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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818963303321

Autore

Joseph Celucien L

Titolo

Haitian modernity and liberative interruptions : discourse on race, religion, and freedom / / Celucien L. Joseph

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7618-6257-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 p.)

Classificazione

NK 3040

Disciplina

972.94

Soggetti

Religion and politics - Haiti

History

Haiti Social life and customs

Haiti History

Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

An appraisal of recent scholarship on the Haitian Revolution -- The rhetoric of prayer : Dutty Boukman, the discourse of "freedom from below," and the politics of God -- Prophetic religion, violence, and black freedom : reading Makandal's project of Black liberation through a Fanonian postcolonial lens of decolonization and theory of revolutionary humanism -- "A city upon a hill" : Haiti, religion and race : Frederick Douglass' freedom discourse and the significance of the Haitian Revolution as a freedom event in modernity -- The spirit of revolution, the spirit of Black freedom : the representation of the Haitian Revolution and the function of Black religion in Langston Hughes' Emperor of Haiti.