bokomslag Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
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Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism

Marlene L Daut

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  • 244 sidor
  • 2019
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 Vasteys 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 Haitis 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 Csaire. 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 Haitis Baron de Vastey.
  • Författare: Marlene L Daut
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781349693764
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 244
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-03-12
  • Förlag: Palgrave Macmillan