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Beyond the Slave Narrative - Politics, Sex, and Manuscripts in the Haitian Revolution (Paperback)
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Beyond the Slave Narrative - Politics, Sex, and Manuscripts in the Haitian Revolution (Paperback)
Series: Liverpool Studies in International Slavery, 4
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The Haitian Revolution has generated responses from commentators in
fields ranging from philosophy to historiography to
twentieth-century literary and artistic studies. But what about the
written work produced at the time, by Haitians? This book is the
first to present an account of a specifically Haitian literary
tradition in the Revolutionary era. Beyond the Slave Narrative
shows the emergence of two strands of textual innovation, both
evolving from the new revolutionary consciousness: the remarkable
political texts produced by Haitian revolutionary leaders Toussaint
Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and popular Creole poetry
from anonymous courtesans in Saint-Domingue's libertine culture.
These textual forms, though they differ from each other, both
demonstrate the increasing cultural autonomy and literary voice of
non-white populations in the colony at the time of revolution.
Unschooled generals and courtesans, long presented as voiceless,
are at last revealed to be legitimate speakers and authors. These
Haitian French and Creole texts have been neglected as a foundation
of Afro-diasporic literature by former slaves in the Atlantic world
for two reasons: because they do not fit the generic criteria of
the slave narrative (which is rooted in the autobiographical
experience of enslavement); and because they are mediated texts,
relayed to the print-cultural Atlantic domain not by the speakers
themselves, but by secretaries or refugee colonists. These texts
challenge how we think about authorial voice, writing, print
culture, and cultural autonomy in the context of the formerly
enslaved, and demand that we reassess our historical understanding
of the Haitian Independence and its relationship to an
international world of contemporary readers.
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