Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Truncations of Modernity 1
5. PART I Cuba
6. 1 The Deadly Hermeneutics of the Trial of José Antonio Aponte 41
7. 2 Civilization and Barbarism: Cuban Wall Painting 57
8. 3 Beyond National Culture, the Abject: The Case of Plácido 77
9. 4 Cuban Antislavery Narratives and the Origins of Literary Discourse 107
10. PART II Santo Domingo/The Dominican Republic
11. 5 Memory, Trauma, History 131
12. 6 Guilt and Betrayal in Santo Domingo 155
13. 7 What Do the Haitians Want? 169
14. 8 Fictions of Literary History 180
15. PART III Saint Domingue/Haiti
16. 9 Literature and the Theater of Revolution 201
17. 10 ‘‘General Liberty, or The Planters in Paris’’ 214
18. 11 Foundational Fictions: Postrevolutionary Constitutions I 227
19. 12 Life in the Kingdom of the North 245
20. 13 Liberty and Reason of State: Postrevolutionary Constitutions II 260
21. Conclusion 273
22. Appendix A. Imperial Constitution of Haiti, 1805 275
23. Appendix B. Chronology 283
24. Notes 287
25. Index 355