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Tropics of Haiti - Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (Paperback)
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Tropics of Haiti - Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (Paperback)
Series: Liverpool Studies in International Slavery, 8
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The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was an event of monumental
world-historical significance, and here, in the first systematic
literary history of those events, Haiti's war of independence is
examined through the eyes of its actual and imagined participants,
observers, survivors, and cultural descendants. The 'transatlantic
print culture' under discussion in this literary history reveals
that enlightenment racial 'science' was the primary vehicle through
which the Haitian Revolution was interpreted by nineteenth-century
Haitians, Europeans, and U.S. Americans alike. Through its author's
contention that the Haitian revolutionary wars were incessantly
racialized by four constantly recurring tropes-the 'monstrous
hybrid', the 'tropical temptress', the 'tragic mulatto/a', and the
'colored historian'-Tropics of Haiti shows the ways in which the
nineteenth-century tendency to understand Haiti's revolution in
primarily racial terms has affected present day demonizations of
Haiti and Haitians. In the end, this new archive of Haitian
revolutionary writing, much of which has until now remained unknown
to the contemporary reading public, invites us to examine how
nineteenth-century attempts to paint Haitian independence as the
result of a racial revolution coincide with present-day desires to
render insignificant and 'unthinkable' the second independent
republic of the New World.
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