African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
331 p., Partly autobiographical, this novel looks at the racial politics of the 1950s and 1960s. Ramsay Tull is witness to the black racial discontents and the desire for national independence that are threatening the old colonial order; but when a chance comes to study at Oxford University, he becomes immersed in European literary culture and Marxism. On his return to Jamaica, Ramsay becomes actively involved in radical nationalist politics and begins his second journey, away from his middle-class origins and back to a true appreciation of the Jamaican people.
Geggus,David P. (Author) and Fiering,Norman (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
419 p, Contents: Saint-Domingue on the eve of the Haitian Revolution /; David Geggus --; Vestiges of the built landscape of pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue /; Jacques de Cauna --; Saint-Domingue's free people of color and the tools of revolution /; John D. Garrigus --; On the road to citizenship : the complex route to integration of the free people of color in the two capitals of Saint-Domingue /; Dominique Rogers --; The trans-Atlantic king and imperial public spheres : everyday politics in pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue /; Gene E. Ogle --; The insurgents of 1791, their leaders, and the concept of independence /; Yves Benot --; Avenging America : the politics of violence in the Haitian Revolution /; Laurent Dubois --; "Fêtes de l'hymen, fêtes de la liberté" : marriage, manhood, and emancipation in revolutionary Saint-Domingue /; Elizabeth Colwill --; "The colonial vendée" /; Malick Ghachem --; The Saint-Domingue slave revolution and the unfolding of independence, 1791-1804 /; Carolyn E. Fick --; The French Revolution's other island /; Jeremy D. Popkin --; Speaking of Haiti : slavery, revolution, and freedom in Cuban slave testimony /; Ada Ferrer --; The Saint-Dominguan refugees and American distinctiveness in the early years of the Haitian Revolution /; Ashli White --; "Free upon higher ground" : Saint-Domingue slaves' suits for freedom in U.S. courts, 1792-1830 /; Sue Peabody --; Repercussions of the Haitian Revolution in Brazil, 1791-1850 /; Joao José Reis and Flavio dos Santos Gomes --; The specter of Saint-Domingue : American and French reactions to the Haitian Revolution /; Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall --; Representations of the Haitian Revolution in French literature /; Léon-François Hoffmann --; Neoclassicism and the Haitian Revolution /; Carlo Céliu
