Search Results for Haitian Revolution

...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...

...John Patrick Walsh © 2011 by Small Axe, Inc. 2011 This article argues that Césaire’s essay, Toussaint Louverture: La Révolution française et le problème colonial brings the Haitian Revolution into contact with the departmentalization of the French Caribbean. Situated between the epic Cahier...

...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...

...Nathalie Batraville In Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022), Régine Jean-Charles evokes revolutionary figures such as Sanité Bélair and Victoria Montou, who fought in the Haitian Revolution. She also revisits the legacy of Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière, who was said...

...Jocelyn Sutton Franklin Focusing on the Haitian author Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s novel Dance on the Volcano (1957), this essay examines representations of an anxious White minority on the eve of the Haitian Revolution. It argues that Vieux-Chauvet deploys theatrical conventions to suggest that White...

... to the undesirables of Europe based on the principles of the 1804 Haitian Revolution. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 international relations historiography universalism exceptionalism idea-shift As far as I am concerned, at 4:53:10 p.m. last year, when the earth cracked open, Haiti once again was being...

... of Haiti as a theory-problem, I mean to afford myself some skeptical room in which to come at the recent provocative characterization of the Haitian Revolution in terms of some idea of “universality” or “universal history” or the politics of “universal human rights.” It is a characterization that appears...

...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...

... with cultural hierarchies, it is remarkable that the most literate, flexible, and skilled cultural translator of the play is not a storied hero of the Haitian Revolution; rather, it is a servant woman overlooked by traditional histories. Through his portrayal of Celestine, James demands modes of historical...

...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...

... 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. The elements of the mémoire in revolutionary Saint-Domingue...

... 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...

...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...