Raphael Hoermann
Biographic Data
| ID | 5039849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raphael Hoermann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raphael |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoermann |
| SIGNATURE | HOERMANN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Central Lancashire Institute for Black Atlantic Research England, U.K. Preston |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6156-8431 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture, by Grégory Pierrot
Figures of terror
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 (1915–19…
A Very Hell of Horrors’? The Haitian Revolution and the Early Transatlantic Haitian Gothic
This article explores the Gothicisation of the Haitian Revolution in the transatlantic discourse during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As it argues, the Gothic mode has to be understood as a reaction to the profound challenges that the Haitian Revolution posed to a transatlantic world built on the slave economy. Pro-slavery and pro-colonialist authors demonised this successful slave revolution and one of the first anti-coloni…
Human Bondage in the Cultural Contact Zone. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Slavery and Its Discourses
Slavery – the subjection of some human beings to a state of bondage by other, more powerful, people – has been an accepted social institution since ancient times. It is less well known that slavery has also produced cultural contact zones in forcing members of different cultures into sharing the same places – whether in private households, on plantations, in mines and quarries, or indeed the same imaginative sites in works of art and public memor…
A Very Hell of Horrors’? The Haitian Revolution and the Early Transatlantic Haitian Gothic
This article explores the Gothicisation of the Haitian Revolution in the transatlantic discourse during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As it argues, the Gothic mode has to be understood as a reaction to the profound challenges that the Haitian Revolution posed to a transatlantic world built on the slave economy. Pro-slavery and pro-colonialist authors demonised this successful slave revolution and one of the first anti-coloni…
Figures of terror
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 (1915–19…
Human Bondage in the Cultural Contact Zone. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Slavery and Its Discourses
Slavery – the subjection of some human beings to a state of bondage by other, more powerful, people – has been an accepted social institution since ancient times. It is less well known that slavery has also produced cultural contact zones in forcing members of different cultures into sharing the same places – whether in private households, on plantations, in mines and quarries, or indeed the same imaginative sites in works of art and public memor…
A Very Hell of Horrors’? The Haitian Revolution and the Early Transatlantic Haitian Gothic
This article explores the Gothicisation of the Haitian Revolution in the transatlantic discourse during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As it argues, the Gothic mode has to be understood as a reaction to the profound challenges that the Haitian Revolution posed to a transatlantic world built on the slave economy. Pro-slavery and pro-colonialist authors demonised this successful slave revolution and one of the first anti-coloni…
Figures of terror
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 (1915–19…
The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture, by Grégory Pierrot
Art (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · History (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works)