Modernity Disavowed : Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution /

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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 hun...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fischer, Sibylle (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2004]
Temas:
Black people > Cuba > History.
Black people > Dominican Republic > History.
Blacks > Cuba > History.
Blacks > Dominican Republic > History.
Literature and history.
Slave insurrections.
Slavery in literature.
HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Truncations of Modernity
  • PART I Cuba
  • 1 The Deadly Hermeneutics of the Trial of José Antonio Aponte
  • 2 Civilization and Barbarism: Cuban Wall Painting
  • 3 Beyond National Culture, the Abject: The Case of Plácido
  • 4 Cuban Antislavery Narratives and the Origins of Literary Discourse
  • PART II Santo Domingo/The Dominican Republic
  • 5 Memory, Trauma, History
  • 6 Guilt and Betrayal in Santo Domingo
  • 7 What Do the Haitians Want?
  • 8 Fictions of Literary History
  • PART III Saint Domingue/Haiti
  • 9 Literature and the Theater of Revolution
  • 10 ''General Liberty, or The Planters in Paris''
  • 11 Foundational Fictions: Postrevolutionary Constitutions I
  • 12 Life in the Kingdom of the North
  • 13 Liberty and Reason of State: Postrevolutionary Constitutions II
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A. Imperial Constitution of Haiti, 1805
  • Appendix B. Chronology
  • Notes
  • Index

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