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All the ingredients to become the next important book in the field of postcolonial studies with the emphasis on French Caribbean culture and literature.Daniel Desormeaux, University of Chicago
In Free and French in the Caribbean, John Patrick Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aim Csaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the decolonializing of the French Caribbean: the revolution that freed the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1803 and the departmentalization of Martinique and other French colonies in 1946. Walsh emphasizes the connections between these events and the distinct legacies of emancipation in the narratives of revolution and nationhood passed on to successive generations. By reexamining Louverture and Csaire in light of their multilayered narratives, the book offers a deeper understanding of the historical and contemporary phenomenon of free and French in the Caribbean.
A fruitful intervention in a growing body of literature and increasingly lively debate on the Haitian Revolution and the figure of Toussaint Louverture, the book also contributes to the emerging scholarship on Csaire, Francophone literature, and postcolonial theory.Gary Wilder, CUNY Graduate Center
A valuable contribution to both the rapidly proliferating literature on the Haitian Revolution and the emerging revisionist appreciation of Csaires intellectual and political project.Small Axe
J.P. Walsh has produced for the nonspecialist reader an excellent analysis of the historiographical discourse on Toussaint Louverture and Aim Csaire with a focus on the meaning(s) of decolonization in the late eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.New West Indian Guide
That Free and French inspires so many questions is testament to its ambition, the provocative parallel at its heart, and the richness of Walshs analysis.H-Empire
In Free and French in the Caribbean, John Patrick Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aim Csaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the decolonializing of the French Caribbean: the revolution that freed the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1803 and the departmentalization of Martinique and other French colonies in 1946. Walsh emphasizes the connections between these events and the distinct legacies of emancipation in the narratives of revolution and nationhood passed on to successive generations. By reexamining Louverture and Csaire in light of their multilayered narratives, the book offers a deeper understanding of the historical and contemporary phenomenon of free and French in the Caribbean.
A fruitful intervention in a growing body of literature and increasingly lively debate on the Haitian Revolution and the figure of Toussaint Louverture, the book also contributes to the emerging scholarship on Csaire, Francophone literature, and postcolonial theory.Gary Wilder, CUNY Graduate Center
A valuable contribution to both the rapidly proliferating literature on the Haitian Revolution and the emerging revisionist appreciation of Csaires intellectual and political project.Small Axe
J.P. Walsh has produced for the nonspecialist reader an excellent analysis of the historiographical discourse on Toussaint Louverture and Aim Csaire with a focus on the meaning(s) of decolonization in the late eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.New West Indian Guide
That Free and French inspires so many questions is testament to its ambition, the provocative parallel at its heart, and the richness of Walshs analysis.H-Empire
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FREE AND FRENCH IN THE CARIBBEAN
BLACKS IN THE DIASPORA
Founding Editors
Darlene Clark Hine
John McCluskey, Jr.
David Barry Gaspar
Advisory Board
Herman L. Bennett
Kim D. Butler
Judith A. Byfield
Tracy Sharpley-Whiting
FREE AND FRENCH IN THE CARIBBEAN
Toussaint Louverture, Aim Csaire, and Narratives of Loyal Opposition
John Patrick Walsh
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Walsh, John Patrick, [date]
Free and French in the Caribbean : Toussaint Louverture, Aim Csaire, and narratives of loyal opposition / John Patrick Walsh.
page cm. (Blacks in the diaspora)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-253-00627-1 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-253-00630-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-253-00810-7 (ebook) 1. Toussaint Louverture, 17431803. 2. HaitiHistoryRevolution, 1791-1804. 3. NationalismHaitiHistory. 4. Csaire, Aim. 5. Martinican literature (French)History and criticism. 6. Caribbean, French-speakingHistoryAutonomy and independence movements. 7. NationalismCaribbean, French speakingHistory. 8. Decolonization in literature. 9. Nationalism in literature. I. Title.
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Je ne dirai pas que les faits ne sont rien. Sans eux il ny aurait pas dhistoire. Mais le plus important en histoire, ce ne sont pas les faits, ce sont les relations qui les unissent, la loi qui les rgit, la dialectique qui les suscite. Cest ce que, dans le cadre de mon sujet, jai tch de saisir.
[I will not say that facts are nothing. Without them there would be no history. But the most important in history is not the facts, it is the connections that bring them together, the law that governs them, the dialectic that stirs them up. This is what, in the framework of my topic, I have attempted to grasp.]
Aim Csaire, Toussaint Louverture: La Rvolution franaise et le problme colonial
Personne na mieux connu que Toussaint Louverture le thtre sur lequel il avait oprer, et le caractre des individus soumis sa jurisdiction.
[No one understood better than Toussaint Louverture the theater over which he had to operate and the character of the individuals subject to his jurisdiction.]
Pamphile de Lacroix, La Rvolution de Hati
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Acknowledgments
I am grateful to the many people who made this book possible. After years of graduate research on the history and literature of the French Caribbean, I arrived in Charleston for the fall semester 2007 and discovered its historical ties to Saint-Domingue. At the time, several institutions and communities were preparing to mark the bicentennial of the U. S. Abolition of the Slave Trade; the following summer, Toni Morrison came to Sullivans Island, the point of debarkation for millions of slaves, to commemorate her Bench by the Road project. I had recently read Csaires essay on Toussaint and decided to put aside another project to study the ties between the two men. My colleague Simon Lewis suggested that I locate Charleston not as a historical, southern city of the United States but as a northern port of a vast Atlantic and Caribbean economy. The director of the College of Charlestons program for the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World, where I had the privilege to present part of an early draft, Simon has been a key interlocutor throughout its writing.
I am indebted to the generations of scholars of the history and literature of Haiti and the French Caribbean. Over the course of my research, I had the great fortune to exchange ideas with a number of individuals who have inherited this legacy. Special mention must go to Bernadette Cailler, who encouraged me to continue work on Csaire. Nick Nesbitt and Deborah Jenson generously answered many queries. Daniel Desormeaux and Gary Wilder read the original book proposal with great care and made invaluable suggestions for the core argument and structure. Daniel also provided assistance in locating various copies of Toussaints memoir. I thank Jeremy Popkin and Franoise Vergs, who each read parts of the manuscript and gave direction at critical moments. Thank you to Aliko Songolo for including me in a panel on Csaire and to Cilas Kemedjio for his response to our panel. The final manuscript benefited greatly from the comments and questions of a team of readers. Thank you to Alex Crumbley, Lia Brozgal, Mylne Priam, Emily Beck, Tfo Attafi, Lisa Signori, and Morgan Koerner. These friends and colleagues made this a better book; any flaws are my own.
Several institutions and the people who animate them were essential to my research. I would like to thank the archivists at the Archives Nationales, in Paris, and the Archives Nationales dOutre-Mer, in Aix-en-Provence; Andr Elizee and the staff at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library; Susan Hamson and Tara Craig at the Butler Library of Columbia University; and the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. Outside of these archives, I could not have carried out research without the assistance of Michael Phillips and his team, especially Chris Nelson and Carolyn Savage, in the office of Interlibrary Loan at the College of Charlestons Addlestone Library.
I wish to thank Robert Sloan, Sarah Wyatt Swanson, and Tim Roberts of Indiana University Press for their help during the long transformation from manuscript to book. I am very appreciative of Sheila Bergs copyediting. I must also include four people who added their finishing touches to the book. Thank you to my brother, Kevin Walsh, for his editorial eye and for the index. Many thanks to Madison Smartt Bell, whose insight on the array of historical images of Toussaint was crucial to the likeness that adorns the books cover. I am grateful to Steve Johnson for his drawings of Toussaint and Csaire, and to Doug Bell, of Kitchen Sink Studios, for his design.
A version of , part of which appeared in volume 17, number 1 (2011).
I could not have undertaken research without the financial assistance of the College of Charleston. Two faculty research and development grants, as well as funds from the Department of French, Francophone and Italian Studies and the School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs, supported travel to various archives and allowed for the time necessary to complete the manuscript. I greatly appreciate the support of David Cohen, Shawn Morrison, Godwin Uwah, Robyn Holman, and Marilyn Tharp.
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