Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its Cultural Aftershocks

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walcott-Hackshaw, Elizabeth, Contributor.

Munro, Martin, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haitian literature--History and criticism--Haiti.

Haitian literature.

Nationalism.

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

Haiti.

Haiti--Civilization.

Haiti--Politics and government.

Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803.

Toussaint Louverture.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of the West Indies Press 2006

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Open letter to the Haitians of 2004 / René Despestre

Haïti chimère : revolutionary universalism and its Caribbean context / J. Michael Dash

Petrifying myths : lack and excess in Caribbean and Haitian histories / Martin Munro

Lahens's revolution, or, The words within / Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw

Edwidge Danticat's The farming of bones : traumatic memories and the translucent narrator / Mireille Rosello

Theories of "race" and the Haitian revolution / Georges Fouron

Anténor Firmin : his legacy and continuing relevance / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban

Re-Creolizing swing : St. Domingue refugees in the Govi of New Orleans / Keith Cartwright

Haiti and the Haitian revolution in the political discourse of nineteenth-century Trinidad / Bridget Brereton

The travelling revolutionary : situating Toussaint Louverture / Charles Forsdick

What can Toussaint Louverture do for the Haitians of 2004? / René Depestre.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-4356-3095-5