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Modernity disavowed : Haiti and the cultures of slavery in the age of revolution /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | John Hope Franklin Center book.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Truncations of modernity
- The deadly hermeneutics of the trial of José Antonio Aponte
- Civilization and barbarism : Cuban wall painting
- Beyond national culture, the abject : the case of Plácido
- Cuban antislavery narratives and the origins of literary discourse
- Memory, trauma, history
- Guilt and betrayal in Santo Domingo
- What do the Haitians want?
- Fictions of literary history
- Literature and the theater of revolution
- "General liberty or The planters in Paris"
- Foundational fictions : postrevolutionary constitutions I
- Life in the kingdom of the north
- Liberty and reason of state : postrevolutionary constitutions II
- Appendix: The Haitian Constitution of 1805.