The Haitian revolution in the literary imagination : radical horizons conservative constraints Pt. 1. Radical recuperations: universalism and transformation Radical universalism: the Haitian revolution Aime Cesaire and C.L.R. James Langston Hughes: Harlem and Haiti Return to negritude: the Haitian revolution and Rene depestres Un arc en ciel pour loccident chretien The Haitian revolution and radical visual politics: Jacob Lawrence Kimathi Donkor and the cultures of philately Pt. 2. Conservative visions: pessimism seduction and fantasy Edouard Glissants Monsieur Toussaint: conservatism hidden in La relation Ideological frailty and the marvelous in Alejo Carpentiers El reino de este mundo The aesthetics of cyclical pessimism: Derek Walcotts Haitian trilogy Fantasizing the Haitian revolution with Madison Smartt Bell Conclusion