Friends and Enemies: The Scribal Politics of Post/Colonial Literature

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Preface and Acknowledgements: Entrances Introduction: Literature, Politics and Memory Part One- Humanitarian Interventions: The Haitian Revolution in Translation, 1793-1833 Incursion I France and Haiti, 1804-2004: Postimperial Melancholy, 'New Humanist' Elation 1. 'The Friend of Equality': Terror and Forgetting in the Novels of Jean-Baptiste Picquenard 2. ' The Cause of Humanity': Victor Hugo's 'Bug-Jargal' and the Limits of Liberal Translation Part Two - Between Memory and Nostalgia# Commemorating Post/Colonialism, 1998-2004 Incursion II 3. 'Chroniques de la francophonie triomphante': The Dutiful Memories of Regis Debray 4. A Street Named Bissette: Assimilating the 'Cent-cinquantenaire' of the Abolition of Slavery in Martinique (1848-1998) 5. 'Monotonies of History': Baron de Vastey and the Mulatto Legend of Derek Walcott's Haitian Trilogy Part Three - Exiles on Main Stream: Browsing the Franco-Caribbean Canon Incursion III Futures Past? David Scott's Black Jacobins and the Dead End Of Cultural Politics 6. Withering Heights: Marayse Conde and the Postcolonial Middlebrow 7. Spectres of Glissant: Dealing in Relation Bibliography Index

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