Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)

Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey's extensive writings as a form of what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse devoted to attacking the enlightenment foundations of colonialism. Daut argues that Vastey, the most important secretary of Haiti's King Henry Christophe, was a pioneer in a tradition of deconstructing colonial racism and colonial slavery that is much more closely associated with twentieth-century writers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Aime Cesaire. By expertly forging exciting new historical and theoretical connections among Vastey and these later twentieth-century writers, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black Atlantic authors, such as Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs, Daut proves that any understanding of the genesis of Afro-diasporic thought must include Haiti's Baron de Vastey.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The New Urban Atlantic
Release date:	March 2019
First published:	2017
Authors:	Marlene L. Daut
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	244
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-69376-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism
LSN:	1-349-69376-6
Barcode:	9781349693764

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