Chris Bongie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1087350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Bongie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Bongie |
| SIGNATURE | BONGIE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Duncan Faherty, The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters: Incipient Fevers
In this vital contribution to hemispheric American Studies, Duncan Faherty makes a case for “redressing a crucial blind spot in American literary history,” namely, the years 1800-1820, “an era so often imagined as a fallow period of cultural production” (3). “From its earliest formations,” Faherty asserts, “American literary history has declared the first two decades of the nineteenth century devoid of cultural merit; more bluntly, this era remai…
Zoïle’s pilgrimage: Abbé Ouvière’s Journal du Port-au-Prince (1791) and the struggle for free colored rights in revolutionary Saint-Domingue
The Journal du Port-au-Prince was first published in Saint-Domingue on 1 September 1791, days after an insurrection of the gens de couleur libres (free people of color) was launched in the colony’s West Province. This hitherto unexamined newspaper was edited by Félix Pascalis Ouvière, a recently arrived native of Aix-en-Provence who, by the time it ceased publication on 20 November, had earned a reputation as among the most prominent white advoca…
A flexible quill: Abbé de Lahaye’s role in late colonial Saint-Domingue, 1787–1791 – the legend and the life
Writing in 1802 about the outbreak of the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, planter Félix Carteau identified “the execrable Abbé de Lahaye, curé of Dondon, the most ardent apostle of freedom for the Blacks,” as one of the “known fomenters of their revolt.” This portrait of the Abbé de Lahaye as a committed abolitionist who played a generative role in the Haitian Revolution exemplifies the many passing references to him in …
Victor Hugo and the Melancholy Novel: Reading the Haitian Revolution in Bug-Jargal
In the two decades following the Haitian Declaration of Independence in 1804, a wide array of French writers from across the political spectrum returned, with obsessive frequency, to the subject of Saint-Domingue/Haiti in an attempt to grapple with the effects of 'traumatic' loss through discursive revisitings of the forever lost imperial object. Reflecting on the (largely disavowed) centrality of Haiti to an understanding of Romantic-era French …
The Cry of History: Juste Chanlatte and the Unsettling (Presence) of Race in Early Haitian Literature
The Cry of History:Juste Chanlatte and the Unsettling (Presence) of Race in Early Haitian Literature Chris Bongie (bio) I. 1804–1811. Phoenix Rising: Remembering Juste Chanlatte Otherwise One of the first texts published in independent Haiti, Juste Chanlatte’s six-page pamphlet from early 1804 entitled À mes concitoyens begins with its author looking back on “the great event that has just transpired in this country”: the recent expulsion of the F…
Haiti, History, and the Law: Colin Dayan's Fables of Conversion
This essay provides an overview of Colin Dayan's work that attends, specifically, to her representations of slave law in Haiti, History, and the Gods and The Law Is a White Dog. It takes as its point of departure Dayan's indictment in the final chapter of Haiti, History, and the Gods of the infamous Code Noir and her equally blistering account of a well-known instance of settler violence, that of the planter Nicolas Lejeune, whose prosecution for…
Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France
Semiologies of Travel: From Gautier to Baudrillard (review)
David Scott. Semiologies of Travel: From Gautier to Baudrillard. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. ix + 235 pp. ISBN 0-521-83853-3, $75.00. Scott begins his account of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French travel literature by pointing out how "the quest for the new and the different is paradoxically accompanied by a nostalgia for an integrated semiotic system" (2). In support of his point that, after the nineteenth century, this nostalgia has be…
Monotonies of History: "Baron de Vastey and the Mulatto Legend of Derek Walcott's "Haitian Trilogy
Chris Bongie, "Monotonies of History": Baron de Vastey and the Mulatto Legend of Derek Walcott's "Haitian Trilogy", Yale French Studies, No. 107, The Haiti Issue: 1804 and Nineteenth-Century French Studies (2005), pp. 70-107
Exiles on Main Stream: Valuing the Popularity of Postcolonial Literature
Exiles on Main Stream: Valuing the Popularity of Postcolonial Literature Chris Bongie (bio) Abstract This essay explores the problematic (lack of a) relation between postcolonial and cultural studies. It argues that the commitment to mass popular culture characteristic of so much work in cultural studies is one that is largely absent from postcolonial literary studies. If Jamaica Kincaid has nothing but contempt for the media star Roseanne (as re…
C'est du papier ou de l'Histoire en marche: The revolutionary compromises of a Martiniquanhomme de couleurCyrille‐Charles‐Auguste Bissette
Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature
A Street Named Bissette: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Cent-Cinquantenaire of the Abolition of Slavery in Martinique (1848-1998)
Research Article| January 01 2001 A Street Named Bissette: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Cent-Cinquantenaire of the Abolition of Slavery in Martinique (1848–1998) Chris Bongie Chris Bongie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2001) 100 (1): 215–257. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-100-1-215 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Chris Bongie; …
Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature
What is the most pressing question facing post-colonial writers today? For Chris Bongie it is that of knowing: "Who can speak for and/or as the Other?" (287). This question might be formulated other ways, and Bongie is the first to admit how problematic such terms as "Other" can be, especially when used in locutions about speaking as the Other. But by placing this question, with all the problems that it implies, at the heart of his book, Bongie m…
Reading the archipelago
First paragraph]A History of Literature in the Caribbean, Volume 3: Cross-Cultural Studies. JAMES A. ARNOLD (ed.). Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1997. xvii + 399 pp. (Cloth US$ 120.00)The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context. J. MICHAEL DASH. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998. xii + 197 pp. (Cloth US$ 42.50, Paper US$ 18.50)In his most recent theoretical work, Traite du Tout-Monde, Edouard Glissant stresses…
Islands and exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature
From Cannibals to Radicals: Figures and Limits of Exoticism
Francophone conjunctures
First paragraph]Decolonizing the Text: Glissantian Readings in Caribbean and African-American Literatures. DEBRA L. ANDERSON. New York: Peter Lang, 1995. 118 pp. (Cloth US$46.95)L'Eau: Source d'une ecriture dans les litteratures feminines francophones. YOLANDE HELM (ed.). New York: Peter Lang, 1995. x + 295 pp. (Cloth US$ 65.95)Postcolonial Subjects: Francophone Women Writers. MARY JEAN GREEN, KAREN GOULD, MICHELINE RICE-MAXIMIN, KEITH L. WALKER …
Resisting Memories: The Creole Identities of Lafcadio Hearn and Edouard Glissant
THE APPARENT SWING AWAY FROM AN ESSENTIALIST IDENTITY politics in recent discussions of colonial and postcolonial identity, and toward a vision of cultural hybridity destabilizes any and all such identitarian markers, has resulted in a heightened interest in that process of mutation and adaptation we call creolization, as Paul Gilroy puts it (Small Acts, 209). This is a process the Caribbean poet Kamau Brathwaite, following in the footsteps of Cu…
The (Un)Exploded Volcano: Creolization and Intertextuality in the Novels of Daniel Maximin
In The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770-1820, Barbadian poet and historian Kamau Brathwaite defines creolization as way of seeing Jamaican [and, by extension, Caribbean] society, not in terms of white and black, master and slave, in separate nuclear units, but as contributory parts of a (307). Notwithstanding tremendous injustices that characterized white-black, master-slave relationships in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-cent…
Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism and the Fin de Siecle
A flexible quill: Abbé de Lahaye’s role in late colonial Saint-Domingue, 1787–1791 – the legend and the life
Writing in 1802 about the outbreak of the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, planter Félix Carteau identified “the execrable Abbé de Lahaye, curé of Dondon, the most ardent apostle of freedom for the Blacks,” as one of the “known fomenters of their revolt.” This portrait of the Abbé de Lahaye as a committed abolitionist who played a generative role in the Haitian Revolution exemplifies the many passing references to him in …
The (Un)Exploded Volcano: Creolization and Intertextuality in the Novels of Daniel Maximin
In The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770-1820, Barbadian poet and historian Kamau Brathwaite defines creolization as way of seeing Jamaican [and, by extension, Caribbean] society, not in terms of white and black, master and slave, in separate nuclear units, but as contributory parts of a (307). Notwithstanding tremendous injustices that characterized white-black, master-slave relationships in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-cent…
C'est du papier ou de l'Histoire en marche: The revolutionary compromises of a Martiniquanhomme de couleurCyrille‐Charles‐Auguste Bissette
A Street Named Bissette: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Cent-Cinquantenaire of the Abolition of Slavery in Martinique (1848-1998)
Research Article| January 01 2001 A Street Named Bissette: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Cent-Cinquantenaire of the Abolition of Slavery in Martinique (1848–1998) Chris Bongie Chris Bongie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2001) 100 (1): 215–257. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-100-1-215 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Chris Bongie; …
Resisting Memories: The Creole Identities of Lafcadio Hearn and Edouard Glissant
THE APPARENT SWING AWAY FROM AN ESSENTIALIST IDENTITY politics in recent discussions of colonial and postcolonial identity, and toward a vision of cultural hybridity destabilizes any and all such identitarian markers, has resulted in a heightened interest in that process of mutation and adaptation we call creolization, as Paul Gilroy puts it (Small Acts, 209). This is a process the Caribbean poet Kamau Brathwaite, following in the footsteps of Cu…
Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism and the Fin de Siecle
Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism and the Fin de Siecle
The (Un)Exploded Volcano: Creolization and Intertextuality in the Novels of Daniel Maximin
In The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770-1820, Barbadian poet and historian Kamau Brathwaite defines creolization as way of seeing Jamaican [and, by extension, Caribbean] society, not in terms of white and black, master and slave, in separate nuclear units, but as contributory parts of a (307). Notwithstanding tremendous injustices that characterized white-black, master-slave relationships in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-cent…
From Cannibals to Radicals: Figures and Limits of Exoticism
Francophone conjunctures
First paragraph]Decolonizing the Text: Glissantian Readings in Caribbean and African-American Literatures. DEBRA L. ANDERSON. New York: Peter Lang, 1995. 118 pp. (Cloth US$46.95)L'Eau: Source d'une ecriture dans les litteratures feminines francophones. YOLANDE HELM (ed.). New York: Peter Lang, 1995. x + 295 pp. (Cloth US$ 65.95)Postcolonial Subjects: Francophone Women Writers. MARY JEAN GREEN, KAREN GOULD, MICHELINE RICE-MAXIMIN, KEITH L. WALKER …
Resisting Memories: The Creole Identities of Lafcadio Hearn and Edouard Glissant
THE APPARENT SWING AWAY FROM AN ESSENTIALIST IDENTITY politics in recent discussions of colonial and postcolonial identity, and toward a vision of cultural hybridity destabilizes any and all such identitarian markers, has resulted in a heightened interest in that process of mutation and adaptation we call creolization, as Paul Gilroy puts it (Small Acts, 209). This is a process the Caribbean poet Kamau Brathwaite, following in the footsteps of Cu…
Islands and exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature
Reading the archipelago
First paragraph]A History of Literature in the Caribbean, Volume 3: Cross-Cultural Studies. JAMES A. ARNOLD (ed.). Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1997. xvii + 399 pp. (Cloth US$ 120.00)The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context. J. MICHAEL DASH. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998. xii + 197 pp. (Cloth US$ 42.50, Paper US$ 18.50)In his most recent theoretical work, Traite du Tout-Monde, Edouard Glissant stresses…
Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature
What is the most pressing question facing post-colonial writers today? For Chris Bongie it is that of knowing: "Who can speak for and/or as the Other?" (287). This question might be formulated other ways, and Bongie is the first to admit how problematic such terms as "Other" can be, especially when used in locutions about speaking as the Other. But by placing this question, with all the problems that it implies, at the heart of his book, Bongie m…
Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature
A Street Named Bissette: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Cent-Cinquantenaire of the Abolition of Slavery in Martinique (1848-1998)
Research Article| January 01 2001 A Street Named Bissette: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Cent-Cinquantenaire of the Abolition of Slavery in Martinique (1848–1998) Chris Bongie Chris Bongie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2001) 100 (1): 215–257. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-100-1-215 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Chris Bongie; …
C'est du papier ou de l'Histoire en marche: The revolutionary compromises of a Martiniquanhomme de couleurCyrille‐Charles‐Auguste Bissette
Exiles on Main Stream: Valuing the Popularity of Postcolonial Literature
Exiles on Main Stream: Valuing the Popularity of Postcolonial Literature Chris Bongie (bio) Abstract This essay explores the problematic (lack of a) relation between postcolonial and cultural studies. It argues that the commitment to mass popular culture characteristic of so much work in cultural studies is one that is largely absent from postcolonial literary studies. If Jamaica Kincaid has nothing but contempt for the media star Roseanne (as re…
Semiologies of Travel: From Gautier to Baudrillard (review)
David Scott. Semiologies of Travel: From Gautier to Baudrillard. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. ix + 235 pp. ISBN 0-521-83853-3, $75.00. Scott begins his account of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French travel literature by pointing out how "the quest for the new and the different is paradoxically accompanied by a nostalgia for an integrated semiotic system" (2). In support of his point that, after the nineteenth century, this nostalgia has be…
Monotonies of History: "Baron de Vastey and the Mulatto Legend of Derek Walcott's "Haitian Trilogy
Chris Bongie, "Monotonies of History": Baron de Vastey and the Mulatto Legend of Derek Walcott's "Haitian Trilogy", Yale French Studies, No. 107, The Haiti Issue: 1804 and Nineteenth-Century French Studies (2005), pp. 70-107
Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France
Haiti, History, and the Law: Colin Dayan's Fables of Conversion
This essay provides an overview of Colin Dayan's work that attends, specifically, to her representations of slave law in Haiti, History, and the Gods and The Law Is a White Dog. It takes as its point of departure Dayan's indictment in the final chapter of Haiti, History, and the Gods of the infamous Code Noir and her equally blistering account of a well-known instance of settler violence, that of the planter Nicolas Lejeune, whose prosecution for…
The Cry of History: Juste Chanlatte and the Unsettling (Presence) of Race in Early Haitian Literature
The Cry of History:Juste Chanlatte and the Unsettling (Presence) of Race in Early Haitian Literature Chris Bongie (bio) I. 1804–1811. Phoenix Rising: Remembering Juste Chanlatte Otherwise One of the first texts published in independent Haiti, Juste Chanlatte’s six-page pamphlet from early 1804 entitled À mes concitoyens begins with its author looking back on “the great event that has just transpired in this country”: the recent expulsion of the F…
A flexible quill: Abbé de Lahaye’s role in late colonial Saint-Domingue, 1787–1791 – the legend and the life
Writing in 1802 about the outbreak of the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, planter Félix Carteau identified “the execrable Abbé de Lahaye, curé of Dondon, the most ardent apostle of freedom for the Blacks,” as one of the “known fomenters of their revolt.” This portrait of the Abbé de Lahaye as a committed abolitionist who played a generative role in the Haitian Revolution exemplifies the many passing references to him in …
Victor Hugo and the Melancholy Novel: Reading the Haitian Revolution in Bug-Jargal
In the two decades following the Haitian Declaration of Independence in 1804, a wide array of French writers from across the political spectrum returned, with obsessive frequency, to the subject of Saint-Domingue/Haiti in an attempt to grapple with the effects of 'traumatic' loss through discursive revisitings of the forever lost imperial object. Reflecting on the (largely disavowed) centrality of Haiti to an understanding of Romantic-era French …
Zoïle’s pilgrimage: Abbé Ouvière’s Journal du Port-au-Prince (1791) and the struggle for free colored rights in revolutionary Saint-Domingue
The Journal du Port-au-Prince was first published in Saint-Domingue on 1 September 1791, days after an insurrection of the gens de couleur libres (free people of color) was launched in the colony’s West Province. This hitherto unexamined newspaper was edited by Félix Pascalis Ouvière, a recently arrived native of Aix-en-Provence who, by the time it ceased publication on 20 November, had earned a reputation as among the most prominent white advoca…
Duncan Faherty, The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters: Incipient Fevers
In this vital contribution to hemispheric American Studies, Duncan Faherty makes a case for “redressing a crucial blind spot in American literary history,” namely, the years 1800-1820, “an era so often imagined as a fallow period of cultural production” (3). “From its earliest formations,” Faherty asserts, “American literary history has declared the first two decades of the nineteenth century devoid of cultural merit; more bluntly, this era remai…
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