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Title Reinterpreting the Haitian revolution and its cultural aftershocks / edited by Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Published Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 184 pages)
Contents Open letter to the Haitians of 2004 / René Despestre -- Haiti Chimère : revolutionary universalism and its Caribbean context / J. Michael Dash -- Petrifying myths : lack and excess in Caribbean and Haitian histories / Martin Munro -- Lahens's revolution, or The words within / Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw -- Edwidge Danticat's The farming of bones : traumatic memories and the translucent narrator / Mireille Rosello -- Theories of "race" and the Haitian revolution / Georges Fouron -- Anténor Firmin : his legacy and continuing relevance / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban -- Re-creolizing swing : St Domingue refugees in the Govi of New Orleans / Keith Cartwright -- Haiti and the Haitian revolution in the political discourse of nineteenth-century Trinidad / Bridget Brereton -- The traveling revolution : situating Toussaint Louverture / Charles Forsdick -- What can Toussaint Louverture do for the Haitians of 2004? / René Depestre
Analysis Haitian revolution
Cultural aftershocks
Notes Based on papers presented at a conference organized and held at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, June 2004 - Introduction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803.
SUBJECT Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803 fast
Subject Haitian literature -- History and criticism
Nationalism -- Haiti
HISTORY.
Civilization
Haitian literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Nationalism
Politics and government
SUBJECT Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Influence
Haiti -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058342
Haiti -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058362
Subject Haiti
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Munro, Martin.
Walcott-Hackshaw, Elizabeth.
ISBN 9781435630956
1435630955