TY - BOOK AU - Garraway, Doris Lorraine, AU - Garraway, Doris Lorraine, AU - Arnold, James A TI - Tree of liberty : : cultural legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic world T2 - New World studies SN - 9780813926865 U1 - 972.9403 GAR PY - 2008/// CY - Charlottesville London PB - University of Virginia Press, KW - History KW - History of North America KW - Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda KW - Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Historiography KW - Revolution N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -