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

Title:
Beyond the slave narrative : politics, sex, and manuscripts in the Haitian revolution /
Author:
Jenson, Deborah.
Published:
Liverpool : c2012.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emmanuel College
Contents:
Introduction : race and voice in the archives : mediated testimony and interracial commerce in Saint-Domingue -- pt. I. Authorizing the political sphere. Toussaint Louverture, "Spin Doctor"? : launching the Haitian revolution in the media sphere -- Before Malcolm X, Dessalines : postcoloniality in a colonial world -- Dessalines's America -- Reading between the lines : Dessalines's anticolonial imperialism in Venezuela and Trinidad -- Kidnapped narratives : the lost heir of Henry Christophe and the imagined communities of the African diaspora -- pt. II. Authorizing the libertine sphere. Traumatic indigeneity : the (anti)colonial politics of "having" a Creole literary culture -- Mimetic mastery and colonial mimicry : the "candio" in the popular Creole (Kreyòl) literary tradition -- Dissing rivals, love for sale : the courtesans' rap and the not-so tragic Mulatta.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emmanuel Main Stacks
PM7854.H35 J46 2012 – Available