TY - BOOK AU - Stieber,Chelsea TI - Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954 T2 - America and the Long 19th Century SN - 9781479802166 AV - PQ3948.5.H2 S75 2021 U1 - 840.997294 23 PY - 2020///] CY - New York, NY PB - New York University Press KW - Black people KW - Haiti KW - Intellectual life KW - 19th century KW - Blacks-Haiti-Intellectual life-19th century KW - Haitian literature KW - History and criticism KW - Haitian literature-19th century-History and criticism KW - Radicalism in literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American KW - bisacsh KW - 1789 KW - Alexandre Pétion KW - Caribbean intellectuals KW - Dessalinean critique KW - Dominican Republic KW - Empire KW - Faustin Soulouque KW - Francophone literature KW - François Duvalier KW - Haitian independence KW - Haitian unification KW - Henry Christophe KW - Jean-Jacques Dessalines KW - Jean-Pierre Boyer KW - Liberal party KW - Literary magazine KW - Louis Joseph Janvier KW - Maurrassisme KW - National party KW - US occupation KW - Western episteme KW - Western modernity KW - allegory KW - authoritarianism KW - black radicalism KW - caricature KW - centennial KW - civil war KW - civilization KW - criticism KW - cultural nationalism KW - fascism KW - imperialism KW - indigénisme KW - liberal Enlightenment KW - liberalism KW - liberty KW - literature KW - pamphlet KW - paper war KW - peasant novel KW - performativity KW - post-independence Haiti KW - post-independence KW - postcolonial KW - print culture KW - refutation KW - republicanism KW - revolution KW - revue N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Note on Translation --; Introduction --; 1 Dessalines’s Empire of Liberty --; 2 Civil War, Guerre de Plume --; 3 Southern Republic of Letters --; 4 The Myth of the Universal Haitian Republic, or Deux Nations dans la Nation --; 5 The Second Empire of Haiti and the Exiled Republic --; 6 Nationals and Liberals, 1904/1906 --; 7 Haiti’s National Revolution --; Epilogue --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access N2 - 2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineTurns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nationPicking 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479802135.001.0001 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479802166 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479802166/original ER -