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Modernity Disavowed - Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution
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Modernity Disavowed - Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution
Fischer, Sibylle
$45.00

Modernity Disavowed is a path-breaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian revolution (1791-1804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this seminal event have been suppressed and ignored in historical and cultural records over the past two hundred years, Sibylle Fischer contends that revolutionary antislavery and its subsequent disavowal are central to the formation and understanding of Western modernity. She develops a powerful argument that the denial of revolutionary antislavery eventually became a crucial ingredient in a range of hegemonic thought, including Creole nationalism in the Caribbean and G. W. F. Hegel's master-slave dialectic. Fischer draws on history, philosophy, literary theory, and political science to examine a range of material including Haitian political and legal documents and nineteenth-century Cuban and Dominican literature and art. She demonstrates that at time when racial taxonomies were beginning to mutate into scientific racism and racist biology, the Haitian revolutionaries recognized the question of race as political.Yet, as the cultural records of neighbouring Cuba and the Dominican Republic show, the story of the Haitian Revolution has been told as one outside politics and beyond human language, as a tale of barbarism and unspeakable violence. From the time of the revolution onwards, the story has been confined to the margins of history: to rumours, oral histories, and confidential letters. Fischer shows that without accounting for revolutionary antislavery and its subsequent disavowal, Western modernity - including its hierarchy of values, depoliticization of social goals having to do with racial differences, and privileging of claims of national sovereignty - cannot be fully understood....

Second hand Paperback
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1
ISBN: 
9780822332909
SKU:
103838