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Haiti's Paper War - Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954 (Hardcover)
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Haiti's Paper War - Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954 (Hardcover)
Series: America and the Long 19th Century
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2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine Turns to the
written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation
Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores
the critical internal challenge to Haiti's post-independence
sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic. What
transpired was a war of swords and of pens, waged in newspapers and
periodicals, in literature, broadsheets, and fliers. In her
analysis of Haitian writing that followed independence, Stieber
composes a new literary history of Haiti, that challenges our
interpretations of both freedom struggles and the postcolonial. By
examining internal dissent during the revolution, Stieber reveals
that the very concept of freedom was itself hotly contested in the
public sphere, and it was this inherent tension that became the
central battleground for the guerre de plume-the paper war-that
vied to shape public sentiment and the very idea of Haiti.
Stieber's reading of post-independence Haitian writing reveals key
insights into the nature of literature, its relation to freedom and
politics, and how fraught and politically loaded the concepts of
"literature" and "civilization" really are. The competing ideas of
liberte, writing, and civilization at work within postcolonial
Haiti have consequences for the way we think about Haiti's role-as
an idea and a discursive interlocutor-in the elaboration of black
radicalism and black Atlantic, anticolonial, and decolonial
thought. In so doing, Stieber reorders our previously homogeneous
view of Haiti, teasing out warring conceptions of the new nation
that continued to play out deep into the twentieth century.
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