Description
Deborah Jenson
Editor’s Preface
Nick Nesbitt
The Concept of 1804
Christopher L. Miller
Forget Haiti: Baron Roger and The New Africa
Chris Bongie
“Monotonies of Historical past”: Baron Vastey and the Mulatto Legend of Derek Walcott’s Haitian Trilogy
Doris Kadish
Haiti and Abolitionism in 1825: The Instance of Sophie Doin
David F. Bell
Technologies of Speed, Technologies of Crime
Uri Eisenzweig
Violence Untold: The Birth of a Up to date Fascination
Dominique Kalifa
Criminal Investigators on the Fin-de-siècle
Andrea Goulet
Curiosity Killer’s Instinct: Bibliophilia and the Myth of the Rational Detective
Nanette Fornabai
Criminal Components: Fantômas, Anthropometrics, and the Numerical Fictions of Up to date Legal Identity
Tom Gunning
Lynx-Eyed Detectives and Shadow Bandits: Visuality and Eclipse in French Detective
Stories and Motion pictures before WWI
Daniel Desormeaux
The First of the (Black) Memorialists: Toussaint Louverture
Albert Valdman
Haitian Creole on the Crack of dawn of Independence
Deborah Jenson
From the Kidnapping(s) of the Louvertures to the Alleged Kidnapping of Aristide: Legacies of Slavery within the Post/Colonial World