Based on papers presented at a conference organized and held at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, June 2004. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
What can Toussaint Louverture do for the Haitians of 2004? / René Depestre. Haiti Chimère : revolutionary universalism and its Caribbean context / J. Michael Dash -- Petrifying myths : lack and excess in Caribbean and Haitian histories / Martin Munro -- Lahens's revolution, or The words within / Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw -- Edwidge Danticat's The farming of bones : traumatic memories and the translucent narrator / Mireille Rosello -- Theories of race and the Haitian revolution / Georges Fouron -- Anténor Firmin : his legacy and continuing relevance / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban -- Re-creolizing swing : St Domingue refugees in the Govi of New Orleans / Keith Cartwright -- Haiti and the Haitian revolution in the political discourse of nineteenth-century Trinidad / Bridget Brereton -- The travelling revolution : situating Toussaint Louverture / Charles Forsdick -- What can Toussaint Louverture do for the Haitians of 2004? / René Depestre.
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