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Popular Currency: Imag(in)ing Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution

Popular Currency: Imag(in)ing Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution

Publié le par Stéphane Martelly (Source : Balzac-L / Francomonde)

Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 15-17, 2004
Popular Currency: Imag(in)ing Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution


 


In commemoration of the 200-year anniversary of Haitian Independence, this panel wishes to address the circulation of images of the Haitian Revolution and/or of one of its most (in)famous representatives, Toussaint Louverture, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and across a variety of literary genres and media. One of the general questions to be considered is how these images are appropriated and deployed to meet specific ends, i.e., (anti- and/or pro- abolitionist, feminist, nationalist, colonialist, postcolonialist, etc.), and, further, how they both are transformed by and inform the particular historical moment in which they are conceived. While each paper should address primarily French and francophone materials, comparative approaches (i.e., anglo- or hispanophone) are also welcome. Possible subjects may include but are not limited to:
--Toussaint Louverture/the Haitian Revolution in the works of women authors.
--Toussaint Louverture/the Haitian Revolution in the romantic imagination.
--Toussaint Louverture/the Haitian Revolution in film.
-- Toussaint Louverture/the Haitian Revolution in the writings of (those deemed) colonial (or postcolonial) subjects.
--Toussaint Louverture/the Haitian Revolution in abolitionist writings.
--the specificity of these images in colonial and postcolonial texts.
--a comparison of these images from the perspective of the métropole vs. that of the colonies.
--the appropriation of these images for nation-building projects.
--Toussaint Louverture in his own words and in the words of others.
Please submit one-page abstracts to Daniel Desormeaux (ddd@uky.edu) Adrianna Paliyenko (ampaliye@colby.edu) by November 20, 2003. Please note that panel presentations must not exceed 20 minutes, and that we
would like to have copies of the completed papers no later than one week before the conference.