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Haiti - Literature : «Race, Religion, and The Haitian Revolution» 03/01/2013 09:20:20
Particular attention is given to the place of religion in this freedom story. The book not only examines the multiple legacies and the problem of Enlightenment modernity, imperial colonialism, Western racism and hegemony, but also studies their complex relationships with the institution of slavery, religion, and Black freedom. This present work is a collection of five interdisciplinary essays, which underscore the role of faith in Black Atlantic discourse and Haitian thought in shaping the lives of the people in the Black Diaspora and the Haitian people in particular. Topics range from Makandal’s Postcolonial religious imagination to Boukman’s Liberation Theology, Langston Hughes’ discussion of the role of prophetic religion in the Haitian Revolution to Frederick Douglass’ critiques of Christianity as a “slave religion;” the text also brings in conversation Du Bois’s theory of double consciousness with Fanon’s theory of decolonization and revolutionary humanism. The author explains " wrote these chapters of Race, Religion, and The Haitian Revolution to help my readers get a better understanding of the Haitian Revolution, the only successfully slave revolution in the Western World, and its significance and implications for contemporary discourses on Africana studies and Africana critical theory, human emancipation, human rights, social justice, social inequality, critical race theory, and the persistent problems of racism and neocolonial imperialism in our postcolonial moment. Equally, this book is an attempt to understand the function or place of religion in the unfolding events leading to the Haitian Revolution. As a scholar and interpreter of the human experience, I have sought to interpret the Haitian Revolution in its complexity as well as to engage the intersections of history, race, faith, freedom, and decolonization connecting to this singular and transforming event in our modern world, what we might call : Haitian Modernity." About the Author : Celucien L. Joseph, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Dallas) is an adjunct Professor of English Language and Literature at Palm Beach State College. Professor Joseph is an interdisciplinary scholar, researcher, and educator; his work is interdisciplinary and intersectional with an emancipative intent. He is interested in the intersections of history, race, religion, literature, cultural identity, and freedom. He is the author of two forthcoming books, Religious Métissage: The Religious Imagination and ideas of Jean Price-Mars (Wipf & Stock, 2013) and Faith, Secular Humanism, and Social Development: Jacques Roumain's Engagements with Religion and Critical Theory (University Press of America, Inc., 2013). His academic research and teaching interests include the following: Transnational Literature; American and African-American Literature; African American Cultural and Intellectual History;Francophone Studies: Africa and the Caribbean; Anglophone Caribbean Literature; Comparative Afro-Caribbean Studies: History and Literature; Comparative Literature of the African Diaspora; Black Internationalism; Postcolonial and Critical Theory; Race and Religion; Religions in the Black Diaspora; Pragmatic Religious Naturalism; Liberation and Constructive Theologies. To buy this book : www.amazon.com/Race-Religion-Haitian-Revolution-Decolonization/dp/1481859110/ref=la_B00ATZKOX4_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357171910&sr=1-1 HL/ HaitiLibre
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