The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters

ISBN-13: 9780192889157 / Twarda / 2024 / 272 str.

Prof Duncan (Associate Professor of English & American Studi

Recenzje

Incipient Fevers is an original and eye-opening account of the foundational significance of the Haitian Revolution to literary production in the early United States and, indeed, to the larger overall history of American literature. In this superb study, Duncan Faherty demonstrates not only that the print public sphere of the early U.S. was saturated with accounts of and references to the Haitian Revolution,...The doppelg"anger nature of the Haitian Revolution thus served as what Faherty aptly terms a "hauntology" of the U.S. print public sphere in the early years of the nineteenth century and beyond. The U.S. remained (and remains) haunted by the presence of a more radical revolution-one that it must continually invoke and contain in order to imagine itself as at once free and white.

O autorze

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.