The Haitian Revolution, the Harlem Renaissance, and Caribbean Négritude

Tammie Jenkins

doi:10.5771/9781793633798

Summary

In The Haitian Revolution, the Harlem Renaissance, and Caribbean Negritude: Overlapping Discourses of Freedom and Identity, Tammie Jenkins argues that the ideas of freedom and identity cultivated during the Haitian Revolution were reinvigorated in Harlem Renaissance texts and were instrumental in the development of Caribbean Negritude. Jenkins analyzes the precipitating events that contributed to the Haitian Revolution and connects them to Harlem Renaissance publications by Eric D. Walrond and Joel Augustus “J.A.” Rogers. Jenkins traces these movements to Paris where black American expatriates, Harlem Renaissance members, and Francophones from Africa and the Caribbean met once a week at Le Salon Clamart to share their lived experiences with racism, oppression, and disenfranchisement in their home countries. Using these dialogical exchanges, Jenkins investigates how the Haitian Revolution and Harlem Renaissance tenets influence the modernization of Caribbean Negritude's development.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-3378-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-3379-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 150
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Castes, Labels, and Race Relations No access
2. Prelude to Understanding a Revolution No access
3. Walking with the Ancestors No access
4. Visiting Spaces Inhabited by Others No access
5. Notes No access
1. Slavery, Colonization, and France’s Code Noir (1685) No access
2. Grassroots Rebellions and Urban Insurgences No access
3. Deeper Meanings . . . Spoken and Unspoken No access
4. Haiti’s Narratives Travel to Harlem No access
5. Notes No access
1. Caribbean Immigrants in New York and the New Negro Movement No access
2. Caribbean Blackness in the Harlem Renaissance No access
3. Walrond’s Tropic Death No access
4. Rogers and From Superman to Man No access
5. Emerging Full Circle No access
6. Notes No access
1. Caribbean Négritude in Haiti and the United States Military Occupation No access
2. Shouts for Freedom and Identity No access
3. Reawakening Literary Uprising No access
4. Jean Price-Mars and Ainsi Parla l’Oncle No access
5. Jacques Roumain’s Gouverneurs de la Rosée No access
6. From Haiti to Harlem and Back to Haiti No access
7. Notes No access
1. Literature Review Revisited No access
2. Haitian Rebels, Harlem Writers, Caribbean Literary Reimaginings No access
3. Moving Ahead after Looking Back No access
4. Epilogue: In through an Exit Door No access
5. Suggestions for Further Research No access
6. Notes No access
Appendix: Further Readings No access Pages 135 - 136
Bibliography No access Pages 137 - 146
Index No access Pages 147 - 148
About the Author No access Pages 149 - 150