DSIRE CONGO : Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French

A novel set in the final years of the Haitian Revolution at the dawn of the nineteenth century. Trouillot constructs an intricate narrative web from the varied experiences of freedmen and -women, maroons, enslaved African people and their Creole children, and French planters and white smallholders in colonial Saint-Domingue at the time of the last confrontations between the Haitian revolutionaries and Napoleon's imperial forces - a conflict that resulted in the success of the largest slave revolt in recorded history and the independence of the first Black state in the Western hemisphere--

• | Author: Évelyne Trouillot
• | Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 23, 2024
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0813952115
• | ISBN-13: 9780813952116