Poetry of Revolution: Romanticism and National Projects
still itself a minor exporter of cotton, to alter the power structures of economic inequality and international exploitation. Th ...
discrepancy between rhetoric and reality, and the hypocrisy in proclaiming liberty while displaying such hostility to its Caribb ...
engineers, scientists, and industrialists.^282 Coicou, however, lamented the decline of the arts at the expense of technological ...
4.3.3 Civil wars Several of Coicou’s poems foreground Haiti’s civil strife as also threatening to Haiti’s survival, in terms of ...
One incident in particular involved the British ship, “Bull-dog,” an incident which is no different, the poet stresses, than the ...
are used to substantiate racist claims about Haiti’s inability to self-govern. The stakes are high, as the future of an entire r ...
have termed a civil war from 1888-1889. The black general Légitime was briefly president until another member of Haiti’s emergin ...
question of how to connect to Haiti’s past and imagine Haiti’s future is posed from the outset: “Mais où donc allons-nous? ....” ...
undercurrent throughout his collection is the inseparable “Dieu, ma Patrie, et ma Race!”/Trois cultes éternels que j’aime plus q ...
A Haitian audience would have been familiar with this episode, one of the most infamous accounts of colonial brutality in Saint ...
written judgment had decreed that they were to be executed on the side of the square opposite to that where whites were executed ...
Qu’il meure ainsi! (47-48, 52-54) In light of these descriptions, the Ogé/Chavannes incident is the first in a series, a prelude ...
of these past episodes would serve to forge present unity among the different color, social, and economic factions in Haitian so ...
supplice du noir,” the future, beyond the Haitian Revolution, also belongs to the “nègre” with no mulatto/black distinctions. In ...
sown in Haiti’s colonial past, to refute pervasive racism in Coicou’s time, and to combat internal struggles. Although correlati ...
in spite of this failure is one of the great paradoxes of his work. If we return one final time to “Cauchemar”, we see that as i ...
Le soleil qui se couche est jaloux de l’éclat De la lune limpide et calme qui se lève; [...] Et puis, comme daigner nous tendre ...
Napoleonic forces by including Toussaint’s legendary quote: “in uprooting me you have cut off the trunk of the tree of liberty f ...
L’hydre qui renaissait sur sa base d’airain; Il fallait étouffer dans l’œuf Dix-huit cent quatre, Que couvait ardemment le génie ...
The drowning of slaves that is mentioned as one of many torturous methods of execution becomes the entire subject in the second ...
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