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Beyond the slave narrative : politics, sex, and manuscripts in the Haitian revolution /
An introduction to the Afro-diasporic literature of the Haitian Revolution, Beyond the Slave Narrative frames the unique contributions to anti-colonial thought of Haitian general Jean-Jacques Dessalines and other singular Haitian voices.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Liverpool studies in international slavery ;
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Race and Voice in the Archives: Mediated Testimony and Interracial Commerce in Saint-Domingue; Part I: Authorizing the Political Sphere; 1 Toussaint Louverture, "Spin Doctor"? Launching the Haitian Revolution in the Media Sphere; 2 Before Malcolm X, Dessalines: Postcoloniality in a Colonial World; 3 Dessalines's America; 4 Reading Between the Lines: Dessalines's Anticolonial Imperialism in Venezuela and Trinidad; 5 Kidnapped Narratives: The Lost Heir of Henry Christophe and the Imagined Communities of the African Diaspora.
- Part II: Authorizing the Libertine Sphere6 Traumatic Indigeneity: The (Anti)Colonial Politics of "Having" a Creole Literary Culture; 7 Mimetic Mastery and Colonial Mimicry: The "Candio" in the Popular Creole (Kreyòl) Literary Tradition; 8 Dissing Rivals, Love for Sale: The Courtesans' Rap and the Not-So Tragic Mulatta; Epilogue; Index.