Introduction / Kir Kuiken and Deborah Elise White -- The shadow of Voltaire : early Haitian literature and the claims of intertextuality / Chris Bongie -- Romantic fevers : calenture and calenda in the Americas / Mary Grace Albanese -- Toussaint Louverture : creating a public Romantic subject / Theresa M. Kelley -- Seeing into the very bones : C. L. R. James and William Wordsworth on figure, personhood, and revolutionary discourse / Brian McGrath -- Unavowed community in Kleist's Betrothal in San Domingo / Kir Kuiken -- "Despair begins with stupefaction" : unthinkable agencies in Hugo's Bug Jargal / Deborah Elise White -- Revolutionary resonances in Frances Watkins Harper's "Triumph of freedom" / Brigitte Fielder -- Revolutionary shattering : Emerson on the Haitian Revolution / Branka Arsić.
Summary:
"Haiti's Literary Legacies unpacks the theoretical, historical, and political resonance of the Haitian revolution across a multiplicity of European and American Romanticisms, including Haitian, British, French, and German traditions. Often referred to as the only successful slave uprising in history, the Haitian revolution at once fulfilled and surpassed Enlightenment conceptions of freedom and universality in ways that were crucial to global Romanticism, and yet these effects are only beginning to be studied by scholars and historians of Romanticism. This volume works at the intersection of Romantic and Caribbean studies to outline the myriad ways that the politicized literature of Romantic period engages the revolution in Haiti. Demonstrating the centrality of the Haitian revolution to the larger configuration of transnational Romantic writing, this collection articulates a literary legacy that speaks to our contemporary moment and our ongoing attempts to come to terms with the political, historical, and ecological genealogies of the present"-- Provided by publisher.
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