The Haitian Revolutionary Tragic
Peter Reed
University of Mississippi
Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, Peter Reed is the author of Rogue Performances (Palgrave, 2009) and essays on Atlantic minstrelsy, Caribbean performance, and the impact of the Haitian Revolution on American performance culture. His current project, Dancing on the Volcano, examines American culture’s fascination with Haiti and performances of race and revolution. Reed received his doctorate from Florida State University and is the past holder of research fellowships from the NEH, the American Antiquarian Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, Harvard’s Houghton Library, Yale’s Beinecke Library, and the Library of Congress.
Abstract
The panel will begin with Reed’s query: How did the Haitian Revolution come to be tragic and, by extension, remake notion of the tragic in the long nineteenth-century? Drawing on refugee accounts, novels and short stories,... [ view full abstract ]
Authors
- Peter Reed (University of Mississippi)
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Panel
Session
P91 » "Tragedy from Below": Tragic Climates in C19 (09:00 - Sunday, 25th March, Fiesta III-IV)
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