Chapter 12. Haiti and the New- World Novel

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. 1
4. Part I. Histories
5. Chapter 1. Revolutionary St. Domingue and the Emerging Atlantic: Paradigms of Sovereignty 19
6. Chapter 2. (Mis)reading the Revolution 42
7. Chapter 3. “The Mischief That Awaits Us” 58
8. Chapter 4. “Entirely Different from Any Likeness I Ever Saw” 80
9. Chapter 5. Frederick Douglass, Anténor Firmin, and the Making of U.S.- Haitian Relations 95
10. Part II. Geographies
11. Chapter 6. The Louisiana Purchase and the Haitian Revolution 113
12. Chapter 7. Republic of Medicine 130
13. Chapter 8. The Occult Atlantic 145
14. Chapter 9. In the Shadow of Haiti 162
15. Chapter 10. The Haytian Papers and Black Labor Ideology in the Antebellum United States 189
16. Part III. Textualities
17. Chapter 11. The Constitution of Toussaint: Another Origin of African American Literature 211
18. Chapter 12. Haiti and the New- World Novel 232
19. Chapter 13. Dispossession and Cosmopolitan Community in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History 250
20. Chapter 14. Theatrical Rebels and Refugees 266
21. Chapter 15. The “Alpha and Omega” of Haitian Literature 287
22. Epilogue 314
23. Notes 327
24. Works Cited 385
25. Contributors 411
26. Index 415
27. Acknowledgments 421