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 its weaponization by the Duvalier dictatorship, in order to posit a place for Haiti in the twenty-first century.

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