GOTH-NAR-HAITIAN-REV

"Transatlantic Politics of Horror and Terror in Gothic Narratives of the Haitian Revolution, 1791-2011"

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE    more  Organization address address: - city: PRESTON postcode: PR1 2HE contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Diane Cognome: Brewer Email: send email Telefono: 441773000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	299˙558 €
EC contributo	299˙558 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2014
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2014-04-01   -   2016-03-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE  Organization address address: - city: PRESTON postcode: PR1 2HE contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Diane Cognome: Brewer Email: send email Telefono: 441773000000	UK (PRESTON)	coordinator	299˙558.40

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Silenced in hegemonic historiography, the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was one of the key transformations of the Age of Revolution. As the first & only successful slave revolution & one of the first anti-colonial revolutions in modern history, it has mounted multiple challenges to the transatlantic colonial economy and hegemonic North Atlantic ideologies which continue to assume the cultural superiority of Europe & the USA. Through their double act of revolutionary self-emancipation from slavery and colonialism, the Afro-Caribbean slaves radicalised both the French Revolution & the European Enlightenment. For they challenged & extended the limited scope of Rights of Man as they exposed & removed its race and class limitations: a milestone towards universal human rights.

The interdisciplinary project aligns itself theoretically with (re)-appraisal of the centrality of the Haitian Revolution to transatlantic history and modernity, as it is displayed in the recent ‘Haitian Turn’ in transatlantic studies & by earlier radical black theorists and activist. It will trace the genealogy of the ‘Haitian Gothic’ in the transatlantic discourse from 1791 to the present. It understands it as a broader, powerful rhetorical-political mode that operates across a wide range of medial genres (literature, political articles, pamphlets, histories, visual representations e.g. caricatures & films). Its working hypothesis posits that the continuing ‘gothicisation’ of Haiti, its history & its people forms a reaction to the profound challenges that HR has posed to the hegemonic transatlantic political, economic and ideological (neo)-colonial order. It distinguishes between the ‘hegemonic Haitian Gothic’ that demonises Haiti & its revolution & the ‘radical Haitian Gothic’ that appropriates the Gothic to extol the radically emancipatory nature of the Haitian Revolution.

UCLAN with its world-class researchers in transatlantic studies (e.g. Prof. Rice) provides an ideal host institution.'