Haitian revolutionary fictions : an anthology / edited and with translations by Marlene L. Daut, Grégory Pierrot, and Marion C. Rohrleitner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marlene L. Daut

Contributor:

Daut, Marlene L., editor, translator.

Pierrot, Grégory.

Rohrleitner, Marion Christina, editor, translator.

Series:

New World Studies

Language:

English

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--19th century.6.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--19th century--Translations.

Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804--Literary collections.

Haiti.

Genre:

Drama.

Fiction.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lxii, 946 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.

Language Note:

Some texts selected translated into English from multiple languages.

Summary:

"This anthology brings together a transnational selection of literature, some translated into English, about the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), from the beginnings of the conflicts that resulted in it to the end of the nineteenth century. It includes contextualizing headnotes and footnotes"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A World of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions, by Marlene L. Daut

Editorial Note

Anonymous

A Comical Dialogue between Sawney and Bonaparte (ca. 1803-1805)

A Poetical Epistle to the King of Hayti (1817)

Dessalines, Tyrant of the Blacks and Murderer of the Whites in Saint- Domingue: A Canvas from the Gallery of Political Monsters (Dessalines, Tyrann der Schwarzen und Mörder der Weissen auf Santo Domingo: Ein Gemälde aus der Galerie politischer Ungeheuer) (1805)

Anonymous

Bug Jargal: A Historical Romance from the Times of the Negro Rebellion in Saint- Domingue . . . after Victor Hugo (Bug Jargal: Historisch-romantische Erzählung aus den Zeiten der Neger-Revolution auf St. Domingo . . . nach Victor Hugo) (1828)

The Mulatta, as Virtuous as Any White Woman, a Potential Sequel to The Negro Equaled by Few Whites (La Mulâtre, comme il y a beaucoup de blanches, ouvrage pouvant faire suite au Negre comme il y a peu de blancs) (1803)

The Eighteen Adventures of Citizen Cacambeau (Les Dix-Huit Aventures du Citoyen Cacambeau) (1804)

Anonymous

The Haïtiade, Poem in Eight Cantos (L'Haïtiade, poeme en huits chants) (ca. 1825-1828)

The Revolutionary Philanthropist

or, Hecatomb in Haiti (Le Philantrope revolutionnaire

ou, L'hecatombe à Haïti) (1811)

Sambo's Song: On Going to Hayti (ca. 1830s)

Version from Frances Butler Leigh, Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation since the War (1883)

The Father and Daughter (1836)

Ode to His Majesty Charles X on the Emancipation of Saint-Domingue (L'Ode à S. M. Charles X sur l'affranchissement de Saint-Domingue) (1825)

Zelica, the Creole (1820)

Idylls and Songs

or, Poetical Essays in Creole (Idylles et chansons

ou, Essais de poësie creole par un habitant d'Hayti) (1811)

Ode on the Insurrection of the Slaves at St. Domingo (1796)

Dramatic Proverb (Proverbe dramatique) (1836)

Henry Gardiner Adams

Biographical Sketches-Toussaint Louverture (1854)

Gabriel François Brueys d'Aigalliers

Selected Works (Oeuvres choisies) (1805)

J. H. Amherst

Christophe, King of Hayti (1821)

Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Prosper Saint-Alme

The Massacres in St. Domingue: Historical Events (Les Massacres de St. Domingue: Évenemens historiques) (1837)

Coriolan Ardouin

The Red Bridge (Le Pont rouge) (1881)

Martial Aubertin and Jean-Sebastien-Fulchran Bosquier

Monbars, the Exterminator

or, The Last Freebooters (Monbars, l'exterminateur

ou, Les derniers flibustiers) (1807)

Marie Augustin

The Macandal: Episode from the Insurrection of the Blacks in Saint-Domingue (Le Macandal: Épisode de l'insurrection des noirs à Saint-Domingue) (1892)

Jules Berlioz d'Auriac

Notes:

The Black War: Memories of Saint-Domingue (La Guerre noire: Souvenirs de Saint-Domingue) (1862).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Daut, Marlene L. Haitian Revolutionary Fictions

ISBN:

9780813945712

0813945712

OCLC:

1506481153