Author Archives: Raphael Dalleo

About Raphael Dalleo

Raphael Dalleo is Professor of English at Bucknell University. His book, American Imperialism’s Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism, won the Caribbean Studies Association’s 2017 award for best book about the Caribbean. He is author of Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere, editor of Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies, coeditor of Haiti and the Americas, and coauthor of The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature. Raphael Dalleo is Professor of English at Bucknell University. His book, American Imperialism’s Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism, won the Caribbean Studies Association’s 2017 award for best book about the Caribbean. He is author of Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere, editor of Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies, coeditor of Haiti and the Americas, and coauthor of The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature.

Sylvia Wynter’s The Hills of Hebron and the Caribbean

March 3, 2026 by
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Abstract As much attention as Sylvia Wynter’s critique of Western Man has garnered during the past decade by scholars engaging with her essays of the 1980s to 2000s, her 1962 novel The Hills of Hebron foreshadows and dramatizes many of the concerns of the later theoretical writings. Reading The Hills of Hebron as a novel about limited and limiting conceptions of the human places Wynter’s thought into the context of the debates about human rights taking place in the context of decolonization during the 1960s. Remembering these debates, Continue reading → Continue reading →