Modernity Disavowed : Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Truncations of Modernity -- PART I Cuba -- 1 The Deadly Hermeneutics of the Trial of José Antonio Aponte -- 2 Civilization and Barbarism: Cuban Wall Painting -- 3 Beyond National Culture, the Abject: The Case of Plácido -- 4 Cuban Antislavery Narra...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Truncations of Modernity -- PART I Cuba -- 1 The Deadly Hermeneutics of the Trial of José Antonio Aponte -- 2 Civilization and Barbarism: Cuban Wall Painting -- 3 Beyond National Culture, the Abject: The Case of Plácido -- 4 Cuban Antislavery Narratives and the Origins of Literary Discourse -- PART II Santo Domingo/The Dominican Republic -- 5 Memory, Trauma, History -- 6 Guilt and Betrayal in Santo Domingo -- 7 What Do the Haitians Want? -- 8 Fictions of Literary History -- PART III Saint Domingue/Haiti -- 9 Literature and the Theater of Revolution -- 10 ‘‘General Liberty, or The Planters in Paris’’ -- 11 Foundational Fictions: Postrevolutionary Constitutions I -- 12 Life in the Kingdom of the North -- 13 Liberty and Reason of State: Postrevolutionary Constitutions II -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Imperial Constitution of Haiti, 1805 -- Appendix B. Chronology -- Notes -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung