Poetry of Revolution: Romanticism and National Projects

Poetry of Revolution: Romanticism and National Projects in Nineteenth-century Haiti by Amy Reinsel B.A. Indiana University, Bloo ...

ii UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Arts and Sciences This dissertation was presented by Amy Reinsel It was defended on July 30, 2008 an ...

iii This dissertation examines the largely dismissed nineteenth-century tradition of Romantic poetry in Haiti from the 1830s to ...

iv national history which make this a pivotal period in Haitian poetry. A second chapter focuses on Haiti’s most prolific ninete ...

v TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................... ...

vi 3.5.2 Love on the Plantation ................................................................................ 156  3.6 THE CA ...

vii PREFACE This dissertation would never have been possible without the intellectual acumen, genuine interest, and interminable ...

1.0 INTRODUCTION The events of January 1, 2004, marking the bicentennial of Haiti’s independence from France and the founding of ...

fall under the title of “French Caribbean” either, as do Martinique and Guadeloupe, for example, where Napoleon’s efforts to rei ...

Dessalines, a former slave and Haiti’s new leader, replaced the French colonial “Saint- Domingue” with “Ayti” after the aborigin ...

world and its inhabitants.”^6 In this way, Trouillot highlights the beginning of what would continue to be Haiti’s immeasurable ...

ostracism.^8 Sybille Fischer, who references Trouillot’s arguments of silencing, expands such reflections to speak of a disavowa ...

turbulent nineteenth century and precede by nearly one hundred years any indigenous literature in the rest of the French Caribbe ...

revolutionary history and heroic celebrations. Munro, like Fischer, relies on previous criticism; he cites Jack Corzani and Ulri ...

movements. It goes without saying that for their evaluation, as for those of more recent critics like Fischer and Munro, misunde ...

radicalism of the 1930s should tempt us to look again at what has been stereotyped as an inauthentic, mimetic nineteenth century ...

in the nineteenth century constituted a deliberate practice in the construction, legitimization, and expression of national iden ...

awareness” which the word “classic” could not claim. It is poetry which is most associated with this new consciousness in France ...

who served under Henri Christophe, and Antoine Dupré and J.S. Milscent who wrote for Pétion. Poetry in both locales is largely k ...

locate than other Haitian texts. I have found no collections of poetry and only extremely limited biographical information about ...