Abstract
By way of a review of recent theories of the “global”, this article performs a close reading of Yanick Lahens's Failles (Paris: Sabine Wespieser Editeur, 2010) to argue that the text's “globalized frame of Haiti” is both literary and historical. Failles encompasses a number of genres that, looking within and without, offers a challenging critique of the international humanitarian response to Haiti. Lahens attempts to “recenter” Haiti by rereading the present through the past, notably through the discursive field of Albert Camus's critical journalism and his essay, L'Homme révolté (Essais. Paris:Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1965).
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