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Author Bergeaud, Emeric, 1818-1857, author.

Title Stella : a novel of the Haitian Revolution / Émeric Bergeaud ; Translated and Edited by Lesley S. Curtis and Christen Mucher
Published New York ; London : New York University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xxxviii, 195 pages)
Series America and the long 19th century
America and the long 19th century.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors' Acknowledgments -- Editors' Introduction -- Author's Note -- To the Reader -- Stella -- Glossary of Foreign Words and Expressions -- Original Explanatory Notes -- Editors' Notes -- About the Editors
Summary Stella, first published in 1859, is an imaginative retelling of Haiti's fight for independence from slavery and French colonialism. Set during the years of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), Stella tells the story of two brothers, Romulus and Remus, who help transform their homeland from the French colony of Saint-Domingue to the independent republic of Haiti. Inspired by the sacrifice of their African mother Marie and Stella, the spirit of Liberty, Romulus and Remus must learn to work together to found a new country based on the principles of freedom and equality. This new translation and critical edition of Émeric Bergeaud's allegorical novel makes Stella available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Considered the first novel written by a Haitian, Stella tells of the devastation and deprivation that colonialism and slavery wrought upon Bergeaud's homeland. Unique among nineteenth-century accounts, Stella gives a pro-Haitian version of the Haitian Revolution, a bloody but just struggle that emancipated a people, and it charges future generations with remembering the sacrifices and glory of their victory. Bergeaud's novel demonstrates that the Haitians--not the French--are the true inheritors of the French Revolution, and that Haiti is the realization of its republican ideals. At a time in which Haitian Studies is becoming increasingly important within the English-speaking world, this edition calls attention to the rich though under-examined world of nineteenth-century Haiti
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-189, 191-194)
Notes English
Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR platform, viewed January 4, 2017)
Subject National liberation movements -- Haiti -- Fiction
Slavery -- Haiti -- History -- Fiction
FICTION -- General.
French colonies
National liberation movements
Slavery
SUBJECT Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Fiction
France -- West Indies -- Colonies -- Fiction
Subject Haiti
West Indies
Genre/Form Haitian fiction
Historical fiction, Caribbean (French)
Fiction
History
Form Electronic book
Author Curtis, Lesley S., editor, translator.
Mucher, Christen, editor, translator.
LC no. 2015009275
ISBN 9781479827763
1479827762
1479895423
9781479895427
Other Titles Stella. English