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# Deborah Jenson CV

Professor of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
deborah.jenson@duke.edu
205 Language Center, Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
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## Selected Publications

### 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 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 Link to item Cite

### Editorial: Representation in neuroscience and humanities.

Journal Article Front Integr Neurosci · 2022 Full text Link to item Cite

### Maroon nation: a history of revolutionary Haiti

Journal Article The Historian · April 3, 2021 Full text 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 Link to item Cite

### Marceline Desbordes-Valmore créolisée et créolisatrice. Décolonisation et préciosité dans « Chanson créole » (1819)

Journal Article Cahiers Marceline Desbordes-Valmore · 2020 Cite

### Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness

Journal Article AMERICAN LITERATURE · 2020 Cite

### See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor.

Journal Article AMERICAN LITERATURE · 2020 Cite

### Barbara E. Johnson (1947-2009)

Chapter · July 15, 2016 Cite

### Living by Metaphor in the Haitian Revolution: Tigers and Cognitive Theory

Journal Article · 2016 Open Access Cite

### Poetry of the Haitian Independence

Book · 2015 At the turn of the nineteenth century, Haiti became the first and only modern country born from a slave revolt. During the first decades of Haitian independence, a wealth of original poetry was created by the inhabitants of the former French Caribbean isla ... Link to item Cite

### Toussaint Louverture, genio 'cimarrôn' y multimodial

Chapter · 2015 Cite

### The Haitian Revolution

Chapter · 2013 Cite

### Sources and interpretations jean-jacques dessalines and the African character of the haitian revolution

Journal Article William and Mary Quarterly · July 1, 2012 Full text Open Access Cite

### Haiti Can Be Rich Again

Other New York Times · January 8, 2012 Cite

### Introduction: Caribbean Entanglements in Times of Crises

Journal Article The Global South · 2012 Full text Open Access Cite

### Humanities in the Lab: Rethinking Haitian Studies

Journal Article Diversity and Democracy: Civic Learning for Shared Futures · 2012 Cite

### States of Ghetto, Ghettos of States: Haiti and the ‘Era de Francia’ in the Dominican Republic, 1804-1808

Journal Article The Global South · 2012 Open Access Cite

### <em>Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon</em>, by Kamaia L. Glover

Journal Article Research in African Literatures · 2012 Full text Open Access Cite

### Kidnapped Narratives: Mobility without Autonomy and the Nation/Novel Analogy

Journal Article · November 25, 2011 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 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 Link to item Cite

### Editorial: Representation in neuroscience and humanities.

Journal Article Front Integr Neurosci · 2022 Full text Link to item Cite

### Maroon nation: a history of revolutionary Haiti

Journal Article The Historian · April 3, 2021 Full text 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 Link to item Cite

### Marceline Desbordes-Valmore créolisée et créolisatrice. Décolonisation et préciosité dans « Chanson créole » (1819)

Journal Article Cahiers Marceline Desbordes-Valmore · 2020 Cite

### Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness

Journal Article AMERICAN LITERATURE · 2020 Cite

### See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor.

Journal Article AMERICAN LITERATURE · 2020 Cite

### Barbara E. Johnson (1947-2009)

Chapter · July 15, 2016 Cite

### Living by Metaphor in the Haitian Revolution: Tigers and Cognitive Theory

Journal Article · 2016 Open Access Cite

### Poetry of the Haitian Independence

Book · 2015 At the turn of the nineteenth century, Haiti became the first and only modern country born from a slave revolt. During the first decades of Haitian independence, a wealth of original poetry was created by the inhabitants of the former French Caribbean isla ... Link to item Cite

### Toussaint Louverture, genio 'cimarrôn' y multimodial

Chapter · 2015 Cite

### The Haitian Revolution

Chapter · 2013 Cite

### Sources and interpretations jean-jacques dessalines and the African character of the haitian revolution

Journal Article William and Mary Quarterly · July 1, 2012 Full text Open Access Cite

### Haiti Can Be Rich Again

Other New York Times · January 8, 2012 Cite

### Introduction: Caribbean Entanglements in Times of Crises

Journal Article The Global South · 2012 Full text Open Access Cite

### Humanities in the Lab: Rethinking Haitian Studies

Journal Article Diversity and Democracy: Civic Learning for Shared Futures · 2012 Cite

### States of Ghetto, Ghettos of States: Haiti and the ‘Era de Francia’ in the Dominican Republic, 1804-1808

Journal Article The Global South · 2012 Open Access Cite

### <em>Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon</em>, by Kamaia L. Glover

Journal Article Research in African Literatures · 2012 Full text Open Access Cite

### Kidnapped Narratives: Mobility without Autonomy and the Nation/Novel Analogy

Journal Article · November 25, 2011 Full text Open Access 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

### 19th-Century Caribbean Cholera Timemap

Dataset · 2011 Historical epidemiology research and a virtual interface have fused in one of the Haiti Lab’s recent projects, the 19th-Century Caribbean Cholera Timemap. The project, led by Haiti Lab co-director Deborah Jenson and affiliated faculty Victoria Szabo (also ... Link to item Cite

### Beyond the Slave Narrative: Sex, Politics, and Manuscripts in the Haitian Revolution

Book · 2011 An introduction to the Afro-diasporic literature of the Haitian Revolution and its New World impact (with particular attention to its American journalistic dissemination) A presentation of Jean-Jacques Dessalines as a radical black Atlantic voice in a trad ... Link to item Cite

### Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties

Book · 2011 Cite

### Globalizing the Unconscious

Book · 2011 Cite

### Placing Haiti in Geopsychoanalytic Space: Toward a Postcolonial Concept of Traumatic Mimesis

Chapter · 2011 Cite

### Surrealism and the Avant Garde Novel, and The Decadent Novel

Chapter · 2011 Cite

### Literary Biomimesis: Mirror Neurons and the Ontological Priority of Representation

Journal Article California Italian Studies · 2011 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

### The Writing of Disaster in Haiti: Signifying Cataclysm from Slave Revolution to Earth Quake

Chapter · 2010 Cite

### Francophone World Literature (Littérature-monde) Cosmopolitanism, and Decadence: ‘Citizen of the World’ without the Citizen?

Chapter · 2010 Cite

### Francophone World Literature (Littérature-monde), Cosmopolitanism and Decadence: 'Citizen of the World' without the Citizen?

Chapter · 2010 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

### The Common Without Copies, the International Without Cosmopolitanism: Marx Against the Romanticism of Likeness

Journal Article Rethinking Marxism · 2010 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

### Mirror Revolutions: Ourika and Saint-Domingue

Chapter · 2009 Cite

### Historical Timeline

Chapter · 2009 Cite

### Sarah, An English Translation

Book · 2008 Cite

### Sarah, The Original French Text

Book · 2008 Cite

### Toussaint Louverture, Spin Doctor? Launching the Haitian Revolution in the French Media

Chapter · 2008 Cite

### Myth, History, and Witnessing in Marceline Desbordes-Valmore’s Caribbean Poetics

Journal Article · 2007 Open Access Cite

### Before Malcolm X, Dessalines: A ‘French’ Tradition of Black Atlantic Radicalism

Journal Article · 2007 Open Access Cite

### Fétichisme de la marchandise: la poésie des courtisanes noires ou de couleur à Saint-Domingue

Chapter · 2007 Cite

### Myth, history, and witnessing in Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's Caribbean poetics

Journal Article Esprit Createur · January 1, 2007 Full text Cite

### The persons and things school: Parrots, peasants, and pariahs in "Un Coeur simple" and la Chaumière indienne

Journal Article Differences · December 1, 2006 Full text Open Access Cite

### The Haiti Issue

Other Yale French Studies · 2005 Cite

### The Haiti Issue: 1804 and Nineteenth-Century French Studies

Journal Article Yale French Studies · 2005 Link to item Cite

### From the Kidnapping(s) of the Louvertures to the Alleged Kidnapping of Aristide: Legacies of Slavery in the Post/Colonial World

Other Yale French Studies · 2005 Link to item 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

### Helene Cixous, Translator of History and Legend: "Ce transport vertigineux"

Chapter · January 1, 2004 Many readers of early theoretical texts by Cixous were disconcerted by her later plays and asked themselves how both types of writing could be reconciled. After her own translation of La prise de l'ecole de Madhubai into English, Deborah Jenson relates Cix ... Full text Cite

### Trauma and Its Representations: The Social Life of Mimesis in Post-Revolutionary France

Book · 2001 Cite

### Louise Ackermann's Monstrous Nature

Journal Article Symposium · 2000 Open Access Cite

### "Coming to Writing" and Other Essays by Hélène Cixous

Book · 1992 This collection presents six essays by one of France's most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, Cixous here explores how the problematics of the sexes--viewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle b ... Link to item Cite