TY - BOOK AU - Kaisary,Philip ED - Project Muse. TI - The Haitian revolution in the literary imagination: radical horizons, conservative constraints T2 - New World studies SN - 9780813935485 AV - PN849.C3 K35 2014 U1 - 809/.933587294 23 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - University of Virginia Press KW - Literature and history KW - Haiti KW - History KW - Revolution, 1791-1804 KW - Influence KW - Caribbean literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - In literature KW - Literature and the revolution KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Pt. 1. Radical recuperations: universalism and transformation -- Radical universalism: the Haitian revolution, Aime Cesaire, and C.L.R. James -- Langston Hughes: Harlem and Haiti -- Return to negritude: the Haitian revolution and Rene depestre's Un arc-en-ciel pour l'occident chretien -- The Haitian revolution and radical visual politics: Jacob Lawrence, Kimathi Donkor, and the cultures of philately -- Pt. 2. Conservative visions: pessimism, seduction, and fantasy -- Edouard Glissant's Monsieur Toussaint: conservatism hidden in La relation -- Ideological frailty and the marvelous in Alejo Carpentier's El reino de este mundo -- The aesthetics of cyclical pessimism: Derek Walcott's Haitian trilogy -- Fantasizing the Haitian revolution with Madison Smartt Bell -- Conclusion UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813935485/ ER -