ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
OPEN LETTER TO THE HAITIANS OF 2004
René Depestre
HAÏTI CHIMÈRE: REVOLUTIONARY UNIVERSALISM AND ITS CARIBBEAN CONTEXT
J. Michael Dash
PETRIFYING MYTHS: LACK AND EXCESS IN CARIBBEAN AND HAITIAN HISTORIES
Martin Munro
LAHENS’S REVOLUTION, OR THE WORDS WITHIN
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
EDWIDGE DANTICAT’S THE FARMING OF BONES: TRAUMATIC MEMORIES AND THE TRANSLUCENT NARRATOR
Mireille Rosello
THEORIES OF “RACE” AND THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION
Georges Fouron
ANTÉNOR FIRMIN: HIS LEGACY AND CONTINUING RELEVANCE
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
RE-CREOLIZING SWING: ST DOMINGUE REFUGEES IN THE GOVI OF NEW ORLEANS
Keith Cartwright
HAITI AND THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRINIDAD
Bridget Brereton
THE TRAVELLING REVOLUTIONARY: SITUATING TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE
Charles Forsdick
WHAT CAN TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE DO FOR THE HAITIANS OF 2004?
René Depestre
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