Reinterpreting the Haitian revolution and its cultural aftershocks / edited by Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw.

Other author Munro, Martin.
Other author Walcott-Hackshaw, Elizabeth.
Format Book
Publication InfoKingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2006.
Descriptionxvi, 184 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Open letter to the Haitians of 2004 / René Despestre -- Haiti Chimère : revolutionary universalism and its Caribbean context / J. Michael Dash -- Petrifying myths : lack and excess in Caribbean and Haitian histories / Martin Munro -- Lahens's revolution, or The words within / Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw -- Edwidge Danticat's The farming of bones : traumatic memories and the translucent narrator / Mireille Rosello -- Theories of "race" and the Haitian revolution / Georges Fouron -- Anténor Firmin : his legacy and continuing relevance / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban -- Re-creolizing swing : St Domingue refugees in the Govi of New Orleans / Keith Cartwright -- Haiti and the Haitian revolution in the political discourse of nineteenth-century Trinidad / Bridget Brereton -- The traveling revolution : situating Toussaint Louverture / Charles Forsdick -- What can Toussaint Louverture do for the Haitians of 2004? / René Depestre.
General noteBased on papers presented at a conference organized and held at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, June 2004 - Introduction.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN976640190X
ISBN9789766401900

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Joyner General Stacks F1923 .R457 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold