Haiti's Paper War - Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954 (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	New York University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	America and the Long 19th Century
Release date:	September 2020
Authors:	Chelsea Stieber
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-1-4798-0215-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	1-4798-0215-8
Barcode:	9781479802159

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