{"id":39300,"date":"2015-12-22T04:08:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T04:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39300"},"modified":"2019-06-01T13:10:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T13:10:30","slug":"tropics-of-haiti-race-and-the-literary-history-of-the-haitian-revolution-in-the-atlantic-world-1789-1865","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39300","title":{"rendered":"Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Liverpool University Press<\/a>
\nMay 2015
\n848 pages
\n234 x 156mm
\nHardback ISBN: 9781781381847
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781781381854<\/p>\n

Marlene L. Daut<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies
\nClaremont Graduate University, Claremont, California<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804)<\/a> was an event of monumental world-historical significance, and here, in the first systematic literary history of those events, Haiti\u2019s<\/a> war of independence is examined through the eyes of its actual and imagined participants, observers, survivors, and cultural descendants. The \u2018transatlantic print culture of the Haitian Revolution\u2019 that this literary history shows was created by novelists, poets, dramatists, memoirists, biographers, historians, journalists, and eye-witness observers, revealing enlightenment racial \u2018science\u2019 as the primary vehicle through which the Haitian Revolution was interpreted, historicized, memorialized, and fictionalized by nineteenth-century Haitians, Europeans, and U.S. Americans alike.<\/p>\n

Through its author\u2019s contention that the Haitian revolutionary wars were incessantly racialized by four constantly recurring racial tropes\u2014the \u2018monstrous hybrid\u2019, the \u2018tropical temptress\u2019, the \u2018tragic mulatto\/a<\/a>\u2019, and the \u2018mulatto legend of history\u2019, Tropics of Haiti<\/em> shows the ways in which the nineteenth-century tendency to understand Haiti\u2019s revolution in primarily racial terms has affected present day demonizations of Haiti and Haitians. In the end, this new archive of Haitian revolutionary writing, much of which has until now remained unknown to the contemporary reading public, invites us to examine how nineteenth-century attempts to paint Haitian independence as the result of a racial revolution coincides with present-day desires to render insignificant and \u2018unthinkable\u2019 the second independent republic of the New World.<\/p>\n

CONTENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n