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Jonas Ross Kjærgård - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the public sphere of the Haitian post Revolution conditioned communication in louis dubroca and baron de vastey
Colonial Latin American Review, 2021Co-Authors: Jonas Ross KjærgårdAbstract:It would be difficult to find two more different pamphlets from the Haitian Revolution and post-Revolutionary period than the two under consideration in this essay. Louis Dubroca’s La vie de Toussa...
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kleist and haiti the Haitian Revolution in heinrich von kleist s die verlobung in st domingo
Karib – Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies, 2018Co-Authors: Jonas Ross KjærgårdAbstract:This article revisits the question of how to interpret Heinrich von Kleist’s short story “Die Verlobung in St. Domingo”. While Kleist specialists have tended to insufficiently relate the story to the developing field of Haitian studies, scholars more attuned to the literary history of the Haitian Revolution have only inadequately understood the characteristic textual ambivalences of Kleist’s style and politics. In trying to bridge the gap between these two reading modes, the article discusses Kleist and his short story in a double context of Prussian and Caribbean politics.
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Kleist and Haiti: The Haitian Revolution in Heinrich Von Kleist’s 'Die Verlobung in St. Domingo'
'Stockholm University Press', 2018Co-Authors: Jonas Ross KjærgårdAbstract:This article revisits the question of how to interpret Heinrich von Kleist’s short story “Die Verlobung in St. Domingo”. While Kleist specialists have tended to insufficiently relate the story to the developing field of Haitian studies, scholars more attuned to the literary history of the Haitian Revolution have only inadequately understood the characteristic textual ambivalences of Kleist’s style and politics. In trying to bridge the gap between these two reading modes, the article discusses Kleist and his short story in a double context of Prussian and Caribbean politics
Kasia Mika - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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new beginnings without new heroes 1791 1804 Haitian Revolution and the 2010 earthquake in nick lake s in darkness 2012
Karib – Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies, 2018Co-Authors: Kasia MikaAbstract:This article analyses Nick Lake’s In Darkness (2012), a young adult novel which joins together, across parallel narrative threads, stories of Haiti’s 1791–1804 Revolution and its post-2010 earthquake present. I examine the novel’s use of twinning, explicitly rooted in the complex figure of divine twins in Vodou, marasa, and the parallels and tensions that this variation of a ‘multistranded narrative’ (McCullum 1999: 36) creates in the novel’s vision of Haiti’s futures. The twinning of the two narrative strands in Lake’s In Darkness works across multiple levels. First, it effectively popularises the knowledge of a key historical event, the Haitian Revolution, and Haiti’s more recent history, pointing to their contemporary relevance. Second, it presents the reader with a range of subject positions, formed around individual responses to violence, that invite nuanced conceptualisations of selfhood and intersubjectivity. Thirdly, the coming together of the two narratives in the novel’s consideration of individual and collective futures exposes the tensions within the teleological trajectory of rescue and recovery: escaping such linear designs, the collective work of recovering is an open-ended and asynchronous process. Finally, in its turn to the Revolutionary history, the novel points to the ways in which Haiti’s radical past provokes new visions of collective futures, ones that take up the task of recovering, and working towards the realization, of the guiding ideals of the Haitian Revolution.
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New Beginnings Without New Heroes? 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution and the 2010 Earthquake in Nick Lake’s 'In Darkness' (2012)
'Stockholm University Press', 2018Co-Authors: Kasia MikaAbstract:This article analyses Nick Lake’s 'In Darkness' (2012), a young adult novel which joins together, across parallel narrative threads, stories of Haiti’s 1791–1804 Revolution and its post-2010 earthquake present. I examine the novel’s use of twinning, explicitly rooted in the complex figure of divine twins in Vodou, 'marasa', and the parallels and tensions that this variation of a ‘multistranded narrative’ (McCullum 1999: 36) creates in the novel’s vision of Haiti’s futures. The twinning of the two narrative strands in Lake’s 'In Darkness' works across multiple levels. First, it effectively popularises the knowledge of a key historical event, the Haitian Revolution, and Haiti’s more recent history, pointing to their contemporary relevance. Second, it presents the reader with a range of subject positions, formed around individual responses to violence, that invite nuanced conceptualisations of selfhood and intersubjectivity. Thirdly, the coming together of the two narratives in the novel’s consideration of individual and collective futures exposes the tensions within the teleological trajectory of rescue and recovery: escaping such linear designs, the collective work of recovering is an open-ended and asynchronous process. Finally, in its turn to the Revolutionary history, the novel points to the ways in which Haiti’s radical past provokes new visions of collective futures, ones that take up the task of recovering, and working towards the realization, of the guiding ideals of the Haitian Revolution
Timcke Scott - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Book review: making the black jacobins: making the Black Jacobins: C.L.R. James and the drama of history by Rachel Douglas
London School of Economics and Political Science, 2020Co-Authors: Timcke ScottAbstract:IIn Making The Black Jacobins: C. L. R. James and the Drama of History, Rachel Douglas examines the formation of James’s groundbreaking work on the Haitian Revolution, exploring its genesis, transformations and afterlives through its different texts, stagings and editions. Positioning The Black Jacobins as a ‘palimpsestually multilayered text-network’ formed through processes of rewriting and revision, this book is a welcome addition to scholarship on James and offers a thoughtful approach to the relationship between Marxist theory and historical analysis, writes Scott Timcke
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Book review: making the Black Jacobins: C.L.R. James and the drama of history by Rachel Douglas
London School of Economics and Political Science, 2020Co-Authors: Timcke ScottAbstract:In Making The Black Jacobins: C. L. R. James and the Drama of History, Rachel Douglas examines the formation of James’s groundbreaking work on the Haitian Revolution, exploring its genesis, transformations and afterlives through its different texts, stagings and editions. Positioning The Black Jacobins as a ‘palimpsestually multilayered text-network’ formed through processes of rewriting and revision, this book is a welcome addition to scholarship on James and offers a thoughtful approach to the relationship between Marxist theory and historical analysis, writes Scott Timcke
Franklin W Knight - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the Haitian Revolution
The American Historical Review, 2000Co-Authors: Franklin W KnightAbstract:THE Haitian Revolution represents the most thorough case study of Revolutionary change anywhere in the history of the modern world.' In ten years of sustained internal and international warfare, a colony populated predominantly by plantation slaves overthrew both its colonial status and its economic system and established a new political state of entirely free individuals-with some ex-slaves constituting the new political authority. As only the second state to declare its independence in the Americas, Haiti had no viable administrative models to follow. The British North Americans who declared their independence in 1776 left slavery intact, and theirs was more a political Revolution than a social and economic one. The success of Haiti against all odds made social Revolutions a sensitive issue among the leaders of political revolt elsewhere in the Americas during the final years of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century.2 Yet the genesis of the Haitian Revolution cannot be separated from the wider concomitant events of the later eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Indeed, the period between 1750 and 1850 represented an age of spontaneous, interrelated Revolutions, and events in Saint
Michael J Dash - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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nous mourrons tous the Haitian Revolution goes underground
Karib – Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies, 2018Co-Authors: Michael J DashAbstract:In a lengthy 1967 interview held in Havana with Rene Depestre, Aime Cesaire may have made one of the most unintentionally misleading claims regarding the Haitian Revolution when he declared that “the first Negro epic of the New World was written by Haitians.” Curiously, this interview was never published in French but within a few years became widely available in English in the Anglophone Caribbean and the United States where the words “first negro epic” would have a powerful emotional impact. Paul Breslin in his pursuit of literary representations of the Haitian Revolution excuses Cesaire’s choice of the word epic by saying that he used it “in a colloquial sense.” However, I would like to take Cesaire at his word, as it were, and gauge the impact of the word epic on our reconstruction or “unsilencing” of the Haitian past.
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universal emancipation the Haitian Revolution and the radical enlightenment
Slavery & Abolition, 2010Co-Authors: Michael J DashAbstract:Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and The Radical Enlightenment, by Nick Nesbitt, Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2008, vii+257 pp., $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-2803-6 The p...
