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The Theater of the Haitian Revolution the Haitian Revolution as Theater
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 16–23.
Published: 01 September 2005
...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...
View articletitled, The Theater of the <span class="search-highlight">Haitian</span> <span class="search-highlight">Revolution</span> the <span class="search-highlight">Haitian</span> <span class="search-highlight">Revolution</span> as Theater
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): viii–xiii.
Published: 01 September 2005
... 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...
View articletitled, Introduction: Reinterpreting the <span class="search-highlight">Haitian</span> <span class="search-highlight">Revolution</span> and Its Cultural Aftershocks
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Césaire Reads Toussaint Louverture: The Haitian Revolution and the Problem of Departmentalization
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (1 (34)): 110–124.
Published: 01 March 2011
...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...
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Haitian Revolutions in Literature: The Case of Linguistic and Visual Inventiveness in Frankétienne
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 58–70.
Published: 01 October 2008
...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...
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Empire of Freedom, Kingdom of Civilization: Henry Christophe, the Baron de Vastey, and the Paradoxes of Universalism in Postrevolutionary Haiti
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2012
... 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...
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Antinomies of Slavery, Enlightenment, and Universal History
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 152–162.
Published: 01 November 2010
... 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...
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History and Catastrophe
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 163–172.
Published: 01 November 2010
... 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...
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The Fire This Time
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 206–214.
Published: 01 November 2024
...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...
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Deceptive Benevolence: Witnessing Whiteness in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 1–14.
Published: 01 November 2023
...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...
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Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and “Failed” Nations: Haiti and Jewish Refugees in the 1930s
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 1–15.
Published: 01 July 2021
... 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...
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The Theory of Haiti: The Black Jacobins and the Poetics of Universal History
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 35–51.
Published: 01 November 2014
... 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...
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Capturing Louverture
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 177–183.
Published: 01 June 2007
...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...
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Sa Nou Pa We Yo (The Invisible Ones): A Reply to Four Readers
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 209–216.
Published: 01 June 2007
...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...
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“A New Rhythm Starts Immediately”: Women’s Spiritual Literacy in The Black Jacobins
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 17–33.
Published: 01 July 2024
... 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...
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Madison Smartt Bell's Toussaint at the Crossroads: The Haitian Revolutionary between History and Fiction
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 194–208.
Published: 01 June 2007
...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...
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Mémoire and Vindicationism in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 30–54.
Published: 01 March 2022
... 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...
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Regionalism, Imperialism, and Sovereignty: West Indies Federation and the Occupation of Haiti
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 61–68.
Published: 01 March 2020
... 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...
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Haitian Novels and Novels of Haiti: History, Haitian Writing, and Madison Smartt Bell's Trilogy
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 163–176.
Published: 01 June 2007
...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...
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Haiti's Worldly Literature
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 69–77.
Published: 01 November 2010
... 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...
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Interpreting 2004: Politics, Memory, Scholarship
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 1–13.
Published: 01 October 2008
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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...
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