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Beyond the slave narrative : politics, sex, and manuscripts in the Haitian revolution

Title
Beyond the slave narrative : politics, sex, and manuscripts in the Haitian revolution / Deborah Jenson.
Author
Jenson, Deborah.
Publication
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.

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Description
ix, 322 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 4
Uniform Title
Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 4.
Alternative Title
Politics, sex, and manuscripts in the Haitian revolution
Subject
  • Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 1758-1806
  • Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803
  • Haitian literature (French Creole) > History and criticism
  • Haitian poetry (French Creole) > History and criticism
  • Slavery in literature
  • Haiti > History > Literature and the revolution. > Revolution, 1791-1804
  • Haiti > Politics and government > 1791-1804
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • Some text in Creole or French.
Contents
Introduction : race and voice in the archives : mediated testimony and interracial commerce in Saint-Domingue -- pt. I. Authorizing the political sphere. Toussaint Louverture, "Spin Doctor"? : launching the Haitian revolution in the media sphere -- Before Malcolm X, Dessalines : postcoloniality in a colonial world -- Dessalines's America -- Reading between the lines : Dessalines's anticolonial imperialism in Venezuela and Trinidad -- Kidnapped narratives : the lost heir of Henry Christophe and the imagined communities of the African diaspora -- pt. II. Authorizing the libertine sphere. Traumatic indigeneity : the (anti)colonial politics of "having" a Creole literary culture -- Mimetic mastery and colonial mimicry : the "candio" in the popular Creole (Kreyòl) literary tradition -- Dissing rivals, love for sale : the courtesans' rap and the not-so tragic Mulatta.
Call Number
Sc E 13-208
ISBN
  • 9781846314971
  • 1846314976
OCLC
655671212
Author
Jenson, Deborah.
Title
Beyond the slave narrative : politics, sex, and manuscripts in the Haitian revolution / Deborah Jenson.
Imprint
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.
Series
Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 4
Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 4.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language
Some text in Creole or French.
Research Call Number
Sc E 13-208
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