Celucien L. Joseph

Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions

Discourse on Race, Religion, and Freedom

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Produktbeschreibung

Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions investigates the intersections of history, literature, race, religion, decolonization, and freedom that led to the founding of the postcolonial state of Haiti in 1804. Particular attention is given to the place of religion in the Haitian Revolution, as well as to the interpretation and representation of this singular event in the work of Frederick Douglass and Langston Hughes. This book not only examines the multiple legacies and the problems of Enlightenment modernity, imperial colonialism, Western racism, and hegemony, but also studies their complex relationships with the institutions of slavery, religion, and Black freedom. Topics range from Makandal's postcolonial religious imagination to Boukman's liberation theology to Langston Hughes' discussion of the role of prophetic religion in the Haitian Revolution. Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions also compares Du Bois's theory of double consciousness with Fanon's theory of decolonization and revolutionary humanism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9780761862567
• ISBN-10: 0761862560
• Artikelnr.: 39675370

Autorenporträt

Celucien L. Joseph is associate professor of English at Indian River State College. His most recent books include Revolutionary Change and Democratic Religion: Christianity, Vodou, and Secularism (2020), and Theologizing in Black: On Africana Theological Ethics and Anthropology (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Interpreting and Engaging the
Haitian Revolution 1 An Appraisal of Recent Scholarship on the Haitian
Revolution 2 The Rhetoric of Prayer: Dutty Boukman, the Discourse of
"Freedom from Below," and the Politics of God 3 Prophetic Religion,
Violence, and Black Freedom: Reading Makandal's Project of Black Liberation
through A Fanonian Postcolonial Lens of Decolonization and Theory of
Revolutionary Humanism 4 "A City Upon a Hill": Haiti, Religion, and Race:
Frederick Douglass' Freedom Discourse and the Significance of the Haitian
Revolution as a Freedom Event in Modernity 5 The Spirit of Revolution, the
Spirit of Black Freedom: The Representation of the Haitian Revolution and
the Function of Black Religion in Langston Hughes' Emperor of Haiti
Bibliography Index About the Author