The Haiti issue
Subtitle: 1804 and nineteenth-century French studies
By: [Deborah Jenson, special editor].
Contributors: Jensen, Deborah.
Series: Yale French studies -- no. 107
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Haiti -- History -- 1804-
Other titles: 1804 and nineteenth-century French studies
Description: "In "The Haiti Issue," the controversial events of the 2004 Haitian bicentennial are a catalyst for reassessment of the legacies of the 1804 independence movement in nineteenth-century France and Haiti. Scholars address comparative paradigms of the French and Haitian Revolutions, the impact of Haiti on abolitionism, feminism, and African colonialism, nineteenth-century Haitian writings, twentieth-century literary recreations of the Haitian Revolution, and echoes of Haitian revolutionary events in post/colonial culture."--BOOK JACKET
Table of contents: title: Editor's preface :; title: Nineteenth-century 'postcolonialités' at the Bicentennial of the Haitian Independence -- Deborah Jenson -- The; title: Idea of 1804 -- Nick Nesbitt; title: Forget Haiti : Baron Roger and the new Africa -- Christopher L. Miller; title: "Monotonies of history" : Baron Vastey and the Mulatto legend of Derek Walcott's 'Haitian trilogy' -- Chris Bongie; title: Haiti and abolitionism in 1825 : the example of Sophie Doin -- Doris Y. Kadish -- The; title: First of the (black) memorialists : Toussaint Louverture -- Daniel Desormeaux; title: Haitian creole at the dawn of independence -- Albert Valdman; title: From the kidnapping(s) of the Louvertures to the alledged kidnapping of Aristide : legacies of slavery in the post/colonial world-- Deborah Jenson.