Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution And Its Cultural Aftershocks - Couverture souple

Munro, Martin; Walcott-Hackshaw, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 976640190X ISBN 13 : 9789766401900

Editeur : University of the West Indies Press, 2006

Synopsis

Haiti, its revolution and its culture remain largely unknown or misunderstood in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays seeks to both elucidate aspects of Haitian history and culture and provoke interest in readers and scholars for further research in these fields. Several general guiding questions connect the essays: What were, what are the cultural repercussions of Haiti's revolution, in Haiti and elsewhere? What is the truth of Haiti, its history, its intellectual traditions, its culture? What role has culture played in shaping Haiti's history, and conversely, how has Haiti's history determined, inspired, liberated and restricted Haitian culture and thought? In a land that has constantly relived its past, how can we imagine a Haitian future? Can we rethink history and memory? Can an understanding of post-independence culture and thought point tentatively to a way out of the traps of the past, without effecting a counterproductive forgetting of the revolution? to these questions: the history of Haitian revolutionary universalism; the idea of the Caribbean's historical lack and its application to Haiti; the relationship between personal and political revolutions in Yanick Lahens's fiction; the attempt to write personal history in Edwidge Danticat's work; the role of Haiti and the revolution in forming ideas of race; the importance of the nineteenth-century Haitian intellectual Antenor Firmin in the development of the discipline of anthropology; the influence of St. Domingue refugees in the genesis of New Orleans jazz; the prevalence of the Haytian Fear narrative in nineteenth-century Trinidad; and the many and diverse post-independence representations of Toussaint Louverture. This book will be of interest to students and readers of Haitian literature, history and culture, as well as those interested in broader Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies and African-American studies.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

MARTIN MUNRO is Winthrop-King Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Director of the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. His publications include Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas and Writing on the Fault Line: Haitian Literature and the Earthquake of 2010.

Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw is Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Literatures, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of the West Indies Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 976640190X
• ISBN 13: 9789766401900
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible