عنوان

Modernity disavowed :

(Number (ISBN

0822332523

(Number (ISBN

0822332906

(Number (ISBN

9780822332527

(Number (ISBN

9780822332909

Title Proper

Modernity disavowed :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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Haiti and the cultures of slavery in the age of revolution /

First Statement of Responsibility

Sibylle Fischer.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Durham :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Duke University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2004.

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©2004

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 364 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

"A John Hope Franklin Center book."

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-354) and index.

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Truncations of modernity -- The deadly hermeneutics of the trial of José Antonio Aponte -- Civilization and barbarism : Cuban wall painting -- Beyond national culture, the abject : the case of Plácido -- Cuban antislavery narratives and the origins of literary discourse -- Memory, trauma, history -- Guilt and betrayal in Santo Domingo -- What do the Haitians want? -- Fictions of literary history -- Literature and the theater of revolution -- "General liberty or The planters in Paris" -- Foundational fictions : postrevolutionary constitutions I -- Life in the kingdom of the north -- Liberty and reason of state : postrevolutionary constitutions II -- Appendix: The Haitian Constitution of 1805.

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Modernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this seminal event have been suppressed and ignored in historical and cultural records over the past two hundred years, Sibylle Fischer contends that revolutionary antislavery and its subsequent disavowal are central to the formation and understanding of Western modernity. She develops a powerful argument that the denial of revolutionary antislavery eventually became a crucial ingredient in a range of hegemonic thought, including Creole nationalism in the Caribbean and G.W.F. Hegel's master-slave dialectic. Fischer draws on history, literary scholarship, political theory, philosophy, and psychoanalytic theory to examine a range of material, including Haitian political and legal documents and nineteenth-century Cuban and Dominican literature and art. She demonstrates that at a time when racial taxonomies were beginning to mutate into scientific racism and racist biology, the Haitian revolutionaries recognized the question of race as political. Yet, as the cultural records of neighboring Cuba and the Dominican Republic show, the story of the Haitian Revolution has been told as one outside politics and beyond human language, as a tale of barbarism and unspeakable violence. From the time of the revolution onward, the story has been confined to the margins of history: to rumors, oral histories, and confidential letters. Fischer maintains that without accounting for revolutionary antislavery and its subsequent disavowal, Western modernity - including its hierarchy of values, depoliticization of social goals having to do with racial differences, and privileging of claims of national sovereignty - cannot be fully understood.

Title

Modernity disavowed.

Blacks-- Cuba-- History.

Blacks-- Dominican Republic-- History.

Literature and history.

Slave insurrections.

Slavery in literature.

Esclavage dans la littérature

Littérature et histoire

Noirs-- Cuba-- Histoire

Noirs-- République dominicaine-- Histoire

Révoltes d'esclaves

15.85 history of America.

Blacks.

Franse Revolutie.

Literature and history.

Sklaverei

Slave insurrections.

Slavernij.

Slavery in literature.

Unabhängigkeitskrieg

Haiti, History, Revolution, 1791-1804, Literature and the revolution.

Haïti, Histoire, 1791-1804 (Révolution), Littérature et révolution

Cuba.

Dominican Republic.

Haiti

Haiti.

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Fischer, Sibylle,1962-

Date of Transaction

20200822135956.0

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[Book]

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