Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Additional text

Faherty's thinking and writing are replete with clarity and elegance, rendering just how much the materiality of aesthetics intersects with political and social formation. The introduction, in particular, makes a striking, readable, inspiring best case for beholding Haiti's presence in U.S. national literary imagining.

Product details

• Authors: Duncan Faherty, Prof Duncan (Associate Professor of Engli Faherty
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2023
• EAN: 9780192889157
• ISBN: 978-0-19-288915-7
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; EDUCATION / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, History of the Americas