Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism [[electronic resource] /] / by Marlene L. Daut

• Autore: Daut Marlene L
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2017.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XXXIX, 244 p. 8 illus.)
• Disciplina: 809
• Soggetto topico: Literature ; Literature, Modern—18th century; Literature—History and criticism; Imperialism; Postcolonial/World Literature; Eighteenth-Century Literature; Literary History; Imperialism and Colonialism
• Soggetto geografico: Haiti History 1804-; Haiti
• Soggetto genere / forma: Biography; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; History
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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. .
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
• ISBN: 1-137-47067-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910255085603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: The New Urban Atlantic