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Modernity Disavowed – Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution de Sibylle Fischer

Modernity Disavowed – Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution

Autor Sibylle Fischer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 apr 2004
A study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian revolution (1791-1804). It reveals how the radical antislavery politics of this seminal event have been suppressed and ignored in historical and cultural records over the years.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822332909
ISBN-10: 0822332906
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 10 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 168 x 214 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Locul publicării:United States

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Sibylle Fischer

Textul de pe ultima copertă

""Modernity Disavowed "is a superior work. It is not only important but also needed."--Alicia Rios, coeditor of "The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader"

Cuprins

Preface ix
Introduction: Tuncations of Modernity 1
Part I. Cuba
1. The Deadly Hermenuetics of the Trial of Jose Antonio Aponte 41
2. Civilization and Barbarism: Cuban Wall Painting 57
3. Beyon National Culture, the Abject: The Case of Placido 77
4. Cuban Antislavery Narratives and the Origins of Literary Discourse 107
Part II. Santo Domingo / The Dominican Republic
5. Memory, Trauma, History 131
6. Guilt and Betrayal in Santo Domingo 155
7. What Do the Haitians Want? 169
8. Fictions of Literary History 180
Part III. Saint Domingue / Haiti
9. Literature and the Theater of Revolution 201
10. “General Liberty, or The Planters in Paris” 214
11. Foundational Fictions: Postrevolutionary Constitutions I 227
12. Life in the Kingdom of the North 245
13. Liberty and Reason of State: Postrevolutionary Constitutions II 260
Conclusion 273
Appendix A. Imperial Constitution of Haiti 275
Appendix B. Chronology 283
Notes 287
Index 355