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The article reports on the works of Haitian academic and anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot in Caribbean studies. Topics discussed include the discipline of anthropology in his works, the epilogue to the book "Silencing the Past," and the Caribbean theories of creolization. Other topics include works on the idea of revolutionary Saint Domingue and the culture in Haiti.

This article explores the idea of Haitian cultural exceptionalism and its embodiment in Haitian literature. The article suggests that postrevolutionary writers were compelled to depict Haitian displacement and dislocation in literature. Other topics include peasant literature, the author Jacques Roumain, Haitian fiction, and cultural identity.

This article discusses the influence of the Haitian Revolution on theater. Implications of the revolution for the concept of human rights; Symbolic presence of the country in the Caribbean literature; Information on Édouard Glissant's play "Monsieur Toussaint," which depicts the life of revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture.

This article discusses several Haitian authors about the impact of the Haitian Revolution on their work. Views of Dany Laferrière on the influence of the revolution on his study of Haitian literature and on his sensibility as a writer; Poetic aspect of Haitian history according to Edwidge Danticat; Implications of the diaspora of writers for the country's literature according to Louis-Philippe Dalembert.

This essay examines the question of black internationalism in the last work written by Anténor Firmin, The Letters from St. Thomas. These letters, written in exile on the island of St. Thomas, reveal Firmin's thoughts on the question of racial difference, national identity and Haiti's hemispheric role. Because of the tendency to see nineteenth-century Haitian intellectuals as alienated and unenlightened, the complexity of Firmin's thought, generally dismissed as universalist and cosmopolitan, has been overlooked. In calling into question fetishistic and exclusivist notions of race and territory that were very popular at the time, Firmin makes the case for crosscultural negotiations and post-territorial theorizing that anticipate the ideas of later Caribbean thinkers such as Edouard Glissant and Frantz Fanon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]