From Louverture to Lenin: Aimé Césaire and the Problem of the Postcolonial State

From Louverture to Lenin: Aimé Césaire and the Problem of the Postcolonial State by bunnychow

'Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant' by Nick Nesbitt

Nick Nesbitt, Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant. Liverpool University Press, 2013. 346 pp. ISBN: 9781846318665.

Caribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from North Atlantic predecessors such as Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Sartre, was from the start indelibly marked by the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonialism.

Chapters and sections address figures such as Toussaint Louverture, Baron de Vastey, Victor Schoelcher, Aimé Césaire, René Ménil, Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé, and Edouard Glissant, while an extensive theoretical introduction defines the essential parameters of 'Caribbean Critique.'

Troping Toussaint, Reading Revolution

Troping Toussaint, Reading Revolution by TigersEye99

The Idea of 1804

Nesbitt Nick 2005 the Idea of 1804 by felix_fuhg

Turning the Tide: The Problem of Popular Insurgency in Haitian Revolutionary Historiography

by Nick Nesbitt, Small Axe, 27 • October 2008 • p 14–31

This article explores the conceptual problem of popular insurgency in Haitian revolutionary historiography. Framed by fundamental questions of legitimate versus illegitimate insurgency, of the relationship between the elites and the people, and of the process of democratization and the rule of law, the article argues that the problem of popular insurgency is one way to link together analysis of past and present Haitian history and to focus on the role of the Haitian people in making that history.

Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment

Unlike the American and French Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution was the first in a modern state to implement human rights universally and unconditionally. Going well beyond the selective emancipation of white adult male property owners, the Haitian Revolution is of vital importance, Nick Nesbitt argues, in thinking today about the urgent problems of social justice, human rights, imperialism, torture, and, above all, human freedom.

The Haitian Revolution

by Toussaint L'Ouverture
Edited by Nick Nesbitt
Introduction by Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Haiti’s ousted premier on the leader of the world’s first black republic.

Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrates L’Ouverture’s profound contribution to the struggle for equality