Uncle Tom across the Sea (and Back)
Pierre Faubert and the Haitian Response to Harriet Beecher Stowe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7621845 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Grace Albanese (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 755-786 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9831 • E-ISSN: 1527-2117 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00029831-3711114 |
| OpenAlex | W2567669954 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 26 |
The transnational material network of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) has enjoyed substantial critical analysis: however, most scholarship tends to focus on the novel’s influence in Europe. Haiti plays a much greater role in the novel than any European country, yet in contrast to Britain, France, or Hungary, the first black republic is seldom considered a serious actor within Uncle Tom’s reception history. This essay considers how Stowe’s cautionary specter of the “San Domingo hour” was translated to Haiti and, in turn, the diverse ways in which Haitians responded to l’Oncle Tom. Ultimately, this essay argues that Haiti, far from being an isolated figure, was aware of, responded to, and cannily attempted to retranslate its own image both at home and abroad. This essay contributes to a long-neglected archive of Haitian cultural production while more broadly asking how Haitian writers revised Stowe’s conceptualization of nationhood
Art history · Conceptualization · Focus (optics) · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
The Press and Brazilian Narratives of Uncle Tom's Cabin
La cabaña del Tío Tom (Uncle Tom’s Cabin), la esclavitud atlántica y la racialización de la esfera pública en la ciudad de México de mediados del siglo XIX
What’s in a Name? Vincent Ogé, Toussaint Louverture, and George Boyer Vashon’s Revision of the Haitian Revolution
To wake the nations
Scenes of subjection
The Making of Racial Sentiment
Silencing the Past
The Writing of Haiti
Sentimental Power
Tropics of Haiti
A Hideous Monster of the Mind
Haiti, History, and the Gods
The First of the (Black) Memorialists
Uncle Tom Mania
Touching Liberty
American Toussaints
Captivity and Sentiment
Haiti, Free Soil, and Antislavery in the Revolutionary Atlantic
Captivity and Sentiment
Black Message/White Envelope
Manifest Domesticity
Commerce et décolonisation
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |