| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 322 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles |
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Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 4 |
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Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 4.
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| 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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 1758-1806.
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Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803.
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| SUBJECT |
Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 1758-1806 fast |
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Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803 fast |
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Dessalines, Jean-Jacques 1758-1806 gnd |
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Toussaint Louverture, François Dominique 1743-1803 gnd |
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Haitian poetry (French Creole) -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General.
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Haitian poetry (French Creole)
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Politics and government
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Literatur
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Politik
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Revolution
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Kreolisch-Französisch
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| SUBJECT |
Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Literature and the revolution
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Haiti -- Politics and government -- 1791-1804. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058364
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| Subject |
Haiti
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Haiti
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781846316517 |
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1846316510 |
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9781781386194 |
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1781386196 |
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