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The article focuses on the challenges of uncovering the experiences of women in historical narratives, particularly within the context of revolutionary actions, and emphasizes the importance of revisiting history to highlight the contributions of both men and women. Additionally, it discusses the role of solidarity in the Haitian Revolution, illustrating how diverse socio-economic groups and conflicting interests shaped the pursuit of emancipation and freedom.

In his 1981 novel VALIS , science fiction writer Philip K. Dick proposed a vision of human existence in which superimposing the past, present and future reveals the Black Iron Prison, the materialization of oppression as the constant running through all eras of history. "The Empire never ended," says Dick. He might as well be speaking of the French Empire, whose current ubiquity demonstrates, if necessary, that in a time when political leaders in France and elsewhere aggressively promote sanitized official history, revisionist historical and archival work has immediate bearing on the political discussions of our day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines plans for a military reconquest of Haiti and uses them as a lens to explore broader connections between exile, diplomacy, violence, and geopolitics in the wake of Haiti’s independence. It retraces the networks and core elements shaping a plan involving Louis Marie Turreau de Garambouville, infamous veteran of theWar in the Vendée and then French ambassador to the United States, as well as refugees from Saint-Domingue and Native Americans. On the one hand, the plan attests to the interconnections of the French and Haitian Revolutions with regard to the circulation of concepts of irregular warfare. On the other hand, the links between a veteran of the Revolutionary Wars, “counterrevolutionary” exiles, and Native Americans serve as a window onto the complex and messy realities of diplomacy in the rapidly shifting and uncertain geopolitical setting of the Americas in the midst of the Age of Revolutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the discussion on field of International Relations (IR) increasingly acknowledging pervasive racism in institutional foundations. Topics include sidelining the Haitian revolution in the truncated debates about the abolition of slavery among other key themes; and showing the role in Anglophone IR's disciplinary attention or the longer-term impacts on decolonisation processes such as the mandate system.

The article examines the impact of the public memory of Toussaint Louverture in American radical abolitionism movement in the U.S. The author contends that public memory of Louverture influenced the American abolitionist movement throughout the nineteenth century, but more in the 1850s many abolitionists abandoned their hopes of the natural and peaceful demise of the institution of slavery. He asserts that the radical abolitionism movement of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in October 1859 reveals the iconic stature of Louverture among American abolitionists, illuminating an important trajectory.

Unlike German Idealism whose intellectual development from Kant to Schopenhauer, Hegel, Marx, Husserl, Heidegger, and the Frankfurt school produced the dialectic, phenomenology, and deontological ethics, Haitian Idealism produces phenomenology and an antidialectic process to history enframed by a reciprocal justice as its normative ethics, which is constantly being invoked by individual social actors to reconcile the noumenal (sacred--ideational) and phenomenal (profane--material) subjective world in order to maintain balance and harmony between the two so that the human actor can live freely and happy. In this work I argue that the originating moments of the Haitian Revolution and its call for total freedom and equality demonstrates the antidialectical and normative processes of Haitian idealism, while the creation of the phenomenal world of subjective experiences according to ones capacity, modality, developmental stage (both spiritual, physical, and mental), and spiritual court is symptomatic of the phenomenological development in Haitian Idealism and its afeminist epistemology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the relation of the figure of the zombie to the Haitian Revolution, the only successful slave revolution in the Atlantic World. While existing research often stresses the strong link between the zombie and the slave, this is not borne out by the contemporary discourse on the Haitian Revolution. Whereas horror and terror are associated with the zombie from its inception, it is only with the US occupation of Haiti (1915–1934) that US-American writers and directors invented the zombie of popular North Atlantic culture: a soulless slave without consciousness directed by a zombie master. As I argue, this amounts to a neo-colonialist act of symbolic re-enslavement of the self-emancipated Haitians. This time they are deprived not merely of their freedom as under the slave regime, but even of their consciousness. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Duchess de Duras heard about a little black girl who had, in 1788, been purchased as a house pet by the Governor of Senegal and given to his uncle, Monsieur de Beauvau. In 1820, the Duchess began writing a novel about the child (creating the first black female protagonist in European literature). Fifty anonymous copies of ‘Ourika’ were privately published in 1823, but the copies did not remain in the shadows for long. This essay examines how and why this black girl became such a potent representation, so popular that she inspired a brief but important period of hyper-visibility in Paris: ‘Ourika Mania.’ What interrogations of categories and spaces in early nineteenth-century Paris open up through our investigation of both the real and fictional ‘Ourikas?’ The dilemmas sparked by representations ofOurikareiterated that no matter how ‘proper’ the body, blackness precluded inclusion into definitions of Frenchness. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This essay explores the possibilities and limits of decentering Europe by examining the Haitian Revolution and contemporary invocations of its legacy among political theorists and historians. Recent accounts of the Haitian Revolution have celebrated its universalism as a realization of French revolutionary ideals. As I argue in the essay, this interpretation undermines the Haitian Revolution’s specificity as the first and only successful revolution against colonial slavery. I offer an alternative interpretation that begins from the specificity of colonial slavery and explores how Haitian revolutionaries inaugurated another universalism linked to individual and collective autonomy. Haitian revolutionaries offered a radical account of black citizenship and envisioned a world order in which both slavery and colonial rule would be transcended. This reinterpretation of the Haitian Revolution offers an alternative approach to what it might mean to decenter Europe—one that begins from the specific political problems subaltern actors encountered and illustrates how ideals are remade in diverse contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Haitian Revolution is not only one of the most important foundational moments in the emergence of the modern world, but also one of the most neglected within the social scientific literature. The following posts reflect on its omission from a new intellectual history of ‘equality’ and discuss how understandings of equality might be different if we took the Haitian Revolution seriously. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article assess the status and legacy of anticolonial Marxism in works of poet Aimé Césaire. It mentions that Césaire thought was inspired by writings of German philosopher Karl Marx and revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. It talks about Césaire's study of Louverture and the Haitian Revolution which addresses real limitations and failure of departmentalization to bring substantial autonomy to Martinique.

The article analyzes the arbitrary constructions of race and the performances of racial identities in the book "Paul Marchand, FMC," by Charles W. Chesnutt. It is noted that the in the book, Chesnutt provides historical remembrance of the black insurgents and refugees who were engendered by the Haitian Revolution. It also discusses issues mentioned in the book of Chesnutt from literary publication of several other scholars in that period covering the same issue like "Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic," by Ashli White.

A literary criticism of the novel "Blake," by Martin Delany is presented. Topics include the link between the Haitian Revolution and the extensive treatment of African or slave revolt in Western literature and art, the perpetuation of the narrative terms of the black avenger tradition in later traditions of black revolt in general, and the paralyzing status of the Haitian Revolution as the absolute referent of black revolt and autonomy.

A literary criticism of the book "The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution," by C. L. R. James. It says that the book integrates narrative, political, and philosophical elements, in specific dramatic quality. It mentions several topics including Haitian Revolution, racism, and anticolonialism.

The focus of this article is a critical look at the epistemological treatment of the Haitian Revolution by progressive 20th-century scholars such as C.L.R. James, Eugene Genovese, Robin Blackburn, David Geggus and Susan Buck-Morss. Their ideas and modes of thinking, knowing and constructing meaning, in respect of the cognitive and general epistemological basis of the Haitian Revolution, are examined in comparison to 19th-century black abolitionist thinkers such as Pompee Valentin Vastey, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown and James Theodore Holly. The essay concludes that the 20th-century progressive Haitian revolutionary scholars have too uncritically relied on the 18th and 19th-century occidental ontological and epistemological complex to construct narratives of the Haitian Revolution. By doing so, they denied or underestimated the cognitive agency of Africans in the making of the Haitian Revolution and thus presented a distorted picture of the Haitian Revolution in Haitian revolution studies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An essay is presented on negritude as a discourse in an East German literature. It highlights the use of negritude concept particularly the Haitian Revolution in the works of German-language authors Heiner Müller in his play "Der Auftrag" and Anna Seghers' "Das Licht auf dem Galgen." It offers the negritude dialectics in Aimé Césaire's poem "Cahier d'un retour au pays natal."

Neglected until recently, Hannah Arendt's exploration of the relationship between European imperialism and the rise of fascism, especially Nazism, offers fresh ways to study the rise of modern totalitarian regimes. Indeed, Paul Gilroy, among others, has underscored Arendt's importance for understanding contemporary race-thinking around the globe, while African Studies specialists still see Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism as one of the founding texts of their discipline. That said, David Scott, in his Conscripts of Modernity (2004), has criticised Arendt for failing to group the Haitian Revolution with the American and French Revolutions as landmarks in the emergence of political modernity. Once more, Scott suggests, the non-European world is slighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay is presented regarding the Caribbean genealogy examined in Aimé Césaire's essay "Toussaint Louverture: La Reévolution française et le problème colonial." It explores the content of the essay, in which Césaire relates departmentalization's efforts with the challenges towards the independence of Haiti. It mentions that in the essay, it is contended that the Haitian Revolution was not French Revolution's supplement.

The article explores the portrait of zombies in the Haitian culture and revolution. It reflects on the genealogy of slave brutality and dehumanization of Haitians to maximize industrial productivity and relates it to the book "Le Zombi du Grand Perou, ou la comtesse de Cocagne," by Pierre-Corneille Blessebois. It leads to the embodiment of slave and herbalist Marie Kingue until the legal publishing of "Code Rural" which acknowledges sorcery.

The article explores the international and intercultural connections of U.S. and Haiti during the U.S. occupation and World War II. The author reflects on the Haitian Revolution in the book of C. L. R. James' book "The Black Jacobins" which embodies a renewed interwar engagement and a model for popular revolution and unity. Furthermore, he relates on the political and cultural development of Haiti in the play of William Dubios titled "Haiti."

The article discusses the essay "Hegel and Haiti" by Susan Buck-Morss. It offers that the essay of Buck-Morss claims that the book "Phenomenology of Spirit," by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is modeled on the insurgency of enslaved Haiti that is a colony of France. The author shares that the essay ignited a debate among social scientists, historians and literary scholars, in which some scholars are declaring that the Haitian Revolution is the most democratic revolution.

An essay concerning Haitian literature is presented. It states that Haitian literature is a worldly literature due to its sophisitication, philosophical and political contents. It stresses the relative longevity of Haitian literature and the historical thought of Haiti writings from early postcolonial and Haitian Revolution. Moreover, it relates the littérature-monde manifesto published in 2007 to declare the new beginning of writings in French to all Haitians.

Presents an interview with novelist Myriam Chancy. When asked on freeing Haiti from oppressions in her writings, she says that her work cannot liberate Haiti from oppression but she aims to be part of a conversation on liberation. She mentions that her work focuses on the Haiti's multiple ethnic histories and Haitian revolution that ended slavery. She hopes that her novel "The Loneliness of Angels" be appreciated by the non-Haitians and to reflect themselves in the Haitian society.

This essay examines how Kleist's novella Die Verlobung in St. Domingo uses the Haitian Revolution as a means of demonstrating the potential unreliability of language. Upon first glance, this text seems to comment upon matters of political significance, such as race, revolution, and the character of justice. However, closer inspection reveals that these themes enable the text to reflect upon the nature of the sign, the act of reading, and the ethical demands of interpretation. Nevertheless, even this self-reflective model proves misleading in light of those passages that cast doubt upon the narrator's authority and the trustworthiness of certain details. By undermining the allegory that it appears to put forth, Die Verlobung in St. Domingo calls into question the authority of understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the role of colonial security in the abolition of the slave trade. The author comments that abolitionists promoted creolization and amelioration following slave revolts on plantations in British Caribbean colonies. James Long, a farmer in Jamaica, promoted creolization as a way to reduce costs of the sugar trade by eliminating the need to import slaves and reduce the possibility of insurrections, while cleric James Ramsay promoted reforms to slavery and colonial policies. The Haitian Revolution and other slave revolts led to changes in imperial policies and the recruitment of black solders to oppose insurrections. British politician George Canning proposed a motion regarding the settlement of Trinidad that promoted British imperialism and abolitionism.

To rethink human rights when they have become little more than hollow ideology in the hands not only of nation-states but of the UN as well requires a radical change in perspective. This article will thus look back to one of the key moments in the history of human emancipation – the Haitian Revolution – to ask whether it might hold, in its unfulfilled potential, implications for overcoming the contemporary impasse of human rights discourse. Unlike the earlier French and US revolutions, which extended putatively ‘universal’ rights only to limited categories of citizens (typically white, adult, male property-holders) Haiti was alone in the early-modern world in its implementation of an unqualified, immediate ban on human slavery. For all its daring originality, however, the Haitian intervention never lived up to its historical promise. Both internal political divisions and the international pressure of contemporary slave-holding states such as France and the United States consistently undermined the Haitian initiative throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the second part of this article, analysis of this historical process will lead me to consider the ways in which the works of Edwidge Danticat and Peter Hallward stand as contemporary interventions that remain faithful to this unfulfilled legacy of 1804. Repenser les droits humains au moment où ils ne sont plus que l'idéologie creuse des états de droit exige une transformation radicale de perspective. Cet article revient sur un des moments clés dans l'histoire de l'émancipation – la révolution haïtienne – et cela afin de voir si celle-ce peut imaginer des voies qui mèneraient par-delà les impasses actuelles. À la différence de ses prédécesseurs américains et français, qui octroyèrent des droits dits ‘universels’ uniquement à certaines catégories de citoyens (typiquement, des propriétaires blancs, adultes, et mâles) Haïti fut seul à procéder à une interdiction immédiate et non qualifiée de l'esclavage humain. En dépit de cette originalité, l'intervention haïtienne n'a jamais réalisé tout son potentiel historique. Des divisions internes, aussi bien qu'une pression internationale incessante des états esclavagistes de l'époque ont sapé l'initiative haïtienne à travers les 19e et 20e siècles. L'analyse de ce processus historique nous mènera dans la seconde partie de cet article à considérer la manière dont les ouvrages d'Edwidge Danticat et de Peter Hallward représentent des interventions contemporaines encore fidèles à cet héritage non concrétisé de 1804. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the use of dogs as torture and terror mechanism in the colonial networks during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It mentions that dogs were used to hunt black rebels and publicly consumed them as means of presenting white supremacy and domination, and served as a stark warning to the community during the period. It discusses several revolutions linking the employment of Cuban dogs against black combatants including the Haitian Revolution (1791-1803), the Second Maroon War in Jamaica (1795-1796), and the Second Seminole War in Territorial Florida (1835-1842). Additionally, it notes that the use of dogs as mechanism for torture has allegedly recurred to the public in the prison in Abu Ghraib after the U.S.'s conquest of Iraq.

The article discusses the diplomacy of Toussaint Louverture. It examines the roles of Louverture in the Haitian Revolution, on how he attained Haitian independence, as governor of Saint Domingue, and how he sought freedom for slaves. It notes that Louverture was a diplomat who was once a planter and a politician. It analyzes the diplomacy of Louverture based on his foreign policy as a political figure, on his willingness to accept policies at odds with his abolitionist rhetoric, and on his personal desires. It cites the implications created by his foreign policy and collaboration efforts with countries such as France, United States and Great Britain in creating alliances.

This essay presents Haitian Revolution. It offers a history of the academic scholarships and literature in Haiti. The author acknowledges that silence exists in the Haitian history, literature and society. Joel Dreyfuss has also called the country as the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere as the result of the silence.

The transnational turn in U.S. literary and cultural studies has led to a new consideration of the Atlantic world, particularly of the circumCaribbean, which has been the theatre for some of the most dramatic events of Atlantic history. Haiti, as a nexus for revolution, racial turmoil, and colonial and postcolonial struggle, has always been a lodestar for Southern and circumCaribbean writers. This paper briefly considers links between the U.S. South and the Caribbean, and then examines many examples of the ways in which the Haitian Revolution was reflected in both well-known and more obscure works of U.S. Southern and Caribbean literature, focusing on writers such as Séjour, Cable, Bontemps, Faulkner, Carpentier, Glissant, and James. The concluding section demonstrates how the contemporary Southern writer Madison Smartt Bell drew on this rich literary vein to create his magnificent trilogy on the Haitian Revolution, which begins with the text considered here, All Souls Rising. I also argue that this new configuration of region and cultural history has had and will have future consequences for the status of "durable" and "transient" notions of literary canons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the popular and partisan works of charismatic leader Toussaint Louverture. It states that Louverture joined the French side during the Haitian Revolution. This fact is supported on the evidence that his name was mentioned in British documents in October 1793 when the British found a Negroe commanding the place. Meanwhile, the events occurred during the development of Louverture and the Character of the English are also discussed in the article, including the Leclerc expedition.

The article explains how the participants of historical eventfulness failed to recognize and account historical events. It cites the case of the Haitian revolution where some people like historians forgotten or misrepresented the true account of event. It discusses some influences and motives of people to level such a historical event an indiscernible. In explaining the issue of indiscernible event, the article averred the theory of Alain Badiou which explores on the concept of event. The article also discusses cultural influence, ethnicity and racism which is believed to affect historical misrepresentation.

This article discusses newspaper publisher Louis Charles Roudanez in context of the influential community of Creoles of Color in 19th-century New Orleans, Louisiana. Noting their high degree of education, commitment to racial equality, and radicalism, it documents Louisiana's Napoleonic heritage. It shows the importance of the Haitian revolution of 1843 in creating the ferment and radicalism of this community, and the central place of Louis Charles Roudanez in that milieu.

This article discusses the launching of "L'Union," the first African American newspaper in the southern United States, in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1862. The founders included Louis Charles Roudanez, who proved to be an important figure in Louisiana Reconstruction. The article shows the influence of the Haitian revolution of 1843 on the U.S., convincing the emperor Napoleon to sell the Louisiana Territory to the U.S. The article traces Roudanez' support of African American voting rights.

This essay explores how the images, representations, and ideals of the Haitian Revolution and its leader, Toussaint Louverture, have been replicated in the history, music, art, and culture of African American people in the United States over the past two centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the relationship of vodou and political revolt during the Haitian Revolution as depicted in literature. In the book "All Souls' Rising," author Madison Smartt Bell writes about vodou beliefs regarding how dead slaves haunt the living. In the novel "The Kingdom of This World," author Alejo Carpentier depicts the slave Macandal using vodou beliefs to inspire the slave population to poison colonists.

This article explores the anticolonial and postcolonial thought of Haitian revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Dessalines, like Malcolm X, whom Cornel West calls a prophet of Black rage, is part of a black Atlantic radical tradition. Dessaline's secretary Louis-Flix Boisrond Tonnerre has often been viewed as the author of some of Dessalines' documents, including the Haitian Declaration of Independence, but I argue that Dessalines' voice remains distinctive and that he and his secretaries should be viewed as authorial teams. Dessalines' vision is syncretic, incorporating African diasporan views of the spiritual world and nature into his decisively anticolonial political ideology. These texts challenge the anglophone identity of the black Atlantic, and invite reconsideration of the diverse beginnings of the postcolonial. La pense anticoloniale et postcoloniale de Jean-Jacques Dessalines, chef de la Rvolution hatienne et premier empereur d'Hati, est considre ici vis--vis de la tradition de l'Atlantique noir formule par Gilroy, et surtout par rapport Malcolm X en tant que prophte colrique de l'Atlantique noir. Malgr le statut d'auteur de la dclaration de l'indpendance hatienne souvent confr au secrtaire Boisrond Tonnerre, la pluralit des documents produits par Dessalines en conjonction avec plusieurs secrtaires laissent entendre une voix distincte. L'idologie anticoloniale de Dessalines incorpore de faon syncrtique des traces d'interprtations africaines du monde spirituel et de la nature. Ces proclamations et manifestes mettent en question l'identit anglophone de l'Atlantique noir et nous invitent interroger les diverses commencements du postcolonial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines black abolitionist William Wells Brown's 1854 lecture "St. Domingo: Its Revolutions and its Patriots," juxtaposing Brown's history of the Haitian Revolution against those printed in publications such as the American "DeBow's Review" and the British "Anti-Slavery Reporter." The staggered, often contradictory nature of the multiple insurrections and uprisings occurring in Haiti complement Brown's own interest in fragmented narratives, and allow him to offer a model for black revolutionary activity contained not in a singular moment or figure, but instead spread across multiple revolutions and revolutionaries. Following Brown's logic opens up the possibility of developing an international revolutionary continuum deeply dependent upon black liberatory goals. A host of events could subsequently re-emerge as part of such a continuum, including but certainly not limited to the American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and an internationally inflected American Civil War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents an interview with Professor Gordon Rohleh. According to Rohlehr, writer C. L. R. James was able to see the Haitian Revolution as a powerful and very dynamic narrative. He explains the phase or expression "Afro-Saxon." He comments on the book "Beyond a Boundary" as a piece of sociology of sport or the sociology of art.

Tracing the history of a family across three generations, from enslavement in eighteenth-century West Africa through emancipation during the Haitian Revolution and subsequent resettlement in New Orleans, then France, then Belgium, can shed light on phenomena that are Atlantic in scope. A business letter written in 1899 by the cigar merchant Edouard Tinchant to General Máximo Gómez in Cuba frames an inquiry that opens out onto a family itinerary that spanned the long nineteenth century. Rosalie Vincent's achievement of freedom in the shadow of slavery in Saint-Domingue in 1793-1803 can be seen as linked to her grandson Edouard Tinchant's participation as a delegate in the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1867-68. Together, the experiences of the Vincent/Tinchant family illuminate an Atlantic and Caribbean rights-consciousness that crossed the usual boundaries of language and citizenship. Uncovering these experiences suggests the value of combining the close focus displayed in Sidney Mintz's Worker in the Cane with the Atlantic approach of his later Sweetness and Power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues for the importance of New Orleans within French and francophone studies, with a particular emphasis on a French Atlantic perspective. A historical overview discusses the role of New France, slavery, native Americans, Spain, immigration from Saint-Domingue, the Louisiana Purchase and the American Civil War in the formation of the city, and the rich and under-researched field of the city's nineteenth-century literary output in French is surveyed. Among the unique aspects of this history are the coherent African cultures exported to Louisiana due to the trafficking of slaves of mostly Bambara ethnicity, their crucial role in the material survival of the colony and the large presence – from intermarriage, manumission under Spanish rule and an influx following the Haitian revolution – of free people of colour who contributed to the formation of a Caribbean-type racial hierarchy that did not exist elsewhere in the United States. The article ends with an overview of French representations of the city, in particular A Cotton Office in New Orleans by Edgar Degas, and the city's place in world tourism, generating questions about the mobile and hybrid meanings attaching to ‘Frenchness’ in this context. L'article affirme l'importance de la Nouvelle-Orléans pour les études françaises et francophones en mettant l'accent sur une dimension ‘atlantique’ ou ‘atlantique-français’. Un tour d'horizon historique souligne les rôles de la Nouvelle France, de l'esclavage, des amérindiens, de l'Espagne, de l'immigration venant de Saint-Domingue, de la vente de la Louisiane et de la guerre de sécession dans la création de la ville, suivi d'un examen de la production littéraire francophone du dixneuvième siècle, injustement passé sous silence de nos jours. Les réalités uniques de la Nouvelle-Orléans ont leur origine dans divers facteurs tels que le recrutement d'esclaves de l'ethnie Bambara, ce qui a produit une culture africaine cohérente dans le territoire qui a aidé la jeune colonie à survivre physiquement; et la présence importante – et inhabituelle dans la société américaine de l'époque - de gens libres de couleur à cause de la fréquence de mariages et d'accouplements mixtes, des possibilités d'affranchissement sous le régime espagnol, et de l'arrivée de réfugiés de la révolution haïtienne. Finalement, une discussion de représentations françaises de la ville, en particulier le tableau Bureau de coton à la Nouvelle Orléans, mais aussi la ville comme destination touristique, permet de soulever des questions concernant les significations mobiles et hybrides de ‘la francité’ dans le contexte atlantique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Until recent years and with several notable exceptions, there appears to have been relatively little interest in Haiti among scholars in the field of francophone studies. The article takes this apparent absence as its starting point, and explores the possible ramifications of a renewed attention to Haitian history and culture for studies of francophone postcoloniality. Central to the discussion is a series of French and British representations of the Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture, dating from around the time of their subject's death in 1803, that have received only rare critical attention. The article suggests that any study of a ‘postcolonial’ Toussaint, evident in the work of authors such as Aimé Césaire, Bernard Dadié, René Depestre, Edouard Glissant and Jean Métellus, should take these earlier representations into account in order to elaborate a more complex account of francophone history and culture. The conclusion develops this reflection on the association of the colonial and postcolonial by suggesting the ways in which a renewed awareness of the implications of the Haitian Revolution might impact on postcolonial analyses of France itself. A quelques exceptions près, les chercheurs dans le domaine des études francophones se sont relativement peu intéressés jusqu'à une époque récente à Haïti. Adoptant cette absence d'attention en guise de point de départ, cet article met en relief les implications possibles pour l'étude du ‘fait postcolonial’ francophone d'un renouveau d'intérêt dans la littérature et la culture haïtiennes. L'étude est centrée sur une série de représentations françaises et britanniques du leader de la révolution à Saint-Domingue, Toussaint Louverture – représentations qui datent de l'époque de la mort de leur sujet en 1803, mais qui n'ont que rarement attiré une attention critique. Selon l'article, toute étude d'un Toussaint ‘postcolonial’ – chez des auteurs tels que Aimé Césaire, Bernard Dadié, René Depestre, Edouard Glissant et Jean Métellus – doit se rendre compte des représentations antérieures afin d'esquisser une version plus complexe des histoires et des cultures de l'espace francophone. Cette réflexion sur les rapports qui relient le colonial au post-colonial se développe dans la conclusion de l'article, où l'on démontre l'impact considérable de la révolution haïtienne sur une analyse postcoloniale de la France elle-même. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers a look at the Haitian Revolution of 1843 and considers several historical and biographical narratives from British, French, Haitian, and American authors, including abolitionists, politicians, or pro-slavery zealots. The accounts address the concepts of race, rebellion, and Gothic literature in the revolution.

Discusses the struggle for freedom and full citizenship in the Caribbean. Background on the Haitian Revolution which is recognized as the third pillar in the making of modern citizenship and freedom; Factors that affect the effort of Caribbean people to fight for universal citizenship; Manifestations of the differential valuing of white and black bodies in the Caribbean; Lessons being taught by the Caribbean history.

Discusses the ideological strains of radical nationalism in Haiti which emerged during the 1946 left-student and black nationalistic movement to overthrow the U.S.-supported dictatorship of President Élie Lescot. Significant role played by the Haitian Revolution in the political rhetoric of various radicals; Details of the revolt led by young radicals in the country; Manifestations of the immediate success of the radical movement in deposing Lescot.

Presents a historical analysis of the Haitian revolution and its impact on the early 19th century Jamaican slave society. Factor which motivated the hysteria and repression of Jamaican planters towards their enslaved Africans; Critical role played by the Haitian revolution in the discourse between Jamaica and the metropolis regarding the efficiency of slave labor and the need for amelioration; Summary of the early 19th century slave rebellions in Jamaica.

Discusses C.L.R. James's chronicle of the history of the Haitian revolution of 1843 in his book 'The Black Jacobins.' Contrast between the behavior of the Haitian slaves during the working day and their conversations around the supper fire; Conscious organization of the Caribbean nation; Processes of communication that took place in the midst of conflicts.

Highlights the international scholarly conference about the Haitian Revolution after 200 years in Rhode Island. Organization by the John Carter Brown Library with the help of a committee of scholars; Centers of slave trade in the 18th century; Contention between races.

Highlights the celebration of the Bicentennial of the Haitian Revolution by the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington D.C. Preparations for the event; Origin of the idea for the Festival program with the members of the U.S. Haitian community in solidarity with the people of Haiti; Promotion of the understanding and continuity of contemporary grassroots cultures in the U.S. and abroad by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.