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Modernity Disavowed - Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (Hardcover, New)
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Modernity Disavowed - Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (Hardcover, New)
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Modernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural,
political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution
(1791-1804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this
seminal event have been suppressed and ignored in historical and
cultural records over the past two hundred years, Sibylle Fischer
contends that revolutionary antislavery and its subsequent
disavowal are central to the formation and understanding of Western
modernity. She develops a powerful argument that the denial of
revolutionary antislavery eventually became a crucial ingredient in
a range of hegemonic thought, including Creole nationalism in the
Caribbean and G. W. F. Hegel's master-slave dialectic.Fischer draws
on history, literary scholarship, political theory, philosophy, and
psychoanalytic theory to examine a range of material, including
Haitian political and legal documents and nineteenth-century Cuban
and Dominican literature and art. She demonstrates that at a time
when racial taxonomies were beginning to mutate into scientific
racism and racist biology, the Haitian revolutionaries recognized
the question of race as political. Yet, as the cultural records of
neighboring Cuba and the Dominican Republic show, the story of the
Haitian Revolution has been told as one outside politics and beyond
human language, as a tale of barbarism and unspeakable violence.
From the time of the revolution onward, the story has been confined
to the margins of history: to rumors, oral histories, and
confidential letters. Fischer maintains that without accounting for
revolutionary antislavery and its subsequent disavowal, Western
modernity-including its hierarchy of values, depoliticization of
social goals having to do with racial differences, and privileging
of claims of national sovereignty-cannot be fully understood.
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