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Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954 (America and the Long 19th Century Book 25) Kindle Edition

by Chelsea Stieber (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Part of: America and the Long 19th Century (28 books)

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2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation

Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti’s post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic. What transpired was a war of swords and of pens, waged in newspapers and periodicals, in literature, broadsheets, and fliers. In her analysis of Haitian writing that followed independence, Stieber composes a new literary history of Haiti, that challenges our interpretations of both freedom struggles and the postcolonial. By examining internal dissent during the revolution, Stieber reveals that the very concept of freedom was itself hotly contested in the public sphere, and it was this inherent tension that became the central battleground for the guerre de plume—the paper war—that vied to shape public sentiment and the very idea of Haiti.

Stieber’s reading of post-independence Haitian writing reveals key insights into the nature of literature, its relation to freedom and politics, and how fraught and politically loaded the concepts of “literature” and “civilization” really are. The competing ideas of liberté, writing, and civilization at work within postcolonial Haiti have consequences for the way we think about Haiti’s role—as an idea and a discursive interlocutor—in the elaboration of black radicalism and black Atlantic, anticolonial, and decolonial thought. In so doing, Stieber reorders our previously homogeneous view of Haiti, teasing out warring conceptions of the new nation that continued to play out deep into the twentieth century.

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"An extraordinary work of revisionist Haitian historiography that offers us an incredible challenge: Chelsea Stieber’s intervention of the ‘paper war’ forces us to reconsider how the study of literature, and the very nature of critique, must remain central to our understandings of empire and abolition. With great aplomb, Haiti’s Paper War powerfully upends the very myth of the Haitian Revolution’s singularity." -- Jeremy Matthew Glick, author of The Black Radical Tragic

"Chelsea Stieber recovers the diverse landscape of political thought that developed in the postindependence era and persisted well into the 20th century. In doing so, Stieber’s carefully argued scholarship provides necessary nuance to our understandings of the internal dynamics of Haitian history and the manifold implications of Haiti’s political significance to the world." ― Public Books

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Writing in the precise, evocative language of a masterful chronicler, Stieber examines Haiti’s volatile post-independence struggles in governing. What makes this study particularly significant, and singular, is Stieber’s exhaustive examination of primary source material ... Through her critical analyses of writing as a tool to shape a nation, Stieber unveils the multilayered meanings of liberté that defined Haiti from its declaration of independence in 1804 to the mid-20th century. Essential.

" ― Choice

"Writing in the precise, evocative language of a masterful chronicler, Stieber examines Haiti’s volatile post-independence struggles in governing ... What makes this study particularly significant, and singular, is Stieber’s exhaustive examination of primary source material ... Essential." ― Choice

"Chelsea Stieber presents a powerful and cogently argued account of the crucial role of literary writing in shaping the independent nation of Haiti following the Haitian Revolution. Haiti’s Paper War has significant ramifications for the larger field of literary and postcolonial studies― it speaks to the political work that informs the emergence of the ‘literary’ as a category. Stieber’s contribution is masterfully argued, relentlessly sharp, and insightful. A groundbreaking work." -- Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, author of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649–1849

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A formidable study of Haiti’s political and literary evolution over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

" -- Kaiama L. Glover, Barnard College ― H-France Review

About the Author

Chelsea Stieber is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the Catholic University of America. She is co-editor of the forthcoming critical translation Haiti for the Haitians and a 2020 ACLS Fellow.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07ZKY9FYB
Publisher ‏ : ‎ NYU Press (August 18, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 18, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2851 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 379 pages

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- #769 in Caribbean & Latin American Literary Criticism (Books)

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Chelsea Stieber is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. She received my PhD jointly from the Department of French and Institute of French Studies at New York University in 2013.

Her book, Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954 (NYU Press, 2020) explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti's post-independence sovereignty. Her analysis of Haitian writing that followed independence offers a new literary history of Haiti, that challenges our interpretations of both freedom struggles and the postcolonial. Research for this project was made possible in part by a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress.

She is currently a 2020 ACLS Fellow for my new project, Caribbean Fascism: Antiliberalism and Integralism in the Twentieth Century. She serves as the director of the digital humanities project the RSHHGG Lab and has authored and co-authored numerous articles and essays.