Tropics of Haiti : race and the literary history of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic world, 1789-1865 / Marlene L. Daut.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daut, Marlene L., author.

Series:

Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 8.

Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804--Literature and the revolution.

Haiti.

Haiti--Politics and government--1804-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This title provides a literary history of the Haitian Revolution that explores how scientific ideas about 'race' affected 19th-century understandings of the Haitian Revolution and, conversely, how understandings of the Haitian Revolution affected 19th-century scientific ideas about race.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The "Mulatto/a" Vengeance of 'Haitian Exceptionalism'

Part One

"Monstrous Hybridity" in Colonial and Revolutionary Writing from Saint-Domingue

Baron de Vastey, Colonial Discourse, and the Global "Scientific" Sphere

Victor Hugo and the Rhetorical Possibilities of "Monstrous Hybridity" in Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary Fiction

Part Two

Moreau de Saint-Méry's Daughter and the Anti-Slavery Muse of La Mulâtre comme il y a beaucoup de blanches (1803)

'Born to Command': Leonora Sansay and the Paradoxes of Female Benevolence as Resistance in Zelica

the Creole

'Theresa' to the Rescue! African American Women's Resistance and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution

Part Three

"Black" Son, "White" Father: The Tragic "Mulatto/a" and the Haitian Revolution in Victor Séjour's 'Le Mulâtre'

Between the Family and the Nation: Lamartine, Toussaint Louverture, and the "Interracial" Family Romance of the Haitian Revolution

A 'Quarrel between Two Brothers': Eméric Bergeaud's Ideal History of the Haitian Revolution

Part Four

The Color of History: The Transatlantic Abolitionist Movement and the 'Never-to-be-Forgiven Course of the Mulattoes'

Victor Schoelcher, 'L'imagination Jaune,' and the Francophone Genealogy of the 'Mulatto Legend of History'

'Let us be Humane after the Victory': Pierre Faubert's 'New Humanism'

CODA: Today's 'Haitian Exceptionalism'

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 11, 2016).

ISBN:

9781781382394

1781382395