The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters (Hardcover)

Prof Duncan Faherty

ISBN 10: 019288915X / ISBN 13: 9780192889157

Editore: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2023

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Hardcover. Concerns about Haiti suffused the early American print public sphere from the outbreak of the revolution in 1791 until well after its conclusion in 1804. The gothic, sentimental, and sensationalist undertones of openly speculative periodical accounts were accelerated within the genre of fiction, where the specter of Haiti was a commonplace trope. Haiti was not an enigma occasionally deployed by American writers, but rather the overt bellwether against which theprospects for national futurity were imagined and interrogated. Ideological representations of Haiti infected the imaginations of early American readers in ways that have yet to be accounted for inAmerican literary history.Unfortunately, scholars have long occluded how early Americans understood their nation as entwined with Haiti. Faherty aims to counter this tacit disavowal by registering just how obsessed early American readers were with the seismic force of the Haitian Revolution and its capacity to produce aftershocks in the American domestic sphere. In unraveling how American literary history has silenced certain historical contexts around race, citizenship,belonging, and freedom, The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters: Incipient Fevers recuperates lost textual objects while redressing a crucial blind spot in American literary history. Formyriad writers in the early Republic, Haiti was both unambiguously familiar and categorically incompatible. Synchronously held fast and rejected, Haiti was the ever-present index of the United States: a distorted reflection of the Republic's past, a troubling echo of its present, and a nightmarish harbinger of divisive futures. In unraveling how American literary history has silenced the centrality of Haiti in U.S. cultural development, The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters: Incipient Fevers recuperates lost textual objects while redressing a crucial blind spot in American literary history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters (Hardcover)
• Editore: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 019288915X
• ISBN 13: 9780192889157
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

Concerns about Haiti suffused the early American print public sphere from the outbreak of the revolution in 1791 until well after its conclusion in 1804. The gothic, sentimental, and sensationalist undertones of openly speculative periodical accounts were accelerated within the genre of fiction, where the specter of Haiti was a commonplace trope. Haiti was not an enigma occasionally deployed by American writers, but rather the overt bellwether against which the prospects for national futurity were imagined and interrogated. Ideological representations of Haiti infected the imaginations of early American readers in ways that have yet to be accounted for in American literary history.

Unfortunately, scholars have long occluded how early Americans understood their nation as entwined with Haiti. Faherty aims to counter this tacit disavowal by registering just how obsessed early American readers were with the seismic force of the Haitian Revolution and its capacity to produce aftershocks in the American domestic sphere. In unraveling how American literary history has silenced certain historical contexts around race, citizenship, belonging, and freedom, The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters: Incipient Fevers recuperates lost textual objects while redressing a crucial blind spot in American literary history. For myriad writers in the early Republic, Haiti was both unambiguously familiar and categorically incompatible. Synchronously held fast and rejected, Haiti was the ever-present index of the United States: a distorted reflection of the Republic's past, a troubling echo of its present, and a nightmarish harbinger of divisive futures.

Informazioni sull?autore

Duncan Faherty is Associate Professor of English & American Studies at Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. At the Graduate Center he is also a core faculty member of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change. Along with Ed White (Tulane), he is the co-founder and co-director of the Just Teach One digital textual recovery project. He is the author of Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776-1858, and his work has also appeared in American Literature, American Quarterly, Early American Literature, and Reviews in American History.