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... Chapter 1 demonstrates how literary texts creatively mine and transform a silenced history of suicide under French slavery, using points of suicidal resistance as occasions for remaking Caribbean history. Fabienne Kanor’s fugue-like text Humus (2006) and Daniel Maximin’s quasi-epistolary novel...

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... methodological nationalism plausible future Atlantic history lived geography geographic unit of analysis mental map political imaginary nation-state Atlantic historian ...

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... history by explaining how the approach of Creating Spaces, Envisioning Futures makes it possible to go beyond compartmentalized Atlantics that assume that empires function within self-sufficient spheres. spatial configuration geopolitical imagination world regionalization scheme critical...

... the importance of integrating South Atlantic perspectives to build a more truly Atlantic-wide optic. integration whiteness marital status social stratification Atlantic history ...

... labour back into Caribbean history as the first Atlantic and a parallel, contiguous, and continuous mode of work that strategically undoes the telos of the Atlantic proper. Working at the limits of Atlantic Studies and dominant Middle Passage narratives, this chapter continues to develop a method...

... to Atlantic history in particular, as well as to revolutionary history. As he notes, “James’s work did what any great work of history does: It created descendants and many of them challenged and went beyond their ancestor. It remains the best study written on the Haitian Revolution—indeed, one of the best...

... the alternative geography I call the transimperial Greater Caribbean, the subjects of this book envisioned plausible futures developed within this malleable, amorphously demarcated, transimperial geographic space. methodological nationalism plausible future Atlantic history lived geography geographic...

... The spiral form of the novel provides a clear narrative structure from which to delve into an infinitely relevant and repeating past. Quiet Dawn is a swirling epic that amounts to a fulsome confrontation with Black Atlantic history, in all its complexity and irresolution. Switching among...

... The history of enslaved women, particularly with regard to their experiences in the early modern Atlantic world, illuminates the connection between slavery and capitalism. The Western notion of rational concepts of value and the irrational framework of race developed simultaneously. A history...

... into Caribbean history as the first Atlantic and a parallel, contiguous, and continuous mode of work that strategically undoes the telos of the Atlantic proper. Working at the limits of Atlantic Studies and dominant Middle Passage narratives, this chapter continues to develop a method for a new Caribbean labour...

... race to garner moral capital. abolition capital punishment corporal punishment comparative Atlantic history human rights ...

... Jamaica in the history of modern mathematics that served colonial projects to regulate race, gender, and sexual relations on both sides of the Atlantic. The chapter contends that turning to geometry facilitates a different kind of approach to historical inquiry and uses geometry to think about...

.... In this section, respected historian of the Haitian Revolution Laurent Dubois, author of Avengers of the New World , offers his thoughts on The Black Jacobins and its place within the historiography of the Haitian Revolution. Dubois draws out how the work was a pioneering contribution to Atlantic history...