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The Haitian revolution in the literary imagination : radical horizons, conservative constraints
Title
The Haitian revolution in the literary imagination : radical horizons, conservative constraints / Philip Kaisary.
ISBN
9780813935461 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813935466 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813935478 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813935474 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813935485 (e-book)
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2014]
Physical Description
xiii, 237 pages ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 09, 2014
Series
New World studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Radical universalism: the Haitian revolution, Aimé Césaire, and C.L.R. James
Langston Hughes: Harlem and Haiti
Return to négritude: the Haitian revolution and René Depestre's Un arc-en-ciel pour l'occident chrétien
The Haitian revolution and radical visual politics: Jacob Lawrence, Kimathi Donkor, and the cultures of philately
Edouard Glissant's Monsieur Toussaint: conservatism hidden in Relation
Ideological frailty and the marvelous in Alejo Carpentier's El reino de este mundo
The aesthetics of cyclical pessimism: Derek Walcott's Haitian trilogy
Fantasizing the Haitian revolution with Madison Smartt Bell.
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