Stella A Novel of the Haitian Revolution

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergeaud, Emeric, 1818-1857, Author.

Contributor:

Mucher, Christen., Contributor.

Curtis, Lesley S., Contributor.

Series:

America and the long 19th century.

America and the long 19th century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National liberation movements--Fiction--Haiti.

National liberation movements.

Slavery--Fiction--History--Haiti.

Slavery.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

New York New York University Press 2015

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stella, first published in 1859, is an imaginative retelling of Haiti’s fight for independence from slavery and French colonialism. Set during the years of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), Stella tells the story of two brothers, Romulus and Remus, who help transform their homeland from the French colony of Saint-Domingue to the independent republic of Haiti. Inspired by the sacrifice of their African mother Marie and Stella, the spirit of Liberty, Romulus and Remus must learn to work together to found a new country based on the principles of freedom and equality. This new translation and critical edition of Émeric Bergeaud’s allegorical novel makes Stella available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Considered the first novel written by a Haitian, Stella tells of the devastation and deprivation that colonialism and slavery wrought upon Bergeaud’s homeland. Unique among nineteenth-century accounts, Stella gives a pro-Haitian version of the Haitian Revolution, a bloody but just struggle that emancipated a people, and it charges future generations with remembering the sacrifices and glory of their victory. Bergeaud's novel demonstrates that the Haitians—not the French—are the true inheritors of the French Revolution, and that Haiti is the realization of its republican ideals. At a time in which Haitian Studies is becoming increasingly important within the English-speaking world, this edition calls attention to the rich though under-examined world of nineteenth-century Haiti.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Editors’ Acknowledgments

Editors’ Introduction

Author’s Note

To the Reader

Stella

Glossary of Foreign Words and Expressions

Original Explanatory Notes

Editors’ Notes

About the Editors

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Forthcoming publication

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781479895427

1479895423

9781479827763

1479827762

OCLC:

921999375