{"product_id":"modernity-disavowed-9780822332527","title":"Modernity Disavowed","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA study of the ways that knowledge of the slave revolt in Haiti was denied\/repressed\/disavowed within the network of slave-owning states and plantation societies of the New World, and the effects and meaning of this disavowal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Modernity Disavowed \u003c\/i\u003eis a superior work. It is not only important but also needed.”—Alicia Ríos, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Latin American Cultural Studies Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Modernity Disavowed\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force. This magnificent work is the best book on its subject and at the forefront of a new wave of scholarship that is already transforming both the study of the Caribbean and the study of modernity. I fully expect it to become a classic in its field.”—Lewis R. Gordon, author of \u003ci\u003eExistentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Tuncations of Modernity 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Cuba \u003cbr\u003e 1. The Deadly Hermenuetics of the Trial of Jose Antonio Aponte 41\u003cbr\u003e 2. Civilization and Barbarism: Cuban Wall Painting 57\u003cbr\u003e 3. Beyon National Culture, the Abject: The Case of Placido 77\u003cbr\u003e 4. Cuban Antislavery Narratives and the Origins of Literary Discourse 107\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Santo Domingo \/ The Dominican Republic \u003cbr\u003e 5. Memory, Trauma, History 131\u003cbr\u003e 6. Guilt and Betrayal in Santo Domingo 155\u003cbr\u003e 7. What Do the Haitians Want? 169\u003cbr\u003e 8. Fictions of Literary History 180\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Saint Domingue \/ Haiti \u003cbr\u003e 9. Literature and the Theater of Revolution 201\u003cbr\u003e 10. “General Liberty, or The Planters in Paris” 214\u003cbr\u003e 11. Foundational Fictions: Postrevolutionary Constitutions I 227\u003cbr\u003e 12. Life in the Kingdom of the North 245\u003cbr\u003e 13. Liberty and Reason of State: Postrevolutionary Constitutions II 260\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 273\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A. Imperial Constitution of Haiti 275\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B. Chronology 283\u003cbr\u003e Notes 287\u003cbr\u003e Index 355","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406034444631,"sku":"9780822332527","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modernity-disavowed-9780822332527","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}