Haiti's Paper War
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | New York University Press |
| ISBN-13 | 9781479802135 |
| Open Library | OL21670732W |
| Total publications | 10 |
| Coverage period | 2020 - 2020 |
| Language | EN |
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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
"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…
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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
"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…