Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution

Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of RevolutionModernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (17911804). 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

Although writing is her love

Grade level : 9 and up

Walcott offers a new humanism that begins by acknowledging that present conceptions of what it means to be human do not currently include Black people

For those of us who were schooled under apartheid

But as Portia spirals out of control

his spectral visits wild

” a flash fiction piece among several in the collection

With the wisdom of a jazz scholar

from the Jubilee Singers in the nineteenth century to Jimi Hendrix to rap

in a society that prides itself on being color-blind

While providing insights into the evolution of African cities

This book represents the first attempt to holistically document and analyze the causes of deadly conflict in Liberia from its founding to the present