The Haitian Revolution and the early United States : histories, textualities, geographies /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock (Editor), Drexler, Michael J. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Series:	Early American studies.
Subjects:	Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804. Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Literature and the revolution. Haiti > Foreign relations > United States. United States > Foreign relations > Haiti. United States > History > 1783-1815.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Haiti and the United States, entwined / Elizabeth Maddock Dillon and Michael J. Drexler
Revolutionary St. Domingue and the emerging Atlantic : paradigm of sovereignity / Carolyn Fick
(Mis)reading the Revolution : Philadelphia and "St. Domingo", 1789-1792 / James Alexander Dun
"The mischief that awaits us" : revolution, rumor, and serial unrest in the Early Republic / Duncan Faherty
"Entirely different from any likeness I ever saw" : aesthetics as counter-memory historiography and the iconography of Toussaint Louverture / Ivy G. Wilson
Frederick Douglass, Anténor Firmin, and the making of U.S.-Haitian relations / Laurent Dubois
The Louisiana Purchase adn the Haitian Revolutioni / David Geggus
Republic of medicine : immunology and national identity in the Age of Revolution / Cristobal Silva
The occult Atlantic : Franklin, Mesmer, and the Haitian roots of modernity / Kirean M. Murphy
In the shadow of Haiti : the Negro Seaman Act, counter-revolutionary St. Domingue, and black emigration / Edlie Wong.
The Haytian papers and black labor ideology in the antebellum United States / Colleen C. O'Brien
The constitution of Toussaint : another origin of African American literature / Michael J. Drewler and Ed White
Haiti and the New-World novel / Gretchen K. Woertendyke
Dispossession and cosmopolitan community in Leonora Sansay's Secret history / Siân Silyn Roberts
Theatrical rebels and refugees : The triumps of love, the Haitian Revolution, and early American performance tradition / Peter P. Reed
The "alpha and omega" of Haitian literature : Baron de Vastey adn the U.S. audience of Haitian political writing, 1807-1825 / Marlene L. Daut
Epilogue : two archives and the idea of Haiti / Anthony Bogues.