![]() ![]() Avengers of the New World joins that select company. ![]() “There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of books about the Haitian Revolution, but only a handful are indispensable. “Laurent Dubois’s patient study offers a valuable glimpse into the complexities of the creation of modern Haiti that supplants the usual commonplaces on this ‘first black republic.’ ” -Nick Caistor, Times Literary Supplement “ sinuous and stirring account of ‘the largest slave revolt in the history of the world, and the only one that succeeded.’ ” -John Leonard, Harper’s ” -Amy Wilentz, Los Angeles Times Book Review Indeed, Dubois’ literary sensibility informs the book from start to finish, so that at its beginning as well as its end, the reader feels as if the story must be fiction, yet it is not… Dubois calls Haiti a nation ‘founded on ashes,’ and he has written splendidly about the fires, both political and cultural, that lit up the land during the days of revolution and that are still, in a sense, burning today. ![]() His discussions of interracial love affairs and the attitudes of slaves both toward death among slaves and toward death among masters are riveting and eloquent. And it is this whirling and chaotic world that Dubois so vividly brings to life in Avengers of the New World and so accurately deconstructs… Dubois starts this book about war with chapters about love, death, books and graveyards. “A stern and brilliant new book… The Haitian Revolution, in all its ugliness and brutality, was the response of the oppressed, indentured and enslaved to their unjust condition. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |