Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: New World Studies
The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: New World Studies
ISBN: 978-0-8139-3893-6
Verlag: University of Virginia Press
The occupation was a generative event for Caribbean activists such as C. L. R. James, George Padmore, and Marcus and Amy Jacques Garvey as well as for writers such as Claude McKay, Eric Walrond, and Alejo Carpentier. Dalleo provides new ways of understanding these luminaries, while also showing how other important figures such as Aimé Césaire, Arturo Schomburg, Claudia Jones, Frantz Fanon, Amy Ashwood Garvey, H. G. De Lisser, Luis Palés Matos, George Lamming, and Jean Rhys can be contextualized in terms of the occupation. By examining Caribbean responses to Haiti’s occupation, Dalleo underscores U.S. imperialism as a crucial if unspoken influence on anticolonial discourses and decolonization in the region. Without acknowledging the significance of the occupation of Haiti, our understanding of Atlantic history cannot be complete.