Echoes of the Haitian revolution, 1804-2004 / edited by Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Munro, Martin.

Walcott-Hackshaw, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Civilization.

Haiti--Civilization--19th century.

Haiti.

Haiti--Civilization--20th century.

Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804--Influence.

Haitian literature--History and criticism.

Haitian literature.

Haiti--Politics and government--1804-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xiii, 191 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2008.

Summary:

The bicentenary of Haitian independence in 2004 triggered a renewed interest in Haitian history and culture. In many ways, however, much work is still required in this fertile field. Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its Cultural Aftershocks, the first collection of essays edited by Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, addressed the repercussions of the Haitian Revolution in Haiti, the Caribbean, North America and Europe. This present volume develops and complements the previous collection to meet the growing demand for original scholarly work on Haiti. Widening the cultural lens to include diasporic studies, art, and questions of race and gender, Echoes of the Haitian Revolution exposes how the history of Haiti has shaped our ideas of race, nation and civilization in ways that we are often unaware of. Haiti's lessons continue to engage us in a dynamic dialogue that compels us to question and revisit received arguments. The essays collected here provoke and stimulate these necessary conversations. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Hidden in Plain View

Evasions, Invasions and Invisible Nations / Edward E. Baptist 1

2 St Domingue Refugees in New Orleans

Identity and Cultural Influences / Nathalie Dessens 28

3 Arguing Around Toussaint

The Revolutionary in a Postcolonial Frame / Charles Forsdick 41

4 The Haitian Revolution and a North American Griot

The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture by Jacob Lawrence / Carolyn Williams 61

5 Reading in the Dark?

Racial Hierarchy and Miscegenation in Heinrich von Kleist's Die Verlobung in San Domingo / Wendy Sutherland 86

6 "Les Creoles Galantes?"

White Women and the Haitian Revolution / Kathleen Gyssels 95

7 Revolutionary Acts of Translation

Language and Freedom in Guy Endore's Babouk / William Scott 111

8 Letters Lost at Sea

Edwidge Danticat and Orality / Brenna Munro 122

9 Being Haitian in New York

Migration and Transnationalism in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory / Adlai Murdoch 134

10 Dancing at the Border

Cultural Translations and the Writer's Return / Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw 149

11 Hatred Cherie

History, Silence and Animosity in Three Haitian Novels / Martin Munro 163.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789766402129

9766402124

OCLC:

286503335