Tropics of Haiti by Marlene L. Daut - 9781781381847

Tropics of HaitiRace and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865\nAuthor(s): Marlene L. Daut\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781781381847, 978-1781381847\nSynopsis\nThe Haitian Revolution [tel] was an event of monumental world-historical significance, and here, in the first systematic literary history of those events, Haiti's war of independence is examined through the eyes of its actual and imagined participants, observers, survivors, and cultural descendants. The 'transatlantic print culture' under discussion in this literary history reveals that enlightenment racial 'science' was the primary vehicle through which the Haitian Revolution was interpreted by nineteenth-century Haitians, Europeans, and [url] Americans alike. Through its author's contention that the Haitian revolutionary wars were incessantly racialized by four constantly recurring tropesthe '.