Yale French Studies, Number 107: The Haiti Issue: 1804 and Nineteenth-Century French Studies

By Albert Valdman and Christopher L. Miller

Deborah Jenson
Editor's Preface

Nick Nesbitt
The Idea of 1804

Christopher L. Miller
Forget Haiti: Baron Roger and The New Africa

Chris Bongie
"Monotonies of History" Baron Vastey and the Mulatto Legend of Derek Walcott's Haitian Trilogy

Doris Kadish
Haiti and Abolitionism in 1825: The Example of Sophie Doin

David F. Bell
Technologies of Speed, Technologies of Crime

Uri Eisenzweig
Violence Untold: The Birth of a Modern Fascination

Dominique Kalifa
Criminal Investigators at the Fin-de-si cle

Andrea Goulet
Curiosity Killer's Instinct: Bibliophilia and the Myth of the Rational Detective

Nanette Fornabai
Criminal Factors: Fant mas, Anthropometrics, and the Numerical Fictions of Modern Criminal Identity

Tom Gunning
Lynx-Eyed Detectives and Shadow Bandits: Visuality and Eclipse in French Detective
Stories and Films before WWI

Daniel Desormeaux
The First of the (Black) Memorialists: Toussaint Louverture

Albert Valdman
Haitian Creole at the Dawn of Independence

Deborah Jenson
From the Kidnapping(s) of the Louvertures to the Alleged Kidnapping of Aristide: Legacies of Slavery in the Post/Colonial World

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300108117
• ISBN13: 9780300108118
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.1"