Colonial System Unveiled

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Av Baron de Vastey, Baron De Vastey, Chris Bongie

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Long neglected in mainstream history books, the Haitian Revolution(1791–1804) is now being claimed across a range of academic disciplines asan event of world-historical importance. The former slaves’ victory overtheir French masters and the creation of the independent nation of Haiti in1804 is being newly heralded not only as a seminal moment in thetransnational formation of the ‘black Atlantic’ but as the mostfar-reaching manifestation of ‘Radical Enlightenment’.The best known Haitian writer to emerge in the years after the revolutionis Baron de Vastey (1781–1820), who authored over ten books and pamphletsbetween 1814 and his murder in 1820. His first and most incendiary work, Lesystème colonial dévoilé (1814), provides a moving invocation of thehorrors of slavery in pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue. Its trailblazingcritique of colonialism anticipates by over a hundred years theanticolonial politics (and poetics) of Césaire, Fanon, and Sartre. Translated here for the first time, Vastey’s forceful unveiling of thecolonial system will be compulsory reading for scholars across thehumanities.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-01-25
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor340
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781781383049

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Baron de Vastey was a man of letters in post-revolutionary Haiti. He wrote four major books between 1814 and 1819, along with a series of pamphlets, before being murdered in 1820. Chris Bongie is Professor and Queen’s National Scholar at Queen’s University, Canada. Previous publications include Friends and Enemies: The Scribal Politics of Post/Colonial Literature (LUP, 2008), Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature (Stanford UP, 1998) and Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de siècle (Stanford UP, 1991).

Preface: Baron de Vastey and Post/Revolutionary HaitiJean Louis Vastey (1781–1820): A Biographical SketchIntroduction1. 1820: Death of a Scribe2. 1814: The Colonial System Restored3. 1814–2014: Reading the Protean TextThe Colonial System UnveiledNotes to The Colonial System UnveiledSupplementary Essays:1. Marlene Daut – ‘Monstrous Testimony: Baron de Vastey and the Politics of Black Memory’2. Doris Garraway – ‘Abolition, Sentiment, and the Problem of Agency in Le système colonial dévoilé’3. Chris Bongie – ‘Memories of Development: Le système colonial dévoilé and the Performance of Literacy’4. Nick Nesbitt – ‘Afterword: Vastey and the System of Colonial Violence’BibliographyIndex

Reviews'In this first-rate critical edition, Bongie illuminates the significance of Baron de Vastey’s Le système colonial dévoilé well beyond the field of Haitian Studies. Indeed, he argues that The Colonial System Unveiled “can legitimately be considered the first systemic critique of colonialism ever written, certainly from the perspective of a colonized subject”. With the book now available in English for the first time, many new readers will be amply persuaded.'Ada Ferrer, New York University