The Haitian revolution in the literary imagination [electronic resource] : radical horizons, conservative constraints / Philip Kaisary.
Material type: TextSeries: New World studies | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: London : University of Virginia Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780813935485
- 0813935482
- 809/.933587294 23
- PN849.C3 K35 2014
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.
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