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AB -  online book reviews The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints. By Philip Kaisary. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2014. xii + 237 pp. Paperback $29.50. Much of the attention Haiti has received in the last decade from English-language scholars has focused on the impact of the Haitian Revolution and its immediate aftermath on the cultures of the Atlantic world. Fewer have explored the influence of the event on Atlantic culture and politics in the twentieth century. Philip Kaisary's book is one such contribution to a fuller assessment of the place Haiti occupies in Western culture at large. In his study of the use of the Haitian Revolution in works by an international cast of twentieth-century artists--most of them writers, but also two visual artists--Kaisary is interested in the ways in which "artists and intellectuals have metamorphosed and appropriated this spectacular corner of black revolutionary history" (3). The book's subtitle announces its organizing logic: in Part One, Kaisary discusses works of "radical restoration of Haitian history . . . in which black agency and universal intent were central," namely Martinican Aimé Césaire's poem Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, and play La tragédie du 
TI - The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints by Philip Kaisary (review)
JF - Comparative Literature Studies
DA - 2015-12-14
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/penn-state-university-press/the-haitian-revolution-in-the-literary-imagination-radical-horizons-eSJTSbEtZE
SP - e-1
EP - e-3
VL - 52
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -