Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool.
Christian Høgsbjerg is Teaching Fellow in Caribbean History at University College London's Institute of the Americas.
Robert A. Hill is Research Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool.
Christian Høgsbjerg is Teaching Fellow in Caribbean History at University College London's Institute of the Americas.
Robert A. Hill is Research Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Refiguring Resistance: Historiography, Fiction, and the Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture
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Published:January 2017
In this section, Charles Forsdick focuses on the ways (1) in historiography, but more notably in a range of other cultural representations, the legacies of the Haitian Revolution have been personified, singularized, and associated with individual leaders (most notably Toussaint Louverture); and (2) in these representations, accounts of popular resistance have been to a greater or lesser extent downplayed and obscured. Associated with this reliance on revolutionary heroism is a questioning of the extent to which an emphasis on the Haitian Revolution and the clear-cut judgments of success and failure to which this historical process often seems to lend itself have not only eclipsed other instances of resistance but also encouraged the development of a one-dimensional focus on autonomy and rebellion that denies the complexity of those various sites seen as dynamic “terrains of struggle” that characterize the everyday culture and geography of slave societies.
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