Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution History & Film Studies including nature of reality

including nature of reality

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780062570666

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Twitty tells his family story through the foods that enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries

Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution History & Film Studies including nature of realityModernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (17911804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this seminal event have been suppressed and ignored in historical and cultural records over the past two hundred years, Sibylle Fischer contends that revolutionary antislavery and its subsequent disavowal are central to the formation and understanding of Western