Haiti's Paper War (eBook)

Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954

Chelsea Stieber (Autor)

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2020
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-0217-3 (ISBN)

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2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineTurns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nationPicking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti s post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic. What transpired was a war of swords and of pens, waged in newspapers and periodicals, in literature, broadsheets, and fliers. In her analysis of Haitian writing that followed independence, Stieber composes a new literary history of Haiti, that challenges our interpretations of both freedom struggles and the postcolonial. By examining internal dissent during the revolution, Stieber reveals that the very concept of freedom was itself hotly contested in the public sphere, and it was this inherent tension that became the central battleground for the guerre de plume the paper war that vied to shape public sentiment and the very idea of Haiti.Stieber s reading of post-independence Haitian writing reveals key insights into the nature of literature, its relation to freedom and politics, and how fraught and politically loaded the concepts of literature and civilization really are. The competing ideas of liberte, writing, and civilization at work within postcolonial Haiti have consequences for the way we think about Haiti s role as an idea and a discursive interlocutor in the elaboration of black radicalism and black Atlantic, anticolonial, and decolonial thought. In so doing, Stieber reorders our previously homogeneous view of Haiti, teasing out warring conceptions of the new nation that continued to play out deep into the twentieth century.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.8.2020
• Reihe/Serie: America and the Long 19th Century
• Reihe/Serie: America and the Long 19th Century
• Zusatzinfo: 11 hts
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1789 • Alexandre Pétion • Allegory • authoritarianism • black radicalism • Caribbean intellectuals • Caricature • Centennial • Civilization • Civil War • Criticism • Cultural Nationalism • Dessalinean critique • Dominican Republic • Empire • Fascism • Faustin Soulouque • François Duvalier • Francophone Literature • Haitian independence • Haitian unification • Henry Christophe • imperialism • indigénisme • JEAN-JACQUES DESSALINES • Jean-Pierre Boyer • liberal Enlightenment • Liberalism • Liberal Party • Liberty • literary magazine • Literature • Louis Joseph Janvier • Maurrassisme • National Party • Pamphlet • paper war • peasant novel • performativity • Postcolonial • post-independence • post-independence Haiti • Print Culture • refutation • Republicanism • Revolution • Revue • US occupation • Western episteme • western modernity
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-0217-4 / 1479802174
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-0217-3 / 9781479802173