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

Name: Modernity Disavowed Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution
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ISBN: 9780822332909

ISBN-10: 0822332906

ISBN-13: 9780822332909

Edition: 2004

Authors: Sibylle Fischer

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.49" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Tuncations of Modernity



Cuba



The Deadly Hermenuetics of the Trial of Jose Antonio Aponte



Civilization and Barbarism: Cuban Wall Painting



Beyon National Culture, the Abject: The Case of Placido



Cuban Antislavery Narratives and the Origins of Literary Discourse



Santo Domingo




Memory, Trauma, History



Guilt and Betrayal in Santo Domingo



What Do the Haitians Want?



Fictions of Literary History



Saint Domingue / Haiti



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


Conclusion



Imperial Constitution of Haiti



Chronology


Notes


Index