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Title:

The Haitian Revolution and the early United States : histories, textualities, geographies / edited by Elizabeth Maddock Dillon and Michael J. Drexler.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

vii, 422 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804.
Haiti--Literature and the revolution.--Revolution, 1791-1804--Literature and the revolution.
Haiti--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Haiti.
United States--History--1783-1815.

Other Authors:

Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock, editor.
Drexler, Michael J., editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-410) and index.

Contents:

In the shadow of Haiti : the Negro Seaman Act, counter-revolutionary St. Domingue, and black emigration / Edlie Wong. Revolutionary St. Domingue and the emerging Atlantic : paradigm of sovereignity / Carolyn Fick -- (Mis)reading the Revolution : Philadelphia and "St. Domingo", 1789-1792 / James Alexander Dun -- "The mischief that awaits us" : revolution, rumor, and serial unrest in the Early Republic / Duncan Faherty -- "Entirely different from any likeness I ever saw" : aesthetics as counter-memory historiography and the iconography of Toussaint Louverture / Ivy G. Wilson -- Frederick Douglass, Ant©♭nor Firmin, and the making of U.S.-Haitian relations / Laurent Dubois -- The Louisiana Purchase adn the Haitian Revolutioni / David Geggus -- Republic of medicine : immunology and national identity in the Age of Revolution / Cristobal Silva -- The occult Atlantic : Franklin, Mesmer, and the Haitian roots of modernity / Kirean M. Murphy -- In the shadow of Haiti : the Negro Seaman Act, counter-revolutionary St. Domingue, and black emigration / Edlie Wong.
Epilogue : two archives and the idea of Haiti / Anthony Bogues. The constitution of Toussaint : another origin of African American literature / Michael J. Drewler and Ed White -- Haiti and the New-World novel / Gretchen K. Woertendyke -- Dispossession and cosmopolitan community in Leonora Sansay's Secret history / Si©Øn Silyn Roberts -- Theatrical rebels and refugees : The triumps of love, the Haitian Revolution, and early American performance tradition / Peter P. Reed -- The "alpha and omega" of Haitian literature : Baron de Vastey adn the U.S. audience of Haitian political writing, 1807-1825 / Marlene L. Daut -- Epilogue : two archives and the idea of Haiti / Anthony Bogues.

Series:

Early American studies, 1543-4273

ISBN:

0812248198
9780812248197

OCLC:

(OCoLC)927401322

Locations:

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