNick Nesbitt2. Rethinking the Haitian CrisisGreg Beckett3. Remembering Charlemagne Péralte and His Defense of Haiti’s RevolutionYveline AlexisII. Moun/Demoun (Person/Dehumanized)4. Haiti: Fantasies of Bare LifeSibylle Fischer5. The Violence of Executive SilencePatrick Sylvain6. Religion at the Epicenter: Agency and Affiliation in Léogâne after the EarthquakeKaren RichmanIII. Èd (Aid)7. The Alliance for Progress: A Case Study of Failure of International Commitments to HaitiWien Weibert Arthus8. Urban Planning and the Rebuilding of Port-au-PrinceHarley F. Etienne9. Cholera and the Camps: Reaping the Republic of NGOsMark Schuller10. From Slave Revolt to a Blood Pact with Satan: The Evangelical Rewriting of Haitian HistoryElizabeth McAlister11. Twenty-First Century Haiti—A New Normal? A Conversation with Four Scholars of HaitiAlex Dupuy, Robert Fatton, Jr., Évelyne Trouillot, and Tatiana WahContributorsIndex

After Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010, aid workers and offers of support poured in from around the world. Tellingly, though, news reports on the catastrophe and relief efforts frequently included a pejorative description of the country that outsiders were determined to rebuild: the troubled island nation, a nation plagued by political violence. There was much talk of inventing a "new" Haiti, which would presumably mimic Western modes of development and thus mitigate political instability and crisis