Format:
1 Online-Ressource (706 p)
ISBN:
9781781388808
Series Statement:
Liverpool Studies in International Slavery LUP
Content:
A literary history of the Haitian Revolution that explores how scientific ideas about 'race' affected 19th-century understandings of the Haitian Revolution and, conversely, how understandings of the Haitian Revolution affected 19th-century scientific ideas about race
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The "Mulatto/a" Vengeance of 'Haitian Exceptionalism' -- Part One -- "Monstrous Hybridity" in Colonial and Revolutionary Writing from Saint-Domingue -- Baron de Vastey, Colonial Discourse, and the Global "Scientific" Sphere -- Victor Hugo and the Rhetorical Possibilities of "Monstrous Hybridity" in Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary Fiction -- Part Two -- Moreau de Saint-Méry's Daughter and the Anti-Slavery Muse of La Mulâtre comme il y a beaucoup de blanches (1803)
Content:
'Born to Command': Leonora Sansay and the Paradoxes of Female Benevolence as Resistance in Zelica -- the Creole -- 'Theresa' to the Rescue! African American Women's Resistance and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution -- Part Three -- "Black" Son, "White" Father: The Tragic "Mulatto/a" and the Haitian Revolution in Victor Séjour's 'Le Mulâtre' -- Between the Family and the Nation: Lamartine, Toussaint Louverture, and the "Interracial" Family Romance of the Haitian Revolution -- A 'Quarrel between Two Brothers': Eméric Bergeaud's Ideal History of the Haitian Revolution -- Part Four
Content:
The Color of History: The Transatlantic Abolitionist Movement and the 'Never-to-be-Forgiven Course of the Mulattoes' -- Victor Schoelcher, 'L'imagination Jaune,' and the Francophone Genealogy of the 'Mulatto Legend of History' -- 'Let us be Humane after the Victory': Pierre Faubert's 'New Humanism' -- CODA: Today's 'Haitian Exceptionalism' -- Bibliography -- Index
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Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781781388808
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781781381847
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Daut, Marlene L Tropics of Haiti : Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 Oxford : Liverpool University Press,c2015
Language:
English
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