Echoes of the Haitian revolution, 1804-2004 / edited by Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Munro, Martin
Walcott-Hackshaw, Elizabeth
Language:English
Published: Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Haiti > Civilization > 19th century.
Haiti > Civilization > 20th century.
Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Influence.
Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > In literature.
Haitian literature > History and criticism.
Haiti > Politics and government > 1804-
Physical Description:xiii, 191 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Hidden in plain view : evasions, invasions and invisible nations / Edward E. Baptist
  • St Domingue refugees in New Orleans : identity and cultural influences / Nathalie Dessens
  • Arguing around Toussaint : the revolutionary in a postcolonial frame / Charles Forsdick
  • The Haitian revolution and a North American griot : The life of Toussaint L-Ouverture by Jacob Lawrence / Carolyn Williams
  • Reading in the dark? : racial hierarchy and miscegenation in Heinrich von Kleist's Die Verlobung in San Domingo / Wendy Sutherland
  • "Les Créoles galantes?" : white women and the Haitian revolution / Kathleen Gyssels
  • Revolutionary acts of translation : language and freedom in Guy Endore's Babouk / Willaim Scott
  • Letters lost at sea : Edwidge Danticat and orality / Brenna Munro
  • Being Haitian in New York : migration and transnationalism in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory / Adlai Murdoch
  • Dancing at the border : cultural translations and the writer's return / Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
  • Hatred chérie : history, silence and animosity in three Haitian novels / Martin Munro.