Chelsea Stieber
Biographic Data
| ID | 908018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chelsea Stieber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chelsea |
| FAMILY NAME | Stieber |
| SIGNATURE | STIEBER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Catholic University of America |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Perspective
Jean Casimir's The Haitians is a decolonial history of the Haitian people ("une lecture décoloniale" in French) that challenges dominant narratives about the Haitian Revolution and Haitian history in the North Atlantic academy. This essay explores Casimir's efforts to recenter the Haitian people-their self-determination and their perspective-in the radical anticolonial, antislavery project that is Haiti. Rather than placing Casimir in relation to…
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin, and: Rethinking the Haitian Revolution: Slavery, Independence, and the Struggle for Recognition by Alex Dupuy, and: The Ha…
Reviewed by: A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin, and: Rethinking the Haitian Revolution: Slavery, Independence, and the Struggle for Recognition by Alex Dupuy, and: The Haitians: A Decolonial History by Jean Casimir, and: The Guise of Exceptionalism: Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti and the United States by Robert Fatton Jr Chelsea Stieber A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution…
J ean -P ierre L e G launec . The Cry of Vertières: Liberation, Memory, and the Beginning of Haiti
France declared 2021 the “year of Napoleon.” Numerous conferences and publications commemorated the bicentenary of the French emperor’s death, culminating in a splashy exhibition. Though the organizers focused mainly on his exploits as a military leader, they did include a small section on Napoleon’s first major defeat at the Battle of Vertières where his expeditionary army capitulated to the Indigenous Army in Saint-Domingue on November 18, 1803…
Mémoire and Vindicationism in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue
This essay analyzes the genre of mémoire produced by gens de couleur (free people of color) within the colonial and military bureaucracy of revolutionary Saint-Domingue. Building on recent scholarship on Toussaint Louverture's 1802 "Mémoire du général Toussaint Louverture," it situates the genre in broader conversation with the mass of bureaucratic and administrative writing in the colony by offering close readings of mémoires from Julien Raimond…
The Second Empire of Haiti and the Exiled Republic
This chapter analyzes two concepts of “civilization”—the Western, dominant notion and its critique—at work and in tension between imperial Haiti and the republic-in-exile. Among exiled republicans, a refined, nonviolent notion of “civilization” and “culture” sought to cultivate and rehabilitate Haiti’s image in France. In imperial Haiti, on the other hand, Soulouque staked a challenge to the exclusionary, racialized notion of “civilization” itsel…
Southern Republic of Letters
This chapter analyzes the emergence of a decidedly modern “literary” sensibility in southern writing during the latter half of the civil war period (1814–1820) that reflects the transformations of the republican state in Haiti under Pétion. A first part establishes the contours of Pétion’s “new” republicanism, which he elaborated within the Atlantic world transformations of the mid-1810s. Next, it analyzes the new republican publications that res…
Civil War, Guerre de Plume
This chapter is the first of two that trace the distinctive cultures of writing in the North and South that emerged during this civil war period. The chapter analyzes the print culture of the civil war by comparing each government’s press operations, then focuses on a particularly fraught moment in the North/South civil war with the French Restoration government’s threat to retake the former colony. The chapter makes the case for a specific Chris…
Nationals and Liberals, 1904/1906
This chapter traces the continued civil war in Haiti that manifested itself along these newly formed post-1869 divides: between Liberals and Nationals in politics, divergent approaches to education and cultural policy, and new approaches to commemorating Haiti’s foundational 1804/1806 division at the turn of the new century. Yet these new divides are not invented out of whole cloth: they draw heavily upon Haitian history while responding to ever-…
Epilogue
The epilogue presents the curious case of the two Christophean societies: one in Cap-Haïtien in 1954, and the other in Paris in 1965. It argues that the critiques of Haiti’s revolutionary and post-independence leaders among mid-twentieth-century Caribbean intellectuals is a reaction primarily to the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti. It argues that scholars must revisit the Dessalinean heritage of radical postcolonial critique, extracting it from it…
Note on Translation
In the interest of making these Haitian texts available to the widest audience, I have chosen to present them in translation here.
The Myth of the Universal Haitian Republic, or Deux Nations dans la Nation
This chapter focuses on unity, or laconcorde—a crucial republican concept linked to fraternité—and its function in Boyer’s unified republican island state (over which he served as president for life from 1822 to 1843) and the realities of disunity and division within it. The chapter begins by unearthing the tension between territorial concorde and internal strife to reveal the limits and possibilities of Boyer’s unified island state, which it arg…
Dessalines’s Empire of Liberty
This chapter traces the print culture of the immediate post-independence period leading up to Dessalines’s assassination on October 17, 1806, recasting Haiti’s earliest post-independence writing within the context of political and ideological divisions that shaped the period. Under Dessalineanism, individual rights and liberties had to be sacrificed to the greater cause of sovereign statehood. The republicans disagreed: they sought to found a sta…
Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954
"Haiti's Paper War" published on by NYU Press.
Haiti’s National Revolution
This chapter considers the National Revolution in 1920s and ‘30s Haiti under the US occupation. The first two sections excavate the heritage of Haiti’s occupation-era far-right nationalism by analyzing the little-studied literary magazine Stella (Cap-Haïtien, 1926–1930). It highlights the poetry and prose works published in the magazine, which the writers situated within the longer Haitian tradition of nationalist, Dessalinean intellectual produc…
“Camelots du roi ou rouges”: Radicalization in early twentieth-century Haitian periodicals
This article explores the radicalization of early twentieth-century Haitian periodicals. While the importance of Marxist and radical socialist thought in early twentieth-century Haiti has been the focus of much scholarly attention, the presence of far-right nationalism has yet to receive its due. Maurrassisme, or integral nationalism, is one of the most important French-language ideologies of the early twentieth century – one that scholars often …
Gísli Pálsson, L’homme qui vola sa liberté. Odyssée d’un esclave
Si l’histoire des systèmes de traite et des esclavages continue à prendre de l’ampleur dans les universités et centres de recherche partout à travers le monde, l’histoire de la traite danoise et du système esclavagiste dans les Antilles danoises reste néanmoins peu connue. L’épopée de Hans Jonathan, esclavisé né dans la colonie danoise de Sainte-Croix et mort libre en Islande, ouvre une fenêtre sur cette histoire à travers les pérégrinations tran…
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism, by Marlene L. Daut
The Northern récit paysan: Regional Variations of the Modern Peasant Novel in Haiti
In a revisionist reading of the Haitian peasant novel, this article addresses the short shrift given to Haiti's regionalism in scholarship, a lacuna that social geographer Georges Anglade attributes to ‘les effets d'occultation propre à la structure dominante centralisée’. Contrary to Port-au-Prince-centric renderings of Haitian literary history, which locate the elaboration of the modern peasant novel in the elite (read: Port-au-Princean) intell…
The Northern récit paysan: Regional Variations of the Modern Peasant Novel in Haiti
In a revisionist reading of the Haitian peasant novel, this article addresses the short shrift given to Haiti's regionalism in scholarship, a lacuna that social geographer Georges Anglade attributes to ‘les effets d'occultation propre à la structure dominante centralisée’. Contrary to Port-au-Prince-centric renderings of Haitian literary history, which locate the elaboration of the modern peasant novel in the elite (read: Port-au-Princean) intell…
Mémoire and Vindicationism in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue
This essay analyzes the genre of mémoire produced by gens de couleur (free people of color) within the colonial and military bureaucracy of revolutionary Saint-Domingue. Building on recent scholarship on Toussaint Louverture's 1802 "Mémoire du général Toussaint Louverture," it situates the genre in broader conversation with the mass of bureaucratic and administrative writing in the colony by offering close readings of mémoires from Julien Raimond…
The Northern récit paysan: Regional Variations of the Modern Peasant Novel in Haiti
In a revisionist reading of the Haitian peasant novel, this article addresses the short shrift given to Haiti's regionalism in scholarship, a lacuna that social geographer Georges Anglade attributes to ‘les effets d'occultation propre à la structure dominante centralisée’. Contrary to Port-au-Prince-centric renderings of Haitian literary history, which locate the elaboration of the modern peasant novel in the elite (read: Port-au-Princean) intell…
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism, by Marlene L. Daut
The Second Empire of Haiti and the Exiled Republic
This chapter analyzes two concepts of “civilization”—the Western, dominant notion and its critique—at work and in tension between imperial Haiti and the republic-in-exile. Among exiled republicans, a refined, nonviolent notion of “civilization” and “culture” sought to cultivate and rehabilitate Haiti’s image in France. In imperial Haiti, on the other hand, Soulouque staked a challenge to the exclusionary, racialized notion of “civilization” itsel…
Southern Republic of Letters
This chapter analyzes the emergence of a decidedly modern “literary” sensibility in southern writing during the latter half of the civil war period (1814–1820) that reflects the transformations of the republican state in Haiti under Pétion. A first part establishes the contours of Pétion’s “new” republicanism, which he elaborated within the Atlantic world transformations of the mid-1810s. Next, it analyzes the new republican publications that res…
Civil War, Guerre de Plume
This chapter is the first of two that trace the distinctive cultures of writing in the North and South that emerged during this civil war period. The chapter analyzes the print culture of the civil war by comparing each government’s press operations, then focuses on a particularly fraught moment in the North/South civil war with the French Restoration government’s threat to retake the former colony. The chapter makes the case for a specific Chris…
Nationals and Liberals, 1904/1906
This chapter traces the continued civil war in Haiti that manifested itself along these newly formed post-1869 divides: between Liberals and Nationals in politics, divergent approaches to education and cultural policy, and new approaches to commemorating Haiti’s foundational 1804/1806 division at the turn of the new century. Yet these new divides are not invented out of whole cloth: they draw heavily upon Haitian history while responding to ever-…
Epilogue
The epilogue presents the curious case of the two Christophean societies: one in Cap-Haïtien in 1954, and the other in Paris in 1965. It argues that the critiques of Haiti’s revolutionary and post-independence leaders among mid-twentieth-century Caribbean intellectuals is a reaction primarily to the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti. It argues that scholars must revisit the Dessalinean heritage of radical postcolonial critique, extracting it from it…
Note on Translation
In the interest of making these Haitian texts available to the widest audience, I have chosen to present them in translation here.
The Myth of the Universal Haitian Republic, or Deux Nations dans la Nation
This chapter focuses on unity, or laconcorde—a crucial republican concept linked to fraternité—and its function in Boyer’s unified republican island state (over which he served as president for life from 1822 to 1843) and the realities of disunity and division within it. The chapter begins by unearthing the tension between territorial concorde and internal strife to reveal the limits and possibilities of Boyer’s unified island state, which it arg…
Dessalines’s Empire of Liberty
This chapter traces the print culture of the immediate post-independence period leading up to Dessalines’s assassination on October 17, 1806, recasting Haiti’s earliest post-independence writing within the context of political and ideological divisions that shaped the period. Under Dessalineanism, individual rights and liberties had to be sacrificed to the greater cause of sovereign statehood. The republicans disagreed: they sought to found a sta…
Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954
"Haiti's Paper War" published on by NYU Press.
Haiti’s National Revolution
This chapter considers the National Revolution in 1920s and ‘30s Haiti under the US occupation. The first two sections excavate the heritage of Haiti’s occupation-era far-right nationalism by analyzing the little-studied literary magazine Stella (Cap-Haïtien, 1926–1930). It highlights the poetry and prose works published in the magazine, which the writers situated within the longer Haitian tradition of nationalist, Dessalinean intellectual produc…
“Camelots du roi ou rouges”: Radicalization in early twentieth-century Haitian periodicals
This article explores the radicalization of early twentieth-century Haitian periodicals. While the importance of Marxist and radical socialist thought in early twentieth-century Haiti has been the focus of much scholarly attention, the presence of far-right nationalism has yet to receive its due. Maurrassisme, or integral nationalism, is one of the most important French-language ideologies of the early twentieth century – one that scholars often …
Gísli Pálsson, L’homme qui vola sa liberté. Odyssée d’un esclave
Si l’histoire des systèmes de traite et des esclavages continue à prendre de l’ampleur dans les universités et centres de recherche partout à travers le monde, l’histoire de la traite danoise et du système esclavagiste dans les Antilles danoises reste néanmoins peu connue. L’épopée de Hans Jonathan, esclavisé né dans la colonie danoise de Sainte-Croix et mort libre en Islande, ouvre une fenêtre sur cette histoire à travers les pérégrinations tran…
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin, and: Rethinking the Haitian Revolution: Slavery, Independence, and the Struggle for Recognition by Alex Dupuy, and: The Ha…
Reviewed by: A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin, and: Rethinking the Haitian Revolution: Slavery, Independence, and the Struggle for Recognition by Alex Dupuy, and: The Haitians: A Decolonial History by Jean Casimir, and: The Guise of Exceptionalism: Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti and the United States by Robert Fatton Jr Chelsea Stieber A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution…
J ean -P ierre L e G launec . The Cry of Vertières: Liberation, Memory, and the Beginning of Haiti
France declared 2021 the “year of Napoleon.” Numerous conferences and publications commemorated the bicentenary of the French emperor’s death, culminating in a splashy exhibition. Though the organizers focused mainly on his exploits as a military leader, they did include a small section on Napoleon’s first major defeat at the Battle of Vertières where his expeditionary army capitulated to the Indigenous Army in Saint-Domingue on November 18, 1803…
Mémoire and Vindicationism in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue
This essay analyzes the genre of mémoire produced by gens de couleur (free people of color) within the colonial and military bureaucracy of revolutionary Saint-Domingue. Building on recent scholarship on Toussaint Louverture's 1802 "Mémoire du général Toussaint Louverture," it situates the genre in broader conversation with the mass of bureaucratic and administrative writing in the colony by offering close readings of mémoires from Julien Raimond…
Perspective
Jean Casimir's The Haitians is a decolonial history of the Haitian people ("une lecture décoloniale" in French) that challenges dominant narratives about the Haitian Revolution and Haitian history in the North Atlantic academy. This essay explores Casimir's efforts to recenter the Haitian people-their self-determination and their perspective-in the radical anticolonial, antislavery project that is Haiti. Rather than placing Casimir in relation to…
Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (13 works) · History (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (7 works) · Sociology (6 works)