Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution

by Sibylle Fischer

Series:A John Hope Franklin Center Book (2004)

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A study of the ways that knowledge of the slave revolt in Haiti was denied/repressed/disavowed within the network of slave-owning states and plantation societies of the New World, and the effects and meaning of this disavowal.

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purpleiris 1,238 reviews

This was a fascinating read. I think the sections on Cuban and Dominican literature were stronger than the one on Haiti and I would have liked to see some analysis of Haitian literature and culture, rather than just a reading of early Haitian constitutions, but the overall argument was very compelling.

Apr 27, 2013 (Edited)

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