Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865

by Marlene L. Daut

Book Overview

The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781381852
• ISBN13: 9781781381854
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 692 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.6"