Marlene L. Daut is Associate Professor of African Diaspora Studies at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies and the Program in American Studies at the University of Virginia. She specializes in early and nineteenth-century American and Caribbean literary and cultural studies. Her work has been supported with grants from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment in the Humanities, and the National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park).

• Introduction: The “Mulatto/a” Vengeance of ‘Haitian Exceptionalism’Part One: Monstrous Hybridity and Enlightenment Literacy1. Monstrous Hybridity in Colonial and Revolutionary Writing from Saint-Domingue2. Baron de Vastey, Colonial Discourse, and the Global “Scientific” Sphere3. Victor Hugo and the Rhetorical Possibilities of Monstrous Hybridity in 19th-century Revolutionary FictionPart Two: Transgressing the Trope of the Tropical Temptress4. Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Daughter and the Anti-Slavery Muse of La Mulâtre comme il y a beaucoup de blanches (1803)5. 'Born to Command:’ Leonora Sansay and the Paradoxes of Female Benevolence as Resistance in Zelica; the Creole6. 'Theresa' to the Rescue!: African American Women’s Resistance and the Literary History of the Haitian RevolutionPart Three: The Trope of the Tragic "Mulatto/a" and the Haitian Revolution7. “Black” Son, “White” Father: The Tragic “mulatto/a” and the Haitian Revolution in Victor Séjour’s ‘Le Mulâtre’8. Between the Family and the Nation: Toussaint Louverture and the “Interracial” Family Romance of the Haitian Revolution9. A ‘Quarrel Between Two Brothers:’ Eméric Bergeaud’s Ideal History of the Haitian RevolutionPart Four: Requiem for the 'Colored Historian;' or the 'Mulatto Legend of History'10. The Color of History: The Transatlantic Abolitionist Movement and the ‘never-to-be-forgiven course of the mulattoes’11. Victor Schoelcher, ‘L’Imagination Jaune,’ and the Francophone Genealogy of the ‘Mulatto Legend of History’12. ‘Let us be humane after the victory:’ Pierre Faubert’s New HumanismCoda: Today's Haitian ExceptionalismBibliographyIndex

'May her [Daut's] influence continue to power our society out of its systemic racism, and into a more humane, luminous future.' Julia Douthwaite Viglione, A Revolution in Fiction