Tag: Marlene Daut

  • Marlene Daut tackles the complicated intersection of history and literary legacy in her book “Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865” (Liverpool University Press, 2015). She not only describes the immediate political reaction to the Haitian Revolution, but traces how writers, novelists, playwrights, and scholars…

  • Through its author’s contention that the Haitian revolutionary wars were incessantly racialized by four constantly recurring racial tropes—the ‘monstrous hybrid’, the ‘tropical temptress’, the ‘tragic mulatto/a’, and the ‘mulatto legend of history’, Tropics of Haiti shows the ways in which the nineteenth-century tendency to understand Haiti’s revolution in primarily racial terms has affected present day…

  • Science of desire: Race and representations of the Haitian revolution in the Atlantic world, 1790-1865 University of Notre Dame July 2008 489 pages Publication Number: AAT 3436234 ISBN: 9781124353197 Marlene Leydy Daut, Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of…

  • “Sons of White Fathers”: Mulatto Vengeance and the Haitian Revolution in Victor Séjour’s “The Mulatto” Nineteenth-Century Literature Volume 65, Number 1 (June 2010) Pages 1–37 DOI: 10.1525/ncl.2010.65.1.1 Marlene L. Daut, Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California Although many literary critics have traced the genealogy of the tragic mulatto/a to…