Marlene L Daut
Biographic Data
| ID | 503165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marlene L Daut |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marlene L |
| FAMILY NAME | Daut |
| SIGNATURE | DAUT M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | African American Studies, Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9106-5771 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How the Haitian Revolutionaries Led the World from Slavery to Freedom
What if much of our understanding of slavery’s abolition is misguided? Conventional narratives revolve around human rights advancements in the United States, Great Britain, and France. Such accounts typically begin with white Europeans from Spain and Portugal colonizing the Caribbean and the Americas, replacing native populations with captive Africans forced into harsh labor as slaves. The story continues with the rise of the plantation supported…
Theresa' To The Rescue! African American Women's Resistance and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution
O texto a seguir compõe o sexto capítulo do livro Trópicos do Haiti: Raça e a história literária da Revolução Haitiana no Mundo Atlântico, 1789-1865, ainda sem tradução para o português. Nele, a autora reflete sobre a distribuição generificada de papeis na memória e nos registros literários sobre a Revolução Haitiana nas décadas que a seguiram. Para tanto, ela analisa o "Theresa, um conto haytiano", assinado apenas como "S." e veiculado no jornal…
Perspectiva de Ensino
Este artigo, pensado sobretudo enquanto contribuição pedagógica, volta-se especificamente para o diálogo com professores de história. O texto não apenas apresenta algumas possibilidades de abordagem da Revolução Haitiana em sala de aula, como busca pôr em questão as abordagens tradicionais da temática, discutindo seus erros e limitações. Nesse sentido, é uma contribuição pedagógica relevante para a história, mas também para outras áreas (como o d…
Beyond Trouillot
This essay explores the genealogy of historian and anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot's writings as related to broader trends in historical scholarship. The author suggests that it was through Silencing the Past's acceptance and ascendance within the very North Atlantic "guild" that Trouillot deconstructs in his historical writings that the ideas of nineteenth-century Haitian historians such as Baron de Vastey, Hérard Dumesle, Beaubrun Ardouin…
Nothing in Nature is Mute
In 1983, Jacquelin Dolcé, Gérard Dorval, and Jean Miotel Casthely published an intellectual history of Haiti titled Le Romantisme en Haïti: La Vie intellectuelle, 1804–1915. The work opens with a rather bold statement: "Western thought is so preponderant among young people that it would seem to have expressed everything, anticipated everything."1 They go on to lament that because of this, "eurocentrism has triumphed." The authors immediately sign…
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
The Uses of Vastey
By looking at largely contemporaneous nineteenth-century writing about Vastey from England, the United States, and France, this chapter examines how Baron de Vastey’s writings became the signs and symbols of the promises of black sovereignty in the Atlantic World. The author also shows the way in which Vastey’s ideas positively inflected international attitudes towards Haitian independence. By reading reviews of Vastey’s works, Daut argues, we ca…
Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution refers to a collection of slave revolts and military strikes beginning in August of 1791 that resulted in the eventual abolition of slavery in the French colony of Saint‐Domingue and its subsequent independence and rebirth in January of 1804 as Haiti, the first independent black nation of the American hemisphere
Tropics of Haiti
The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) was an event of monumental world-historical significance, and here, in the first systematic literary history of those events, Haiti's war of independence is examined through the eyes of its actual and imagined participants, observers, survivors, and cultural descendants. The 'transatlantic print culture' under discussion in this literary history reveals that enlightenment racial 'science' was the primary vehicle…
Daring to Be Free / Dying to Be Free
Daring to Be Free / Dying to Be Free:Toward a Dialogic Haitian-U.S. Studies Marlene L. Daut (bio) Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution. By Matthew J. Clavin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 238 pages. $39.95 (cloth). From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan Americanism, 1870-1964. By Millery Polyné. Gainesville: University Press of Flor…
Are They Mad? Nation and Narration in Tous les hommes sont fous
All Men Are Mad, by Philippe Thoby-Marcelin and Pierre Marcelin, is set during the antisuperstition campaign in Haiti, which was led by the French Catholic Church during the 1940s. The Marcelin brothers' novel was not only a devastating critique of religious persecution but also a pithy commentary on the structure of the nation-state, meaning all nation-states, not only the polity of Haiti. The text was consequently misread by literary critics wh…
Are They Mad? Nation and Narration inTous les hommes sont fous
Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution refers to a collection of slave revolts and military strikes beginning in August of 1791 that resulted in the eventual abolition of slavery in the French colony of Saint‐Domingue and its subsequent independence and rebirth in January of 1804 as Haiti, the first independent black nation of the American hemisphere
Daring to Be Free / Dying to Be Free
Daring to Be Free / Dying to Be Free:Toward a Dialogic Haitian-U.S. Studies Marlene L. Daut (bio) Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution. By Matthew J. Clavin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 238 pages. $39.95 (cloth). From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan Americanism, 1870-1964. By Millery Polyné. Gainesville: University Press of Flor…
Are They Mad? Nation and Narration in Tous les hommes sont fous
All Men Are Mad, by Philippe Thoby-Marcelin and Pierre Marcelin, is set during the antisuperstition campaign in Haiti, which was led by the French Catholic Church during the 1940s. The Marcelin brothers' novel was not only a devastating critique of religious persecution but also a pithy commentary on the structure of the nation-state, meaning all nation-states, not only the polity of Haiti. The text was consequently misread by literary critics wh…
Are They Mad? Nation and Narration inTous les hommes sont fous
Daring to Be Free / Dying to Be Free
Daring to Be Free / Dying to Be Free:Toward a Dialogic Haitian-U.S. Studies Marlene L. Daut (bio) Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution. By Matthew J. Clavin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 238 pages. $39.95 (cloth). From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan Americanism, 1870-1964. By Millery Polyné. Gainesville: University Press of Flor…
Tropics of Haiti
The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) was an event of monumental world-historical significance, and here, in the first systematic literary history of those events, Haiti's war of independence is examined through the eyes of its actual and imagined participants, observers, survivors, and cultural descendants. The 'transatlantic print culture' under discussion in this literary history reveals that enlightenment racial 'science' was the primary vehicle…
Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution refers to a collection of slave revolts and military strikes beginning in August of 1791 that resulted in the eventual abolition of slavery in the French colony of Saint‐Domingue and its subsequent independence and rebirth in January of 1804 as Haiti, the first independent black nation of the American hemisphere
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
The Uses of Vastey
By looking at largely contemporaneous nineteenth-century writing about Vastey from England, the United States, and France, this chapter examines how Baron de Vastey’s writings became the signs and symbols of the promises of black sovereignty in the Atlantic World. The author also shows the way in which Vastey’s ideas positively inflected international attitudes towards Haitian independence. By reading reviews of Vastey’s works, Daut argues, we ca…
Nothing in Nature is Mute
In 1983, Jacquelin Dolcé, Gérard Dorval, and Jean Miotel Casthely published an intellectual history of Haiti titled Le Romantisme en Haïti: La Vie intellectuelle, 1804–1915. The work opens with a rather bold statement: "Western thought is so preponderant among young people that it would seem to have expressed everything, anticipated everything."1 They go on to lament that because of this, "eurocentrism has triumphed." The authors immediately sign…
Beyond Trouillot
This essay explores the genealogy of historian and anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot's writings as related to broader trends in historical scholarship. The author suggests that it was through Silencing the Past's acceptance and ascendance within the very North Atlantic "guild" that Trouillot deconstructs in his historical writings that the ideas of nineteenth-century Haitian historians such as Baron de Vastey, Hérard Dumesle, Beaubrun Ardouin…
Perspectiva de Ensino
Este artigo, pensado sobretudo enquanto contribuição pedagógica, volta-se especificamente para o diálogo com professores de história. O texto não apenas apresenta algumas possibilidades de abordagem da Revolução Haitiana em sala de aula, como busca pôr em questão as abordagens tradicionais da temática, discutindo seus erros e limitações. Nesse sentido, é uma contribuição pedagógica relevante para a história, mas também para outras áreas (como o d…
Theresa' To The Rescue! African American Women's Resistance and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution
O texto a seguir compõe o sexto capítulo do livro Trópicos do Haiti: Raça e a história literária da Revolução Haitiana no Mundo Atlântico, 1789-1865, ainda sem tradução para o português. Nele, a autora reflete sobre a distribuição generificada de papeis na memória e nos registros literários sobre a Revolução Haitiana nas décadas que a seguiram. Para tanto, ela analisa o "Theresa, um conto haytiano", assinado apenas como "S." e veiculado no jornal…
How the Haitian Revolutionaries Led the World from Slavery to Freedom
What if much of our understanding of slavery’s abolition is misguided? Conventional narratives revolve around human rights advancements in the United States, Great Britain, and France. Such accounts typically begin with white Europeans from Spain and Portugal colonizing the Caribbean and the Americas, replacing native populations with captive Africans forced into harsh labor as slaves. The story continues with the rise of the plantation supported…
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