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Modernity disavowed : Haiti and the cultures of slavery in the age of revolution / Sibylle Fischer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fischer, Sibylle, 1962-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave rebellions.
- Black people--Cuba--History.
- Black people.
- Black people--Dominican Republic--History.
- Literature and history.
- Slavery in literature.
- Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804--Literature and the revolution.
- Haiti.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (382 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A study of the ways that knowledge of the slave revolt in Haiti was denied/repressed/disavowed within the network of slave-owning states and plantation societies of the New World, and the effects and meaning of this disavowal.
- Contents:
- Truncations of modernity
- The deadly hermeneutics of the trial of Jose Antonio Aponte
- Civilization and barbarism : Cuban wall painting
- Beyond national culture, the abject : the case of Placido
- Cuban antislavery narratives and the origins of literary discourse
- Memory, trauma, history
- Guilt and betrayal in Santo Domingo
- What do the Haitians want?
- Fictions of literary history
- Literature and the theater of revolution
- "General liberty or The planters in Paris"
- Foundational fictions : postrevolutionary constitutions I
- Life in the kingdom of the north
- Liberty and reason of state : postrevolutionary constitutions II.
- Notes:
- "A John Hope Franklin Center book."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-354) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613023711
- 9781283023719
- 1283023717
- 9780822385509
- 0822385503
- OCLC:
- 191855718
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