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... history. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 BOOK DISCUSSION: Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), 160 pages; ISBN: 978-0822959786 (paper). Antinomies of Slavery, Enlightenment, and Universal History David Scott Etudier...

...Fayçal Falaky This essay engages the broad question of the relation between the French Enlightenment and colonial racial slavery by exploring the literature of planters and slavetraders in the French Caribbean and showing how the ideals of French Enlightenment philosophy were not always framed...

... that violence against enslaved women was central to Thistlewood’s Enlightenment thought and plantation management, in addition to considering the political stakes of choosing a language to describe his interactions with enslaved women. It proposes that antiracist feminist theory and art have the potential...

... of its significance, thus broadening and at times challenging Dessalines’s narrative of revenge.3 C. L. R. James laid the groundwork for this revision in situating the Haitian Revolution within the context of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution when claims about the universality...

... of the landowner would be two hundred milliers; yours would be one hundred milliers.12 The slaves’ insight, one that radicalized the entire Eighteenth-century logic of “Enlighten- ment,” was, first, to have grasped immediately the universal truth that intellectual capacity is one and universal (though...

... presents it as “the most barbaric product of the Enlightenment” (201). Relying heavily on Louis Sala-Molins's influential portrayal of the code as “the worst refinement in wickedness, the most glacial technicality in the commerce of human flesh and in genocide,” 3 Dayan asserts that the basis...

..., since he was acutely aware that between 1791 and 1804 a revolutionary ideal had entered the New World and that the Caribbean had become one of those explosive borders of enlightened modernity. As James vividly reminds us in Black Jacobins, the Haitian Revolution would take the French Revolution...

... in which they fl ourished could not similarly discern the patriarchal structures of those same societies. Because of this epistemic blind spot, their otherwise enlightened attitudes toward women were infected by latent contradictions that resulted in the con- WWigmooreigmoore...

... is contingent on specific individual and collective action, suggesting that the future could still perhaps be otherwise. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 Rita Indiana time travel moral luck posthuman ethics enlightened catastrophism In Our Posthuman Future , Francis Fukuyama ponders...

... eloquently argued for the significance of “religion and [the Vodou] pantheon not just as subject matter but as a way of knowing that counters Enlightenment rationality.” 9 Through this critical framework, I hope to decenter the masculinist iconography of the Haitian Revolution and political historiography...

... medical practices as peripherally related to the solidification of rightful medical histories. 7 In this, they have been faithful to their sources. African and black Caribbean health practices appear in early modern medical accounts as “primitive,” “superstitious” rituals, and the foils to “enlightened...

... American studies at Yale University. Her research relates slavery’s archives to literature and arts of the African diaspora, with a focus on ecology, sexuality, and kinship. Her essay “Mortal Coils and Hair-Raising Revolutions: Styling ‘Race’ in the Age of Enlightenment” will appear in A Cultural History...

... not afford not to recognize and affirm themselves in their difference in order to survive spiritually and materially, I had no business riding a high horse on matters of racial “enlightenment” visvis the “benighted” young woman on the show. Most important, the history that has instructed me...

...,” to be encompassed by either European or American Enlightenments. For example, see Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009); Sibylle Fischer, Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cul- tures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution...

...” is that of a creole universality, born of the anticolonial history of the Americas and distinctly at odds with the inherited universality of the hegemonic European Enlightenment. Europe's Enlightenment universality embodied the violent conquest of the Americas, and its subordination to the rapacious logic...

... interests of that imagined consumer of words. This assessor of texts will normally predicate condemnation or praise of given aspects of the work under perusal on his or her authority as an enlightened interpreter of the reader’s desire or need. In that sense, this popular critic admittedly...

... Press, 2008). 5 See Dale Tomich, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990); Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (New York: Viking, 1985); Arthur L. Stinchcombe, Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment...

... ) of Enlightenment humanism and their subversive articulation of alternative modes of imagining humanity as a matter of knowledge and being, thinking and personhood. I am not sure that I am always in complete agreement with Bogues’s formulations or claims, but there is something profoundly admirable in the direction...

.... Similarly, the turn to marronage and Maroons encircled by freedom’s violence is not an adequate frame for thinking post-Enlightenment black desires for freedom. Flight is not freedom, and neither is subterfuge. Marronage is a temporal self-emancipation that must collude with its other—captivity. Making...

... took as its standpoint the critique of grand narratives of the Enlightenment. But the savage slot predates the Enlightenment by several centuries. An early, but by no means the first, example of the geographies of imagination and management in action is the debate between Bartolomé de Las Casas...