Beyond the slave narrative [[electronic resource] ] : politics, sex, and manuscripts in the Haitian revolution / / Deborah Jenson
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Jenson Deborah
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| Titolo: |
Beyond the slave narrative [[electronic resource] ] : politics, sex, and manuscripts in the Haitian revolution / / Deborah Jenson
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| Pubblicazione: | Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (327 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 840.997294 |
| Soggetto topico: | Haitian poetry (French Creole) - History and criticism |
| Soggetto geografico: | Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804 Literature and the revolution |
| Haiti Politics and government 1791-1804 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Race and Voice in the Archives: Mediated Testimony and Interracial Commerce in Saint-Domingue; Part I: Authorizing the Political Sphere; 1 Toussaint Louverture, "Spin Doctor"? Launching the Haitian Revolution in the Media Sphere; 2 Before Malcolm X, Dessalines: Postcoloniality in a Colonial World; 3 Dessalines's America; 4 Reading Between the Lines: Dessalines's Anticolonial Imperialism in Venezuela and Trinidad; 5 Kidnapped Narratives: The Lost Heir of Henry Christophe and the Imagined Communities of the African Diaspora |
| Part II: Authorizing the Libertine Sphere6 Traumatic Indigeneity: The (Anti)Colonial Politics of "Having" a Creole Literary Culture; 7 Mimetic Mastery and Colonial Mimicry: The "Candio" in the Popular Creole (Kreyòl) Literary Tradition; 8 Dissing Rivals, Love for Sale: The Courtesans' Rap and the Not-So Tragic Mulatta; Epilogue; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | An introduction to the Afro-diasporic literature of the Haitian Revolution, Beyond the Slave Narrative frames the unique contributions to anti-colonial thought of Haitian general Jean-Jacques Dessalines and other singular Haitian voices. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Beyond the slave narrative |
| ISBN: | 1-78138-619-6 |
| 1-84631-651-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456897603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Liverpool studies in international slavery ; ; 4.