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Long neglected in mainstream history books, the Haitian Revolution
(1791-1804) is now being claimed across a range of academic
disciplines as an event of world-historical importance. The former
slaves' victory over their French masters and the creation of the
independent nation of Haiti in 1804 is being newly heralded not
only as a seminal moment in the transnational formation of the
'black Atlantic' but as the most far-reaching manifestation of
'Radical Enlightenment'. The best known Haitian writer to emerge in
the years after the revolution is Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), who
authored over ten books and pamphlets between 1814 and his murder
in 1820. His first and most incendiary work, Le systeme colonial
devoile (1814), provides a moving invocation of the horrors of
slavery in pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue. Its trailblazing
critique of colonialism anticipates by over a hundred years the
anticolonial politics (and poetics) of Cesaire, Fanon, and Sartre.
Translated here for the first time, Vastey's forceful unveiling of
the colonial system will be compulsory reading for scholars across
the humanities.
Long neglected in mainstream history books, the Haitian Revolution
(1791-1804) is now being claimed across a range of academic
disciplines as an event of world-historical importance. The former
slaves' victory over their French masters and the creation of the
independent nation of Haiti in 1804 is being newly heralded not
only as a seminal moment in the transnational formation of the
'black Atlantic' but as the most far-reaching manifestation of
'Radical Enlightenment'. The best known Haitian writer to emerge in
the years after the revolution is Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), who
authored over ten books and pamphlets between 1814 and his murder
in 1820. His first and most incendiary work, Le systeme colonial
devoile (1814), provides a moving invocation of the horrors of
slavery in pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue. Its trailblazing
critique of colonialism anticipates by over a hundred years the
anticolonial politics (and poetics) of Cesaire, Fanon, and Sartre.
Translated here for the first time, Vastey's forceful unveiling of
the colonial system will be compulsory reading for scholars across
the humanities.
Though Edmund Burke is usually identified as the first to
articulate the principles of a modern conservative political
tradition, he was actually preceded by a Scotsman who is better
known for espousing a brilliant concept of scepticism. David Hume
was undoubtedly the eighteenth-century British writer whose works
were most widely known and acclaimed on the Continent during the
later Enlightenment period. Hume's impact [in France] was of
undeniable importance, greater even for a time than the related
influence of Burke, although it represents a contribution to French
counter-revolutionary thought which, unlike that of Burke, has been
almost totally ignored by historians to this day.
Though usually Edmund Burke is identified as the first to
articulate the principles of a modern conservative political
tradition, arguably he was preceded by a Scotsman who is better
known for espousing a brilliant concept of skepticism. As Laurence
Bongie notes, "David Hume was undoubtedly the eighteenth-century
British writer whose works were most widely known and acclaimed on
the Continent during the later Enlightenment period. Hume's impact
in France] was of undeniable importance, greater even for a time
than the related influence of Burke, although it represents a
contribution to French counter-revolutionary thought which, unlike
that of Burke, has been almost totally ignored by historians to
this day." The bulk of Bongie's work consists of the writings of
French readers of Hume who were confronted, first, by the ideology
of human perfection and, finally, by the actual terrors of the
French Revolution. Offered in French in the original edition of
"David Hume" published by Oxford University Press in 1965, these
vitally important writings have been translated by the author into
English for the Liberty Fund second edition. In his foreword,
Donald Livingston observes that "If conservatism is taken to be an
intellectual critique of the first attempt at modern total
revolution, then the first such event was not the French but the
Puritan revolution, and the first systematic critique of this sort
of act was given by Hume."Laurence L. Bongie is Professor Emeritus
of French at the University of British Columbia.Donald Livingston
is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.
In this timely contribution to debates about the future of
postcolonial theory groundbreaking scholar Chris Bongie explores
the troubled relationship between postcolonial theory and
'politics', both in the sense of a radical, revolutionary politics
associated with anti-colonial struggle, and the almost inevitable
implication of literary writers in institutional discourses of
power. The book builds directly on Bongie's Islands and Exiles
(Stanford UP, 1998), which was described by the eminent
Caribbeanist Peter Hulme as a book that "may well be the greatest
single contribution yet to expanding the field of postcolonial
studies."
Bongie explores the commemoration and commodification of the
post/colonial using early nineteenth-century Caribbean texts
alongside contemporary works. Taking Haiti as a key example he
writes lucidly of the processes by which Haiti's world-historical
revolution has been commemorated both in the colonial era and in
our own postcolonial age--an age in which it is increasingly
difficult to separate the reality of memories of anti-colonial
resistance from the processes of commodification through which
alone those memories can now be thought.
Never less than stimulating and frequently controversial, Friends
and Enemies is likely to provoke new debates among scholars of
postcolonial theory, Caribbean studies, francophone literature and
culture, and nineteenth century French studies.
While access to higher education has increased globally, student
retention has become a major challenge. This book analyses various
aspects of the learning pathways of black students from a range of
disciplinary backgrounds at a relatively elite, English-medium,
historically white South African university. The students are part
of a generation of young black people who have grown up in the new
South Africa and are gaining access to higher education in
unprecedented numbers. Based on two longitudinal case studies,
Negotiating Learning and Identity in Higher Education makes a
contribution to the debates about how to facilitate access and
graduation of working-class students. The longitudinal perspective
enabled the students participating in the research to reflect on
their transition to university and the stumbling blocks they
encountered in their senior years. The contributors show that the
school-to-university transition is not linear or universal.
Students had to negotiate multiple transitions at various times and
both resist and absorb institutional, disciplinary and home
discourses. The book describes and analyses the students'
ambivalence as they straddle often conflicting discourses within
their disciplines; within the institution; between home and the
institution, and as they occupy multiple subject positions that are
related to the boundaries of place and time. Each chapter also
describes the ways in which the institution supports and/or hinders
students' progress, explores the implications of its findings for
models of support and addresses the issue of what constitutes
meaningful access to institutional and disciplinary discourses.
This research study is an attempt to explore the ways in which
children from different family backgrounds reflected on images of
God or who they perceived God to be. The author draws from
psychological tradition of 'object relations' theory and interface
with theology and spirituality formation to engage with possible
challenges that confronts children growing up without parents
because of abandonment which has become a harsh reality faced by a
number of children today. These reflections provide a challenge for
new theologies embodied through children's experiences which
contributes towards the formation of contextual and relevant
curriculums on religious education.
On January 1, 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared the
independence of Haiti, thus bringing to an end the only successful
slave revolution in history and transforming the colony of
Saint-Domingue into the second independent state in the Western
Hemisphere. The historical significance of the Haitian Revolution
has been addressed by numerous scholars, but the importance of the
Revolution as a cultural and political phenomenon has only begun to
be explored. Although the path-breaking work of Michel-Rolph
Trouillot and Sibylle Fischer has illustrated the profound silences
surrounding the Haitian Revolution in Western historiography and in
Caribbean cultural production in the aftermath of the Revolution,
contributors to this volume argue that, while suppressed and
disavowed in some quarters, the Haitian Revolution nonetheless had
an enduring cultural and political impact, particularly on peoples
and communities that have been marginalized in the historical
record and absent from the discourses of Western
historiography.
Tree of Liberty interrogates the literary, historical, and
political discourses that the Revolution produced and inspired
across time and space and across national and linguistic
boundaries. In so doing, it seeks to initiate a far-reaching
discussion of the Revolution as a cultural and political phenomenon
that shaped ideas about the Enlightenment, freedom,
postcolonialism, and race in the modern Atlantic world.
Contributors: A. James Arnold, University of Virginia * Chris
Bongie, Queen's University * Paul Breslin, Northwestern University
* Ada Ferrer, New York University * Doris L. Garraway, Northwestern
University * E. Anthony Hurley, SUNY Stony Brook * Deborah Jenson,
University of Wisconsin, Madison * Jean Jonassaint, Syracuse
University * Valerie Kaussen, University of Missouri * Ifeoma C.K.
Nwankwo, Vanderbilt University
The writings of the Marquis de Sade have recently attained
notoriety in the canon of world literature. Now Sade himself is
often celebrated as a heroic apostle of individual rights and a
giant of philosophical thought. In this detailed investigative
work, Laurence Bongie tests these claims and finds them unfounded
and undeserved.
"A valuable correction to the perception of Sade as a profound
thinker, a great writer, and a martyr to liberty. Drawing on
original archival work, Bongie tries to illuminate Sade's childhood
and his relationship with his parents. . . . Fluent and
well-informed."--"Library Journal"
"Mr. Bongie . . . has written an investigation focusing on one
aspect of Sade's character and development, his heretofore
neglected relationship with his aristocratic mother. . . . A
profitable selection."--Richard Bernstein, "New York Times"
"A welcome corrective. Bongie's book . . . aims to deflate the
exalted claims made about the marquis by demonstrating that he was
a monstrous character."--Scott Stossel, "Boston Phoenix Literary
Supplement"
While access to higher education has increased globally, student
retention has become a major challenge. This book analyses various
aspects of the learning pathways of black students from a range of
disciplinary backgrounds at a relatively elite, English-medium,
historically white South African university. The students are part
of a generation of young black people who have grown up in the new
South Africa and are gaining access to higher education in
unprecedented numbers. Based on two longitudinal case studies,
Negotiating Learning and Identity in Higher Education makes a
contribution to the debates about how to facilitate access and
graduation of working-class students. The longitudinal perspective
enabled the students participating in the research to reflect on
their transition to university and the stumbling blocks they
encountered in their senior years. The contributors show that the
school-to-university transition is not linear or universal.
Students had to negotiate multiple transitions at various times and
both resist and absorb institutional, disciplinary and home
discourses. The book describes and analyses the students'
ambivalence as they straddle often conflicting discourses within
their disciplines; within the institution; between home and the
institution, and as they occupy multiple subject positions that are
related to the boundaries of place and time. Each chapter also
describes the ways in which the institution supports and/or hinders
students' progress, explores the implications of its findings for
models of support and addresses the issue of what constitutes
meaningful access to institutional and disciplinary discourses.
Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal (1826) is one of the most important works
of nineteenth-century colonial fiction, and quite possibly the most
sustained novelistic treatment of the Haitian Revolution by a major
European author. This Broadview edition makes Hugo's novel
available in a completely new English translation, the first in
over one hundred years. Set in 1791, during the first months of a
slave revolt that would eventually lead to the creation of the
black republic of Haiti in 1804, Bug-Jargal is a stirring tale of
interracial friendship and rivalry, a provocative account of the
ties that bind a young Frenchman to one of the rebel leaders and
the tragic misunderstandings that threaten to sever those ties
completely. This Broadview edition contains a critical introduction
and a broad selection of appendices, including Hugo's
never-before-translated 1820 short story "Bug-Jargal," contemporary
reviews of the novel, documents pertaining to the young Hugo's
poetics and politics, and selections from his source materials
about the Haitian Revolution.
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