Description: A reconsideration of the Haitian Revolution and its valorization by non-Haitian writers
Review Quotes:
"Léger offers a masterful rethinking of Caribbean literary memory and its silences. Through a decolonial lens, she argues that canonical twentieth-century writers--CLR James, Aimé Césaire, Alejo Carpentier, Derek Walcott, and Édouard Glissant--rendered Africa invisible in their celebrated representations of the Haitian Revolution. In response, Léger recovers the radical intellectual traditions of Ayiti Ginen, revealing forms of revolutionary thought that have too often remained unseen."
--Marlene L. Daut, author of The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe