Philip Kaisary
Biographic Data
| ID | 361397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Kaisary |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaisary |
| SIGNATURE | KAISARY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3578-8630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Law and Black Agency in Memories of Abolition: Human Rights and Slavery Films
The Haitian Revolution and Socio-economic Rights
This chapter traces the socio-economic dimensions of rights development in the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). The author argues that, in the context of this revolution, which began with a revolt against slavery but became an anti-colonial struggle for independence, the conceptual separation of civil and political rights, on the one hand, and socio-economic rights, on the other, makes little sense. The story of the birth of the world’s first blac…
Haiti, principle of hope: Parallels and connections in the works of C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, Aimé Césaire, and Édouard Glissant
This article focuses on the interactions, connections and parallels in literary texts addressing Haiti by Anglophone Caribbean writers C.L.R. James and Derek Walcott, and Francophone writers Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant. Primary materials considered include: C.L.R. James’ 1934 playscript, Toussaint Louverture, which had been lost for many years until recently; two plays by Derek Walcott, Henri Christophe and Drums and Colours; Aimé Césaire’s…
Toussaint Louverture: The story of the only succesful slave revolt in history
Lost for many years, the publication of C.L.R. James’ 1934 play script, Toussaint Louverture, in a superlative scholarly edition, is cause for celebration. Discovered in 2005 by Christian Hogsbjerg
The Black Jacobins reader
The Slave Narrative and Filmic Aesthetics: Steve McQueen, Solomon Northup, and Colonial Violence
In recent years, the cultural and political memory of slavery has occupied an unusual prominence in public comment and debate. Various explanations for this can be found in the reemergence of calls for reparations, renewed scholarly attention to the relationship between slavery and capitalism, and several anniversaries commemorating the abolition of slavery in the Atlantic world.1 Concomitant with this heightened awareness, there has been a drama…
From freedom’s sun some glimmering rays are shed that cheer the gloomy realms’: Dessalines at Dartmouth, 1804
Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the Haitian Revolution’s two most important leaders, have long been considered each others’ foils. Whereas Dessalines has been subjected to vicious, racist caricature, Toussaint has tended to elicit more sympathetic portrayals. This paper examines a rare, recently rediscovered exception to this dichotomy. Stephen Farley and Avery Williams, two Dartmouth College seniors, co-wrote and performed a sh…
On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, written by Maria Cristina Fumagalli
Long a site of outrages, the Haitian-Dominican border is once again drawing international attention.Fleeing threats of deportation and violence in the Dominican Republic, some 3,000 Haitian-Dominican refugees have been abandoned to their fate, like so much human refuse, in squalid conditions and legal limbo in the southwest of Hispaniola's borderland.The catalyst was the decision of the Dominican Republic's Constitutional Court in September 2013 …
Hercules, the Hydra, and the 1801 Constitution of Toussaint Louverture
This article considers the 1801 Constitution of Saint-Domingue, which was promulgated by Toussaint Louverture. It argues that this complex and contradictory constitution can be productively considered in the light of Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker's canonical work of Atlantic history, The Many-Headed Hydra. By this method, the presence of both radical emancipatory and anti-democratic currents within the Haitian Revolution is revealed. While t…
The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints
The Haitian Revolution has been studied extensively for its historical and political significance. The work of C. L. R. James (The Black Jacobins) and Michel-Rolph Trouillot (Silencing the Past) are just a few of the influential texts that have shaped Haitian revolutionary studies, turning scholarly attention to the revolution’s enduring political importance for anticolonial thought and action and to how history, writ large, is studied and told. …
Human Rights and Radical Universalism: Aimé Césaire's and CLR James's Representations of the Haitian Revolution
The article examines the way in which Aime Cesaire's book-length poem, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (?Notebook of a Return to My Native Land), the founding text of the negritude movement, and C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins recuperate the Haitian Revolution, and in particular the character of Toussaint Louverture, in order to interrogate the absence of the consideration of the Haitian Revolution in human rights discourse and historiography.…
Hercules, the Hydra, and the 1801 Constitution of Toussaint Louverture
This article considers the 1801 Constitution of Saint-Domingue, which was promulgated by Toussaint Louverture. It argues that this complex and contradictory constitution can be productively considered in the light of Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker's canonical work of Atlantic history, The Many-Headed Hydra. By this method, the presence of both radical emancipatory and anti-democratic currents within the Haitian Revolution is revealed. While t…
Human Rights and Radical Universalism: Aimé Césaire's and CLR James's Representations of the Haitian Revolution
The article examines the way in which Aime Cesaire's book-length poem, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (?Notebook of a Return to My Native Land), the founding text of the negritude movement, and C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins recuperate the Haitian Revolution, and in particular the character of Toussaint Louverture, in order to interrogate the absence of the consideration of the Haitian Revolution in human rights discourse and historiography.…
Haiti, principle of hope: Parallels and connections in the works of C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, Aimé Césaire, and Édouard Glissant
This article focuses on the interactions, connections and parallels in literary texts addressing Haiti by Anglophone Caribbean writers C.L.R. James and Derek Walcott, and Francophone writers Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant. Primary materials considered include: C.L.R. James’ 1934 playscript, Toussaint Louverture, which had been lost for many years until recently; two plays by Derek Walcott, Henri Christophe and Drums and Colours; Aimé Césaire’s…
Human Rights and Radical Universalism: Aimé Césaire's and CLR James's Representations of the Haitian Revolution
The article examines the way in which Aime Cesaire's book-length poem, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (?Notebook of a Return to My Native Land), the founding text of the negritude movement, and C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins recuperate the Haitian Revolution, and in particular the character of Toussaint Louverture, in order to interrogate the absence of the consideration of the Haitian Revolution in human rights discourse and historiography.…
The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints
The Haitian Revolution has been studied extensively for its historical and political significance. The work of C. L. R. James (The Black Jacobins) and Michel-Rolph Trouillot (Silencing the Past) are just a few of the influential texts that have shaped Haitian revolutionary studies, turning scholarly attention to the revolution’s enduring political importance for anticolonial thought and action and to how history, writ large, is studied and told. …
Hercules, the Hydra, and the 1801 Constitution of Toussaint Louverture
This article considers the 1801 Constitution of Saint-Domingue, which was promulgated by Toussaint Louverture. It argues that this complex and contradictory constitution can be productively considered in the light of Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker's canonical work of Atlantic history, The Many-Headed Hydra. By this method, the presence of both radical emancipatory and anti-democratic currents within the Haitian Revolution is revealed. While t…
The Slave Narrative and Filmic Aesthetics: Steve McQueen, Solomon Northup, and Colonial Violence
In recent years, the cultural and political memory of slavery has occupied an unusual prominence in public comment and debate. Various explanations for this can be found in the reemergence of calls for reparations, renewed scholarly attention to the relationship between slavery and capitalism, and several anniversaries commemorating the abolition of slavery in the Atlantic world.1 Concomitant with this heightened awareness, there has been a drama…
From freedom’s sun some glimmering rays are shed that cheer the gloomy realms’: Dessalines at Dartmouth, 1804
Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the Haitian Revolution’s two most important leaders, have long been considered each others’ foils. Whereas Dessalines has been subjected to vicious, racist caricature, Toussaint has tended to elicit more sympathetic portrayals. This paper examines a rare, recently rediscovered exception to this dichotomy. Stephen Farley and Avery Williams, two Dartmouth College seniors, co-wrote and performed a sh…
On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, written by Maria Cristina Fumagalli
Long a site of outrages, the Haitian-Dominican border is once again drawing international attention.Fleeing threats of deportation and violence in the Dominican Republic, some 3,000 Haitian-Dominican refugees have been abandoned to their fate, like so much human refuse, in squalid conditions and legal limbo in the southwest of Hispaniola's borderland.The catalyst was the decision of the Dominican Republic's Constitutional Court in September 2013 …
The Black Jacobins reader
Haiti, principle of hope: Parallels and connections in the works of C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, Aimé Césaire, and Édouard Glissant
This article focuses on the interactions, connections and parallels in literary texts addressing Haiti by Anglophone Caribbean writers C.L.R. James and Derek Walcott, and Francophone writers Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant. Primary materials considered include: C.L.R. James’ 1934 playscript, Toussaint Louverture, which had been lost for many years until recently; two plays by Derek Walcott, Henri Christophe and Drums and Colours; Aimé Césaire’s…
Toussaint Louverture: The story of the only succesful slave revolt in history
Lost for many years, the publication of C.L.R. James’ 1934 play script, Toussaint Louverture, in a superlative scholarly edition, is cause for celebration. Discovered in 2005 by Christian Hogsbjerg
The Haitian Revolution and Socio-economic Rights
This chapter traces the socio-economic dimensions of rights development in the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). The author argues that, in the context of this revolution, which began with a revolt against slavery but became an anti-colonial struggle for independence, the conceptual separation of civil and political rights, on the one hand, and socio-economic rights, on the other, makes little sense. The story of the birth of the world’s first blac…
Law and Black Agency in Memories of Abolition: Human Rights and Slavery Films
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