{"product_id":"the-colonial-system-unveiled-9781781383049","title":"The Colonial System Unveiled","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong neglected in mainstream history books, the Haitian Revolution     (1791–1804) is now being claimed across a range of academic disciplines as     an event of world-historical importance. The former slaves’ victory over     their French masters and the creation of the independent nation of Haiti in     1804 is being newly heralded not only as a seminal moment in the     transnational formation of the ‘black Atlantic’ but as the most     far-reaching manifestation of ‘Radical Enlightenment’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     The best known Haitian writer to emerge in the years after the revolution     is Baron de Vastey (1781–1820), who authored over ten books and pamphlets     between 1814 and his murder in 1820. His first and most incendiary work, Le     système colonial dévoilé (1814), provides a moving invocation of the     horrors of slavery in pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue. Its trailblazing     critique of colonialism anticipates by over a hundred years the     anticolonial politics (and poetics) of Césaire, Fanon, and Sartre.     \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Translated here for the first time, Vastey’s forceful unveiling of the     colonial system will be compulsory reading for scholars across the     humanities.\u003cbr\u003e     \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews 'In this first-rate critical edition, Bongie illuminates the significance of Baron de Vastey’s Le système colonial dévoilé well beyond the field of Haitian Studies. Indeed, he argues that The Colonial System Unveiled “can legitimately be considered the first systemic critique of colonialism ever written, certainly from the perspective of a colonized subject”. With the book now available in English for the first time, many new readers will be amply persuaded.'\u003cbr\u003e Ada Ferrer, New York University\u003cbr\u003e'The volume performs the great service of renewing attention to the remarkable and little understood figure of Vastey, and more broadly to the need for further research on a less well-known period of the Haitian revolutionary era.'\u003cbr\u003e John Savage and Sean Anderson, \u003ci\u003eH-France Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The volume performs the great service of renewing attention to the remarkable and little understood figure of Vastey, and more broadly to the need for further research on a less well-known period of the Haitian revolutionary era. ...This volume holds great interest not only for specialists of the Haitian Revolution, French Empire, or Atlantic World slavery, but also for scholars of transhistorical African Diaspora studies and a broader postcolonial intellectual history.'\u003cbr\u003e John Savage and Sean Anderson, Lehigh University, \u003ci\u003eH-France Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface: Baron de Vastey and Post\/Revolutionary Haiti\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJean Louis Vastey (1781–1820): A Biographical Sketch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. 1820: Death of a Scribe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. 1814: The Colonial System Restored\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. 1814–2014: Reading the Protean Text\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Colonial System Unveiled\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes to The Colonial System Unveiled\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSupplementary Essays:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Marlene Daut – ‘Monstrous Testimony: Baron de Vastey and the Politics of Black Memory’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Doris Garraway – ‘Abolition, Sentiment, and the Problem of Agency in Le système colonial dévoilé’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Chris Bongie – ‘Memories of Development: Le système colonial dévoilé and the Performance of Literacy’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Nick Nesbitt – ‘Afterword: Vastey and the System of Colonial Violence’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50469968904535,"sku":"9781781383049","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781781383049.jpg?v=1744896969","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-colonial-system-unveiled-9781781383049","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}