Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, C. Stieber<|

Haiti's Paper WarPost-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 18041954\nAuthor(s): Chelsea Stieber\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479802159, 978-1479802159\nSynopsis\n2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine\n Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation\n Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti's post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic. What transpired was a war of swords and of pens, waged in newspapers and periodicals, in literature, broadsheets, and fliers. In her analysis of Haitian writing that followed independence, Stieber composes a new literary history of Haiti, that challenges our interpretations of both freedom struggles and the postcolonial. By examining internal dissent during the revolution, Stieber reveals that the ve.