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Tree of liberty : cultural legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic world / Doris Lorraine Garraway

By: Garraway, Doris LorraineContributor(s): Garraway, Doris Lorraine | Arnold, James AMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New DelhiSeries: New World studiesPublication details: Charlottesville London : University of Virginia Press, 2008Description: 280p. 24cmISBN: 9780813926865Subject(s): History | History of North America | Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda | Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Historiography | RevolutionDDC classification: 972.9403 GAR

Contents:

ntroduction / Doris L. Garraway -- 1. READING THE REVOLUTION; CONTEMPORARY DISCOURSE AND IDEOLOGY: Talk about Haiti: The Archive and Atlantic's Haitian Revolution / Ada Ferrer ; Toussaint Louverture, Spin doctor? Launching the Haitian Revolution in the French media / Deborah Jenson ; "Legitime defense": Universalism and nationalism in the discourse of the Haitian Revolution / Doris L. Garraway -- 2. AFTER THE REVOLUTION: RETHINKING EMANCIPATION, POSTCOLONIALISM, AND TRANSNATIONALISM: "Charged with sympathy for Haiti": Harnessing the power of blackness and cosmopolitanism in the wake of the Haitian Revolution / Ifeoma C.K. Nwankwo ; "Is he, am I, a hero?": Self-referentiality and the colonial legacy in Aime Cesaire's Toussaint Louverture / E. Anthony Hurley ; Irrational revolutions: Colonial intersubjectivity and dialects in Marie Chauvet's "Amour" / Valerie Kaussen ; Chroniques de la francophonie triomphante: Haiti, France, and the Debray Report (2004) / Chris Bongie -- 3. LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION: Recuperating the Haitian Revolution in literature: From Victor Hugo to Derek Walcott / A. James Arnold ; Toward new paradigms in Caribbean studies: the impact of the Haitian Revolution on our literatures / Jean Jonassaint ; "The first epic of the New World": But how shall it be written? / Paul Breslin.

Summary: Argues that the Haitian Revolution nonetheless had an enduring cultural and political impact, particularly on peoples and communities that have been marginalized in the historical record and absent from the discourses of Western historiography. This book interrogates the literary, historical, and political discourses that the Revolution produced

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ntroduction / Doris L. Garraway --
1. READING THE REVOLUTION; CONTEMPORARY DISCOURSE AND IDEOLOGY: Talk about Haiti: The Archive and Atlantic's Haitian Revolution / Ada Ferrer ; Toussaint Louverture, Spin doctor? Launching the Haitian Revolution in the French media / Deborah Jenson ; "Legitime defense": Universalism and nationalism in the discourse of the Haitian Revolution / Doris L. Garraway --
2. AFTER THE REVOLUTION: RETHINKING EMANCIPATION, POSTCOLONIALISM, AND TRANSNATIONALISM: "Charged with sympathy for Haiti": Harnessing the power of blackness and cosmopolitanism in the wake of the Haitian Revolution / Ifeoma C.K. Nwankwo ; "Is he, am I, a hero?": Self-referentiality and the colonial legacy in Aime Cesaire's Toussaint Louverture / E. Anthony Hurley ; Irrational revolutions: Colonial intersubjectivity and dialects in Marie Chauvet's "Amour" / Valerie Kaussen ; Chroniques de la francophonie triomphante: Haiti, France, and the Debray Report (2004) / Chris Bongie --
3. LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION: Recuperating the Haitian Revolution in literature: From Victor Hugo to Derek Walcott / A. James Arnold ; Toward new paradigms in Caribbean studies: the impact of the Haitian Revolution on our literatures / Jean Jonassaint ; "The first epic of the New World": But how shall it be written? / Paul Breslin.

Argues that the Haitian Revolution nonetheless had an enduring cultural and political impact, particularly on peoples and communities that have been marginalized in the historical record and absent from the discourses of Western historiography. This book interrogates the literary, historical, and political discourses that the Revolution produced

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