Echoes of the Haitian revolution, 1804-2004 /
edited by Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw.
- Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2008.
- xiii, 191 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Cr eoles galantes?" : white women and the Haitian revolution / Kathleen Gyssels -- Revolutionary acts of translation : language and freedom in Guy Endore's Babouk / William 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 ch erie : history, silence and animosity in three Haitian novels / Martin Munro.
"The bicentenary of Haitian independence in 2004 triggered a renewed interest in Haitian history and culture. In many ways, however, much work is still required in this fertile field. Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its Cultural Aftershocks, the first collection of essays edited by Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, addressed the repercussions of the Haitian Revolution in Haiti, the Caribbean, North America and Europe. This present volume develops and complements the previous collection to meet the growing demand for original scholarly work on Haiti. Widening the cultural lens to include diasporic studies, art, and questions of race and gender, Echoes of the Haitian Revolution exposes how the history of Haiti has shaped our ideas of race, nation and civilization in ways that we are often unaware of. Haiti's lessons continue to engage us in a dynamic dialogue that compels us to question and revisit received arguments. The essays collected here provoke and stimulate these necessary conversations by approaching the legacies and repercussions of the revolution from a cultural perspective."--Publisher description.