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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fischer, Sibylle, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
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.