Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism 2017 Edition Contributor(s): Daut, Marlene L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349693766 ISBN-13: 9781349693764 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $31.34 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 18th Century - History - Political Science | Imperialism |
Dewey: 809 |
Series: New Urban Atlantic |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.8" W x 7.8" (0.70 lbs) 244 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
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Publisher Description: Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey's extensive writings as a form of what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse devoted to attacking the enlightenment foundations of colonialism. Daut argues that Vastey, the most important secretary of Haiti's King Henry Christophe, was a pioneer in a tradition of deconstructing colonial racism and colonial slavery that is much more closely associated with twentieth-century writers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Aim C saire. By expertly forging exciting new historical and theoretical connections among Vastey and these later twentieth-century writers, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black Atlantic authors, such as Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs, Daut proves that any understanding of the genesis of Afro-diasporic thought must include Haiti's Baron de Vastey.
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