| Description |
1 online resource (xxxix, 244 pages) |
| Series |
The new urban Atlantic |
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New urban Atlantic.
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| Contents |
1 Introduction: Baron de Vastey in Haitian (Revolutionary) Context -- 2 What's in a Name? Unfolding the Consequences of a Mistaken Identity -- 3 The Uses of Vastey: Reading Black Sovereignty Through Baron de Vastey in the Atlantic Public Sphere -- 4 Baron de Vastey's Testimonio and the Politics of Black Memory -- 5 "Baron de Vastey and the Twentieth-Century Theater of Haitian Independence |
| Summary |
Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey's extensive writings as a form of what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse devoted to attacking the enlightenment foundations of colonialism. Daut argues that Vastey, the most important secretary of Haiti's King Henry Christophe, was a pioneer in a tradition of deconstructing colonial racism and colonial slavery that is much more closely associated with twentieth-century writers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Aimé Césaire. By expertly forging exciting new historical and theoretical connections among Vastey and these later twentieth-century writers, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black Atlantic authors, such as Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs, Daut proves that any understanding of the genesis of Afro-diasporic thought must include Haiti's Baron de Vastey |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Vastey, Pompée-Valentin, baron de, 1781-1820? -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Vastey, Pompée-Valentin, baron de, 1781-1820? fast |
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Postcolonialism -- History and criticism
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African diaspora -- History and criticism
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Statesmen -- Haiti -- Biography
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
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African diaspora
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Postcolonialism
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Statesmen
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| SUBJECT |
Haiti -- History -- 1804- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058357
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| Subject |
Haiti
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137470676 |
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1137470674 |
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1137479698 |
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9781137479693 |
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9781349693757 |
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1349693758 |
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9781349693764 |
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1349693766 |
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