Fictions of the Haitian Revolution
I created this website to act as a crossroads for literary fictions of the Haitian Revolution. By fictions, I mean texts that were composed as novels, short stories, novellas, short fictional sketches, poetry, and/or plays. When I was researching for my recently published book, Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865, I uncovered hundreds of such texts that had been published in the Atlantic World in the French, English, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, and German languages. My aim with this website is to continue the work that I began in Tropics of Haiti (which deals for the most part with works from nineteenth-century England, France, the United States, Germany, and Haiti) by publishing the first anthology of Haitian revolutionary fictions. With every new archive that I visit, I continue to uncover more and more fictions of the Haitian Revolution, and I'm hoping that by continuing to update the bibliography here I can crowd source even more fictions of the Haitian Revolution to be included in the anthology.
Update January 2022: Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology has been published with the University of Virginia Press! See more information below.
***Please don't forget to acknowledge this bibliography if this is where you first learned of a particular work about the Haitian Revolution***
Books:
Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (17 July 2015, Liverpool University Press, 692 pages)
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (26 October 2017, Palgrave Macmillan)
Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology (24 January 2022, University of Virginia Press), with Grégory Pierrot and Marion Rohrleitner.
Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (17 October 2023, University of North Carolina Press)
Digital Projects:
The Haitian Atlantic: A Literary Geography
The Royal Newspaper of Hayti (1807-1820): A Digital Journey Through Haiti's Early Print Culture