This title provides a literary history of the Haitian Revolution that explores how scientific ideas about 'race' affected 19th-century understandings of the Haitian Revolution and, conversely, how understandings of the Haitian Revolution affected 19th-century scientific ideas about race.
Contents
From "monstruous hybridity" to englightenment literacy -- Transgressing the trope of the "tropical temptress" : representation and resistance in colonial Saint-Domingue -- The trope of the tragic "mulato/a" and the Haitian Revolution -- Requiem for the "colored historian"; or the 'mulatto legend of history.'
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