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UNINA9910255085603321 |
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Autore |
Daut Marlene L |
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Titolo |
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism / / by Marlene L. Daut |
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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2017.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XXXIX, 244 p. 8 illus.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Literature |
Literature, Modern—18th century |
Literature—History and criticism |
Imperialism |
Postcolonial/World Literature |
Eighteenth-Century Literature |
Literary History |
Imperialism and Colonialism |
Biography |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
History |
Haiti History 1804- |
Haiti |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1 Introduction: Baron de Vastey in Haitian (Revolutionary) Context -- 2 What’s in a Name? Unfolding the Consequences of a Mistaken Identity -- 3 The Uses of Vastey: Reading Black Sovereignty Through Baron de Vastey in the Atlantic Public Sphere -- 4 Baron de Vastey’s Testimonio and the Politics of Black Memory -- 5 “Baron de Vastey and the Twentieth-Century Theater of Haitian Independence. . |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey’s extensive writings as a form of |
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what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse devoted to attacking the enlightenment foundations of colonialism. Daut argues that Vastey, the most important secretary of Haiti’s King Henry Christophe, was a pioneer in a tradition of deconstructing colonial racism and colonial slavery that is much more closely associated with twentieth-century writers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Aimé Césaire. By expertly forging exciting new historical and theoretical connections among Vastey and these later twentieth-century writers, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black Atlantic authors, such as Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs, Daut proves that any understanding of the genesis of Afro-diasporic thought must include Haiti’s Baron de Vastey. |
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