Haiti Fights Back
The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte
Seiten
2021
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-1541-4 (ISBN)
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-1541-4 (ISBN)
Selected as a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021
Provides the first US scholarly examination of the politician and caco leader (guerrilla fighter) Charlemagne Peralte, who fought against the US military occupation of Haiti. Alexis argues for the importance of documenting resistance while exploring the occupation's mechanics and its imperialism.
Winner of the 2021 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize
Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte is the first US scholarly examination of the politician and caco leader (guerrilla fighter) who fought against the US military occupation of Haiti. The occupation lasted close to two decades, from 1915-1934. Alexis argues for the importance of documenting resistance while exploring the occupation’s mechanics and its imperialism. She takes us to Haiti, exploring the sites of what she labels as resistance zones, including Péralte’s hometown of Hinche and the nation’s large port areas--Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haïtien. Alexis offers a new reading of U.S. military archival sources that record Haitian protests as banditry. Haiti Fights Back illuminates how Péralte launched a political movement, and meticulously captures how Haitian women and men resisted occupation through silence, military battles, and writings. She locates and assembles rare, multilingual primary sources from traditional repositories, living archives (oral stories), and artistic representations in Haiti and the United States. The interdisciplinary work draws on legislation, cacos’ letters, newspapers, and murals, offering a unique examination of Péralte’s life (1885-1919) and the significance of his legacy through the twenty-first century. Haiti Fights Back offers a new approach to the study of the U.S. invasion of the Americas by chronicling how Caribbean people fought back.
Provides the first US scholarly examination of the politician and caco leader (guerrilla fighter) Charlemagne Peralte, who fought against the US military occupation of Haiti. Alexis argues for the importance of documenting resistance while exploring the occupation's mechanics and its imperialism.
Winner of the 2021 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize
Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte is the first US scholarly examination of the politician and caco leader (guerrilla fighter) who fought against the US military occupation of Haiti. The occupation lasted close to two decades, from 1915-1934. Alexis argues for the importance of documenting resistance while exploring the occupation’s mechanics and its imperialism. She takes us to Haiti, exploring the sites of what she labels as resistance zones, including Péralte’s hometown of Hinche and the nation’s large port areas--Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haïtien. Alexis offers a new reading of U.S. military archival sources that record Haitian protests as banditry. Haiti Fights Back illuminates how Péralte launched a political movement, and meticulously captures how Haitian women and men resisted occupation through silence, military battles, and writings. She locates and assembles rare, multilingual primary sources from traditional repositories, living archives (oral stories), and artistic representations in Haiti and the United States. The interdisciplinary work draws on legislation, cacos’ letters, newspapers, and murals, offering a unique examination of Péralte’s life (1885-1919) and the significance of his legacy through the twenty-first century. Haiti Fights Back offers a new approach to the study of the U.S. invasion of the Americas by chronicling how Caribbean people fought back.
YVELINE ALEXIS is an associate professor of history at Oberlin College in Ohio.
List of Illustrations (Ilistrasyon)
Introduction: Haiti Fights (Ayiti Goumen)
1 Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity/Humanity (Libète, Egalité, ak Fratènite/Imanite)
2 U.S. Invasion (Envazyon Etazini)
3 Haitians—Rise and Defend! (Ayisien(ne)—Leve epi defann!)
4 Péralte Leads (Péralte kòm Lidè)
5 Violence (Vyolans)
6 We’re Still Fighting (Nou Toujou ap Goumen)
7 Second Revolution (Dezyèm Revolisyon)
8 Péralte Resurrected (Péralte Resisite)
9 Liberation with Péralte (Liberasyon ak Péralte)
10 Péralte Will Never Die; He Remains Alive in Popular Memory (Péralte p’ap janm mouri; li rete vivan nan memwa popilè)
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 11.06.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 12 b-w images, 1 table |
Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 29 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
ISBN-10 | 1-9788-1541-7 / 1978815417 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-9788-1541-4 / 9781978815414 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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