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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 58–70.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Shelby Johnson Abstract Juliet Granville, the protagonist of Frances Burney’s novel The Wanderer (1814), enters the novel fleeing the French Revolution and disguised in blackface. This article argues that Juliet’s act of racial counterfeiting implicitly gestures toward the Haitian Revolution...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 100–101.
Published: 01 April 2023
... about the American and Haitian revolutions through race overturns some of “the mythologies . . . [that] represent revolutionaries as middling-class white men” when they often included the poor and the jobless from multiracial backgrounds. Similarly, thinking about the January 6 insurrection through race...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 139–141.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... Securitization became necessary in such a globe, because no site could be le ft alone or, more im portantly, remain autonomous from the reach of empire. First, an 1802 Edinburgh Review o f Crisis o f the Sugar Colonies, a book treating w hat we today call the Haitian Revolution, warned against the "contagion...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 102–105.
Published: 01 April 2023
... contemporary politics? In particular, how might we situate major upheavals like the American Revolution, Haitian Revolution, and US Civil War—when violent insurrection proved central to dismantling and defending figurative and literal forms of slavery—alongside latter-day instances of antidemocratic, white...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (1): 103–110.
Published: 01 March 2007
... of Haiti In 1917 or 1918 just a couple o f years Into the lengthy U.S. occupation of Haiti5 a young white boy from Florida w rote a play called Haitifi The play, set in 1802, tells the story of the final turning point in the twelve-year-long Haitian revolution Napoleon has sent more troops to reclaim...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 106–109.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of insurrection in an impending Jamaican uprising ignited by the Haitian Revolution. Wedderburn, in Johnson’s analysis, is compelled both by present struggles against poverty and the prophetic conviction that liberation is assured, if in the future, beyond his own participation and with transnational reach...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 1–6.
Published: 01 October 2019
... urbanized society.” Indeed, Maria’s memoir reflects on the process by which a woman puts the memory of a transformative aesthetic experience in the service of her daughter’s education. Approaching the absent presences of the Haitian Revolution in another major Romantic-era novel, The Wanderer (1814...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 222–224.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy Copyright © 2021 Regents of the University of Colorado 2021 In his classic text, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History , Michel-Rolph Trouillot asked of the Haitian Revolution: “How does one write a history of the impossible?” 1 Planters...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 110–113.
Published: 01 April 2023
... incorporating “finitude as constitutive of revolution” so that events like the Haitian Revolution are reframed as unfinished projects. 7 The mythologies we’ve inherited about late eighteenth-century revolutions— Hamilton included—represent revolutionaries as middling-class white men (small business owners...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 7–20.
Published: 01 April 2018
... reading Marguerite and Mechthild along with Eckhart in the medieval period, or in the modern, recognizing the role of, say, the Haitian Revolution alongside that of the US and French revolutions and asking why they led to such different results. Our histories have to become more capacious. AH : I...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 116–128.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., The Big Ditch , supported by a Guggenheim grant and an advance from Liveright. He promised to do for the canal what C. L. R. James would do for the Haitian Revolution. In Paris, Walrond doled out praise on Cendrars, noting his particular esteem for Le Panama . Liveright advertised The Big Ditch...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 1–20.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of nobility or landed gentry, who could afford to have their garments archived and their portraits painted for posterity. No visual artist critiques the phenomenon of racial erasure in fashion history more effectively than the Haitian-born and Brooklyn-raised art photographer Fabiola Jean-Louis, who uses...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 58–72.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., for example, how Ray, the Haitian intellectual and autobiographical stand-in from Home to Harlem and Banjo , is alienated—is marked as queer —from the Black and working-class communities of those novels precisely because of his refinement and difference. 8 Finally, Big Blonde’s name slides from...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 75–96.
Published: 01 September 2014
... divisions of the Caribbean islands: French, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Venezuelan Spanish, British, and then the Haitian and "a dju nct islands," as he put it. So detailed was he th a t he included a description o f the aggregate area in square m iles "o f sm aller Islands, belonging to the Little A ntilles...