Beyond the slave narrative : politics, sex, and manuscripts in the Haitian revolution / Deborah Jenson

Author:: Jenson, Deborah
Additional Titles:: Politics, sex, and manuscripts in the Haitian revolution
Published:: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.
Physical Description:: ix, 322 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm.

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Series:

Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 4

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Authorizing the Political Sphere -- 1.Toussaint Louverture, "Spin Doctor"? Launching the Haitian Revolution in the Media Sphere -- 2.Before Malcolm X, Dessalines: Postcoloniality in a Colonial World -- 3.Dessalines's America -- 4.Reading Between the Lines: Dessalines's Anticolonial Imperialism in Venezuela and Trinidad -- 5.Kidnapped Narratives: The Lost Heir of Henry Christophe and the Imagined Communities of the African Diaspora -- pt. II Authorizing the Libertine Sphere -- 6.Traumatic Indigeneity: The (Anti)Colonial Politics of "Having" a Creole Literary Culture -- 7.Mimetic Mastery and Colonial Mimicry: The "Candio" in the Popular Creole (Kreyol) Literary Tradition -- 8.Dissing Rivals, Love for Sale: The Courtesans' Rap and the Not-So Tragic Mulatta.

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ISBN:

9781846314971 (hbk.)
1846314976 (hbk.)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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