Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution And Its Cultural Aftershocks

CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
1. OPEN LETTER TO THE HAITIANS OF 2004......Page 18
2. HAÏTI CHIMÈRE: REVOLUTIONARY UNIVERSALISM AND ITS CARIBBEAN CONTEXT......Page 26
3. PETRIFYING MYTHS: LACK AND EXCESS IN CARIBBEAN AND HAITIAN HISTORIES......Page 37
4. LAHENS'S REVOLUTION, OR THE WORDS WITHIN......Page 55
5. EDWIDGE DANTICAT'S THE FARMING OF BONES: TRAUMATIC MEMORIES AND THE TRANSLUCENT NARRATOR......Page 72
6. THEORIES OF "RACE" AND THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION......Page 87
7. ANTÉNOR FIRMIN: HIS LEGACY AND CONTINUING RELEVANCE......Page 103
8. RE-CREOLIZING SWING: ST DOMINGUE REFUGEES IN THE GOVI OF NEW ORLEANS......Page 119
9. HAITI AND THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRINIDAD......Page 140
10. THE TRAVELLING REVOLUTIONARY: SITUATING TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE......Page 167
11. WHAT CAN TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE DO FOR THE HAITIANS OF 2004?......Page 185
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C......Page 191
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H......Page 193
L......Page 194
P......Page 195
S......Page 196
V......Page 197
Z......Page 198
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 199