| Description |
xiii, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"A John Hope Franklin Center book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-354) and index. |
| Contents |
Truncations of modernity -- The deadly hermeneutics of the trial of José Antonio Aponte -- Civilization and barbarism : Cuban wall painting -- Beyond national culture, the abject : the case of Plácido -- Cuban antislavery narratives and the origins of literary discourse -- Memory, trauma, history -- Guilt and betrayal in Santo Domingo -- What do the Haitians want? -- Fictions of literary history -- Literature and the theater of revolution -- "General liberty, or, The planters in Paris" -- Foundational fictions : post-revolutionary constitutions I -- Life in the kingdom of the north -- Liberty and reason of state : post-revolutionary constitutions II. |
| Subject |
Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Literature and the revolution.
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Slave rebellions.
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Slave rebellions. |
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Black people -- Cuba -- History.
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Black people. |
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Cuba. |
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History. |
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Black people -- Dominican Republic -- History.
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Dominican Republic. |
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Literature and history.
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Literature and history. |
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Slavery in literature.
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Slavery in literature. |
| ISBN |
0822332523 cloth alkaline paper |
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0822332906 paperback alkaline paper |
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