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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 417–440.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Kieran M. Murphy Abstract Contemporary actors and, later, historians and critics have long compared the Haitian Revolution to a tragic play. But the model of tragedy they invoke has changed over time. Today the best-known example comes from The Black Jacobins (1963), in which C. L. R. James...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 433–451.
Published: 01 September 2012
... importation of the template of enlightenment progress into the Haitian revolution and his attempt to cast the slaves as precursors of the “modern proletariat” assumed the potential to empower and to mislead. Writing as an engaged intellectual...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 461–480.
Published: 01 December 2008
... and bondage originate?’ ask the Hegel experts.”12 “Where, indeed?” she remarks wryly (HH, 843), before claiming that the central metaphor of G. W. F. Hegel’s work stemmed from his perusal of the political journal Minerva’s detailed account of the Haitian revolution. (In this admittedly oversimplified...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 175–191.
Published: 01 June 2016
... ( The Kingdom of This World ). It is a brilliant novel about how the Haitian Revolution served up France’s “Rights of Man” on a platter of African animism. Carpentier practically pities the European surrealists for trying so hard to imagine a world beyond reason. But Caribbeans are multidimensional without...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 87–110.
Published: 01 March 2007
... in the Rue EMorgue” has recently inspired at least two rewritings in France: René Reouven’s La vérité sur la rue Morgue, which ties together Poe’s three Paris mysteries into a common source crime, and Robert Deleuse’s La véritable affaire de la rue Morgue, which connects Poe’s tale to the Haitian...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (2): 229–232.
Published: 01 June 1953
... in Zuid-Nederland Sedert 1830. Vierde Herziene en Vermeerderde Druk. Uitgeversmij . N.V. Standaard-Boekhandel, 1951. Pp. 163. ingen. 55 fr. ; geb. 75 fr. Hall, Robert A., Jr. Haitian Creole : Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary. With the collaboration of Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, H. Ormonde...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (2): 269–292.
Published: 01 June 2004
... personal connections to Gordon (who has been dead more than twenty years): “They [Haitians] have a constitution, of course, with a legislature—two houses of a legisla- ture—universal suffrage, &c., but it does not save them from revolutions, which [have] recurred every two or three years till the time...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (4): 425–452.
Published: 01 December 2001
... played an important role in that it established a referential validity for the new republic. The idea of the Haitian landscape as the territory of the marvelous and the magical has its roots in early writing, where nature is endowed with a capacity to ground an authentic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (4): 495–498.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of a larger world community composed of many nations of people and no longer give credence to the geopolitical borders that have divided us, Chicano from Mexicano, Filipino-American from Pacific Islander, African-American from Haitian. . . . Chicanos call it “Raza be it Quichua [sic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (4): 499–501.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of a larger world community composed of many nations of people and no longer give credence to the geopolitical borders that have divided us, Chicano from Mexicano, Filipino-American from Pacific Islander, African-American from Haitian. . . . Chicanos call it “Raza be it Quichua [sic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (4): 501–505.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of a larger world community composed of many nations of people and no longer give credence to the geopolitical borders that have divided us, Chicano from Mexicano, Filipino-American from Pacific Islander, African-American from Haitian. . . . Chicanos call it “Raza be it Quichua [sic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (4): 505–508.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of a larger world community composed of many nations of people and no longer give credence to the geopolitical borders that have divided us, Chicano from Mexicano, Filipino-American from Pacific Islander, African-American from Haitian. . . . Chicanos call it “Raza be it Quichua [sic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (4): 508–513.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of a larger world community composed of many nations of people and no longer give credence to the geopolitical borders that have divided us, Chicano from Mexicano, Filipino-American from Pacific Islander, African-American from Haitian. . . . Chicanos call it “Raza be it Quichua [sic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (4): 513–518.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of a larger world community composed of many nations of people and no longer give credence to the geopolitical borders that have divided us, Chicano from Mexicano, Filipino-American from Pacific Islander, African-American from Haitian. . . . Chicanos call it “Raza be it Quichua [sic...