Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Radical recuperations: universalism and transformation
  • Radical universalism: the Haitian revolution, Aime Cesaire, and C.L.R. James
  • Langston Hughes: Harlem and Haiti
  • Return to negritude: the Haitian revolution and Rene depestre's Un arc-en-ciel pour l'occident chretien
  • The Haitian revolution and radical visual politics: Jacob Lawrence, Kimathi Donkor, and the cultures of philately
  • pt. 2. Conservative visions: pessimism, seduction, and fantasy
  • Edouard Glissant's Monsieur Toussaint: conservatism hidden in La relation
  • Ideological frailty and the marvelous in Alejo Carpentier's El reino de este mundo
  • The aesthetics of cyclical pessimism: Derek Walcott's Haitian trilogy
  • Fantasizing the Haitian revolution with Madison Smartt Bell
  • Conclusion.