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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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Details
- 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
- Subjects
- Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803
- Haiti > Politics and government > 1791-1804
- Haitian poetry (French Creole) > History and criticism
- Haitian literature (French Creole) > History and criticism
- Slavery in literature
- Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 1758-1806
- Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Literature and the revolution
- 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 ; 4Liverpool 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