Reinterpreting the Haitian revolution and its cultural aftershocks /

Reinterpreting the Haitian revolution and its cultural aftershocks / edited by Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw. - Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2006. - 1 online resource (xvi, 184 pages)

Based on papers presented at a conference organized and held at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, June 2004 - Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Open letter to the Haitians of 2004 / Haiti Chimère : revolutionary universalism and its Caribbean context / Petrifying myths : lack and excess in Caribbean and Haitian histories / Lahens's revolution, or The words within / Edwidge Danticat's The farming of bones : traumatic memories and the translucent narrator / Theories of "race" and the Haitian revolution / Anténor Firmin : his legacy and continuing relevance / Re-creolizing swing : St Domingue refugees in the Govi of New Orleans / Haiti and the Haitian revolution in the political discourse of nineteenth-century Trinidad / The traveling revolution : situating Toussaint Louverture / What can Toussaint Louverture do for the Haitians of 2004? / René Despestre -- J. Michael Dash -- Martin Munro -- Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw -- Mireille Rosello -- Georges Fouron -- Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban -- Keith Cartwright -- Bridget Brereton -- Charles Forsdick -- René Depestre.

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9781435630956 (electronic bk.) 1435630955 (electronic bk.)


Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803.
Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803.


1791-1804


Haitian literature--History and criticism.
Nationalism--Haiti.
Littérature haïtienne (française)--Histoire et critique.
Nationalisme--Haïti.
HISTORY.
Civilization.
Haitian literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Nationalism.
Politics and government


Haiti--History--Influence.--Revolution, 1791-1804
Haiti--Civilization.
Haiti--Politics and government.
Haïti--Histoire--Influence.--1791-1804 (Révolution)
Haïti--Politique et gouvernement.
Haiti.

Haitian revolution Cultural aftershocks


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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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