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- The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
- The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Burke and Kant on Color and Inheritance
- Chapter 2 Breathing Freedom in the Era of the Haitian Revolution
- Chapter 3 Afropessimism, Queer Negativity, and the Limits of Romanticism
- Chapter 4 Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Racial Imaginary
- Chapter 5 (Not)freedom
- Chapter 6 Disability and Race
- Chapter 7 The Crip Foundations of Romantic Medicine
- Chapter 8 The Voice of Complaint
- Chapter 9 Romantic Manscapes
- Chapter 10 Romantic Poetry and Constructions of Indigeneity
- Chapter 11 Romanticism and the Novel(ty) of Race
- Chapter 12 Reading Race Along the “Bounding Line”
- Chapter 13 The Racecraft of Romantic Stagecraft
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To Literature
Chapter 2 - Breathing Freedom in the Era of the Haitian Revolution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2024
- The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
- The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Burke and Kant on Color and Inheritance
- Chapter 2 Breathing Freedom in the Era of the Haitian Revolution
- Chapter 3 Afropessimism, Queer Negativity, and the Limits of Romanticism
- Chapter 4 Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Racial Imaginary
- Chapter 5 (Not)freedom
- Chapter 6 Disability and Race
- Chapter 7 The Crip Foundations of Romantic Medicine
- Chapter 8 The Voice of Complaint
- Chapter 9 Romantic Manscapes
- Chapter 10 Romantic Poetry and Constructions of Indigeneity
- Chapter 11 Romanticism and the Novel(ty) of Race
- Chapter 12 Reading Race Along the “Bounding Line”
- Chapter 13 The Racecraft of Romantic Stagecraft
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To Literature
Summary
Catherine Peters discusses how writers such as the Cuban poet Juan Francisco Manzano reworked the Romantic trope of the revolutionary “common wind” to forge kinship networks among forcibly displaced peoples. In formulating this argument, Peters shifts the conventional focus on the French Revolution as the hub of radical Romantic thought to the Haitian Revolution, where “fraternité” refers not to an abstract ideal but a very real desire to reconstitute those family relations disrupted by the institution of slavery.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race , pp. 22 - 36Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024