Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism Hardback
by Marlene L. Daut
Part of the The New Urban Atlantic series
Hardback
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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 Vastey's 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 Haiti's 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 Aime Cesaire. 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 Haiti's Baron de Vastey.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:244 pages, 8 Illustrations, black and white; XL, 244 p. 8 illus.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:31/10/2017
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- ISBN:9781137479693
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:244 pages, 8 Illustrations, black and white; XL, 244 p. 8 illus.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:31/10/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781137479693
