The colonial system unveiled / / by Baron de Vastey ; translated and edited by Chris Bongie [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Vastey Pompée-Valentin, baron de, -1820?
• Pubblicazione: Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 972.9403
• Soggetto topico: Slavery - Haiti - History
• Soggetto geografico: Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804
• Classificazione: MI 80086
• Altri autori: BongieChris
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface: Baron de Vastey and Post/Revolutionary Haiti -- Jean Louis Vastey (1781-1820): A biographical sketch -- Introduction -- (1820) Death of a scribe -- (1814): The colonial system restored -- (1814-2014): Reading the Protean text -- The colonial system unveiled -- Supplementary Essays -- Monstrous testimony: Baron de Vastey and the politics of Black memory / Marlene Daul -- Abolition, sentiment, and the problem of agency in Le système colonial dévoilé / Doris Garraway -- Memories of development: Le système colonial dévoilé and the performance of literacy / Chris Bongie -- Afterword: Vastey and the system of colonial violence / Nick Nesbitt.
• Sommario/riassunto: <p>Long neglected in mainstream history books, the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) is now being claimed across a range of academic disciplines as an event of world-historical importance. The former slaves' victory over their French masters and the creation of the independent nation of Haiti in 1804 is being newly heralded not only as a seminal moment in the transnational formation of the 'black Atlantic' but as the most far-reaching manifestation of 'Radical Enlightenment'.</p><br> The best known Haitian writer to emerge in the years after the revolution is Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), who authored over ten books and pamphlets between 1814 and his murder in 1820. His first and most incendiary work, Le système colonial dévoilé (1814), provides a moving invocation of the horrors of slavery in pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue. Its trailblazing critique of colonialism anticipates by over a hundred years the anticolonial politics (and poetics) of Césaire, Fanon, and Sartre. <p></p><br> Translated here for the first time, Vastey's forceful unveiling of the colonial system will be compulsory reading for scholars across the humanities.<br> <p></p>
• Titolo autorizzato: The colonial system unveiled
• ISBN: 1-78138-970-5; 1-78138-730-3; 1-78138-593-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797713303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II