...J. Michael Dash Small Axe Incorporated 2005 The Theater of the Haitian Revolution / The Haitian Revolution as Theater J. Michael Dash Th e theatre had come to a town without theatres, and as a theatre would have to be created, they took advantage of a heaven-sent...

... September 2005 Profondes et nombreuses: Haiti, History, Culture, 1804–2004 Guest edited by Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw and Martin Munro CONTENTS Foreword David Scott v Introduction: Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its...

...Rachel Douglas This article argues that there is a conspicuous lack of representations of the Haitian revolution in most contemporary Haitian writing. Rather than writing explicitly about the Revolution, many Haitian writers “perform” revolutions in their own work. Frankétienne's work provides us...

... a product of the New World as of Europe, Fischer reminds us that it is also “a heterogeneous, internally diverse, even contradictory phenomenon that constituted and revolutionized itself in the process of transculturation.”11 Yet, the project of “unsilenc- ing” Haitian revolutionary history...

... something significant about Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit stands or falls on his knowledge of the Haitian Revolution; and the second concerns her curious reading of C.L.R. James' T he Black Jacobins , as mainly “information,” rather than itself an attempt to theorize the Haitian Revolution as universal...

... was left somewhat unresolved in her seminal essay “Hegel and Haiti,” turns the Haitian Revolution and its half suppressed echo in Hegel's master-slave dialectic into an emblematic event. Universal ideas of liberty and liberation can only be glimpsed in singular moments of rupture, systemic break-down...

... to the undesirables of Europe based on the principles of the 1804 Haitian Revolution. Since the birth of the Haitian nation, its purported failure has justified all sorts of essentializing discourses that relegate it to the margins of the developed world. It has been characterized as lacking governance...

... Revolution as a question of “universal history.” My aim here has not been to set down exhaustively (even nearly so) the whole dramatic labor of C. L. R. James's exercise in writing the Haitian Revolution as universal history in The Black Jacobins . What I want us to principally see in my...

...Laurent Dubois This essay discusses the ways in which Madison Smartt Bell's novel The Stone That the Builder Refused represents the history of the Haitian Revolution, and particularly the figure of Toussaint Louverture. It argues that the novel engages usefully with the problem of how we can...

...Madison Smartt Bell This essay responds to four critics who discuss Bell's trilogy of novels about the Haitian Revolution— All Souls' Rising, Master of the Crossroads, The Stone That the Builder Refused. Particular attention is paid to the idea of a French royalist plot behind the slave...

... imaginary, much as the Haitian Revolution was for the nineteenth. The occupation is usually considered only in relation to its impacts in Haiti and the United States, but Haiti’s symbolic significance meant that its occupation shaped the perspectives of Caribbean people throughout the region. Major thinkers...

... and genres of Black protest. In so doing, it refocuses vindicationism on these rhetorical evidentiary practices, rather than on the mythos of romance and romantic overcoming that has categorized vindicationist narratives of the Haitian Revolution. Tensions continued to mount between colonial...

...Charles Forsdick Central to Madison Smartt Bell's trilogy of novels on the Haitian Revolution is the character of Toussaint Louverture. The article considers how Bell's Toussaint fits into two centuries of representations of the revolutionary leader, exploring in particular the ways in which his...

...Martin Munro This essay reads Madison Smartt Bell's Haitian trilogy in the context of contemporary Haitian literature, and considers why Haitian writers have tended not to evoke the revolution in their work, and why it is an American author has produced the most ambitious work of Haitian historical...

... a new era for writ- ing in French from nonmetropolitan regions. It moreover suggests that this moment marks a “Copernican revolution” in the literary history of France and the French-speaking world.1 But consider the case of Haitian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

... and suggesting elements of a future research agenda. Two related quotations serve as an epigraph to this article, both of them reflecting the debt to two key Caribbean historians of many scholars and readers with interests in the Haitian Revolution, as well as in its wider impact and implications...

... exchanges of information, but exchanges of people.” 1 This commentary—and the large number of French ships present—draws attention to the nature of life in Havana during a particularly active period of the thirteen-year Haitian Revolution. By 1802 this Cuban city (and other Cuban locales) had seen...

... Pacheco, Walterio Carbonell, Fernando Coronil, and others. I began the research not long after Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s powerful 1995 denunciation of the silencing of the Haitian Revolution. 2 I finished well into a boom in Haitian revolutionary studies that has transformed understandings...

... history of the Haitian Revolution written and published in Haitian Creole (55–56). For Trouillot, this longitudinal exploration of the past of Haiti’s revolutionary history in the language of the Revolution itself was necessary for understanding the dictatorial politics of the Duvalier regime, the very...

... expertise alongside approaches developed on garden plots on the plantations. But perhaps most important, it was centered on an intensive focus on the creation and preservation of forms of autonomy, rooted in and deeply connected to the aspirations developed through the Haitian Revolution itself, in which...