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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 237–262.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Nathaniel A. Windon Abstract This essay argues that George Boyer Vashon’s epic poem, “Vincent Ogé” (1854), reframes the Haitian Revolution by aligning two moments of imminent revolution—Saint-Domingue in the late eighteenth century and the United States in the mid-nineteenth century—to suggest...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 799–820.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Anne W. Gulick Duke University Press 2006 Anne W. We Are Not the People:
Gulick The 1805 Haitian Constitution’s Challenge to
Political Legibility in the Age of Revolution
As the symbolic and pragmatic uses of Haiti change over...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2015
... Revolution and the United States. This sensational gothic novel invokes the Haitian Revolution even as its paratexts self-consciously worry about its place in the New York literary scene. The novel comments on the rise of a transatlantic literary market in which unfamiliar and aspiring figures such as D’Arcy...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 723–735.
Published: 01 December 2020
... associated with the 1791 Haitian Revolution, he is often described as a forefigure of the revolution; he was a laborer on the same plantation (owned by his absent enslaver, Lenormand de Mézy) at which the famous 1791 Bois Caiman gathering of the enslaved took place, which inaugurated the revolution...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 755–786.
Published: 01 December 2016
.... Lemoinne’s testament to Stowe’s novel offers a tonally appropriate contribution to the Moniteur ’s propaganda, which credits Haitian regeneration to Soulouque’s own revolution. For example, in the same January 29, 1853, issue in which Lemoinne’s introduction appears, Madiou prints a hymn written...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 379–381.
Published: 01 June 2020
... of Caribbeans and African Americans accustomed to casting the island nation as proof “that black people could be agents of world history” (vii). Because the “very premises” (6) of Caribbean, postcolonial, and African diaspora studies, among others, were shaped by heroic accounts of the Haitian Revolution...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and services are not new
in the present moment, of course. Rather, the contemporary interest
in networks has prompted scholars to attend to their expression in
the past, deepening our insight into both moments, and, as Benjamin
suggests, their conjunction.
Taking the Haitian Revolution...
Journal Article
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 459–490.
Published: 01 September 2019
... the Haitian Revolution to the emergence of the country as the first and only black republic in the Western Hemisphere. The slave-turned-maroon François Makandal played a key role in this story. Makandal, who was born in the colony, was cast as an avatar of the revolution to come because he had supposedly...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 892–894.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., focusing on writing about the Haitian Revolution and Mexican-American War, and those that involve a pairing of related authors writing on topics from the Cuban imaginary in the 1850s to the aesthetics of propaganda in the 1940s and 1950s. Even in the chapters not primarily structured around a historic...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 664–666.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Reviews 663
Hannah Foster, rhetoric of the Haitian Revolution, and Venture Smith’s 1798
slave narrative. Like Fichtelberg, Duane contextualizes Wheatley’s poetry in
a nuanced argumentative narrative about ways in which performative textual
practices mediate the “real” in the early American period...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 661–663.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., rhetoric of the Haitian Revolution, and Venture Smith’s 1798
slave narrative. Like Fichtelberg, Duane contextualizes Wheatley’s poetry in
a nuanced argumentative narrative about ways in which performative textual
practices mediate the “real” in the early American period.
Although Wheatley...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 666–668.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Reviews 663
Hannah Foster, rhetoric of the Haitian Revolution, and Venture Smith’s 1798
slave narrative. Like Fichtelberg, Duane contextualizes Wheatley’s poetry in
a nuanced argumentative narrative about ways in which performative textual
practices mediate the “real” in the early American period...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 668–670.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Reviews 663
Hannah Foster, rhetoric of the Haitian Revolution, and Venture Smith’s 1798
slave narrative. Like Fichtelberg, Duane contextualizes Wheatley’s poetry in
a nuanced argumentative narrative about ways in which performative textual
practices mediate the “real” in the early American period...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 670–673.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Reviews 663
Hannah Foster, rhetoric of the Haitian Revolution, and Venture Smith’s 1798
slave narrative. Like Fichtelberg, Duane contextualizes Wheatley’s poetry in
a nuanced argumentative narrative about ways in which performative textual
practices mediate the “real” in the early American period...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 673–675.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Reviews 663
Hannah Foster, rhetoric of the Haitian Revolution, and Venture Smith’s 1798
slave narrative. Like Fichtelberg, Duane contextualizes Wheatley’s poetry in
a nuanced argumentative narrative about ways in which performative textual
practices mediate the “real” in the early American period...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 675–678.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Reviews 663
Hannah Foster, rhetoric of the Haitian Revolution, and Venture Smith’s 1798
slave narrative. Like Fichtelberg, Duane contextualizes Wheatley’s poetry in
a nuanced argumentative narrative about ways in which performative textual
practices mediate the “real” in the early American period...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 678–680.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Reviews 663
Hannah Foster, rhetoric of the Haitian Revolution, and Venture Smith’s 1798
slave narrative. Like Fichtelberg, Duane contextualizes Wheatley’s poetry in
a nuanced argumentative narrative about ways in which performative textual
practices mediate the “real” in the early American period...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 825–827.
Published: 01 December 2015
... confronting the issue, especially when reading the
narrative ruptures and structural logics of Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Vir-
ginia (1785) in light of Caribbean slave revolts (and of Jefferson’s revisions to the
Notes after the outbreak of the Haitian revolution). But one is also tempted...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 March 2015
... complicated discourse: that of mesmerism as fil-
tered through its residual associations with the Haitian Revolution.
Mesmerism experienced a wide popularity in the United States in
the late 1830s, and critics have long noted how many of our most
famous writers developed themes derived from...
Journal Article
American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 167–194.
Published: 01 June 2021
... ( 2009 : 156) notes, the presence of the maroon community urges readers of the sketch to look past individual actors toward the coming tide of the Haitian revolution. Protected in the midst of a dense forest, the maroons encode the latent promise of collective action. Indeed, during the final...
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