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Author:

Jenson, Deborah.

Title:

Beyond the slave narrative : politics, sex, and manuscripts in the Haitian revolution / Deborah Jenson.

Publisher:

Liverpool University Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

ix, 322 p. : ill., facsims. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Dessalines, Jean-Jacques,--1758-1806.
Toussaint Louverture,--1743-1803.
Haitian poetry (French Creole)--History and criticism.
Haiti--Literature and the revolution.--Revolution, 1791-1804--Literature and the revolution.
Haiti--Politics and government--1791-1804.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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 -- Authorizing the libertine sphere. Traumatic indigeneity : the (anti)colonial politics of "having" a Creole literature 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.

Series:

Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 4

ISBN:

1846314976 (hbk.)
9781846314971 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)655671212

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)