{"product_id":"tropics-of-haiti-marlene-l-daut-9781781381847","title":"Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865","description":"The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was an event of monumental world-historical significance, and here, in the first systematic literary history of those events, Haiti's war of independence is examined through the eyes of its actual and imagined participants, observers, survivors, and cultural descendants. The 'transatlantic print culture' under discussion in this literary history reveals that enlightenment racial 'science' was the primary vehicle through which the Haitian Revolution was interpreted by nineteenth-century Haitians, Europeans, and U.S. Americans alike. Through its author's contention that the Haitian revolutionary wars were incessantly racialized by four constantly recurring tropes - the 'monstrous hybrid', the 'tropical temptress', the 'tragic mulatto\/a', and the 'colored historian' - \u003cem\u003eTropics of Haiti \u003c\/em\u003eshows the ways in which the nineteenth-century tendency to understand Haiti's revolution in primarily racial terms has affected present day demonizations of Haiti and Haitians. In the end, this new archive of Haitian revolutionary writing, much of which has until now remained unknown to the contemporary reading public, invites us to examine how nineteenth-century attempts to paint Haitian independence as the result of a racial revolution coincide with present-day desires to render insignificant and 'unthinkable' the second independent republic of the New World.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marlene L. Daut\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1781381844\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781381847\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 692\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarlene L. Daut \u003c\/strong\u003eis Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University and Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies, The Claremont Colleges.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marlene L. Daut","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44077300515071,"sku":"9781781381847","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_633ab129-bc8a-44de-94bc-b99560326bbd.jpg?v=1685469254","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tropics-of-haiti-marlene-l-daut-9781781381847","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}