Baron de Vastey and the origins of Black Atlantic humanism / Marlene Daut.
2017
F1920.V37
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Title
Baron de Vastey and the origins of Black Atlantic humanism / Marlene Daut.
Author
Daut, Marlene.
ISBN
9781137470676 (electronic book)
1137470674 (electronic book)
9781137479693
1137479698
1137470674 (electronic book)
9781137479693
1137479698
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan US, ©2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (275 pages).
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10.1057/978-1-137-47067-6 doi
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F1920.V37
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.93352996
Summary
Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey's extensive writings as a form of what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse devoted to attacking the enlightenment foundations of colonialism. Daut argues that Vastey, the most important secretary of Haiti's King Henry Christophe, was a pioneer in a tradition of deconstructing colonial racism and colonial slavery that is much more closely associated with twentieth-century writers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Aimé Césaire. By expertly forging exciting new historical and theoretical connections among Vastey and these later twentieth-century writers, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black Atlantic authors, such as Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs, Daut proves that any understanding of the genesis of Afro-diasporic thought must include Haiti's Baron de Vastey.
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New urban Atlantic.
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction: Baron de Vastey in Haitian (Revolutionary) Context
2 What's in a Name? Unfolding the Consequences of a Mistaken Identity
3 The Uses of Vastey: Reading Black Sovereignty Through Baron de Vastey in the Atlantic Public Sphere
4 Baron de Vastey's Testimonio and the Politics of Black Memory
5 "Baron de Vastey and the Twentieth-Century Theater of Haitian Independence.
2 What's in a Name? Unfolding the Consequences of a Mistaken Identity
3 The Uses of Vastey: Reading Black Sovereignty Through Baron de Vastey in the Atlantic Public Sphere
4 Baron de Vastey's Testimonio and the Politics of Black Memory
5 "Baron de Vastey and the Twentieth-Century Theater of Haitian Independence.