{"id":1374,"date":"2013-06-15T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/06\/rhetoric-race-and-haitian-thought.html"},"modified":"2013-06-15T07:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T07:40:00","slug":"rhetoric-race-and-haitian-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/06\/rhetoric-race-and-haitian-thought.html","title":{"rendered":"Rhetoric Race and Haitian Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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by Celucien Jospeh<\/a><\/span>
R3 Contributor<\/span><\/p>\n

I would like to inform you about my new book,\u00a0From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought\u00a0<\/a>(2013). It is now available on Amazon or\u00a0Create Space<\/a>\u00a0for purchase.<\/span><\/div>\n

In From Toussaint to\u00a0Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought<\/em>, I engage Haiti\u2019s intellectual history by focusing on the ideas and writings of Haiti\u2019s four most important thinkers and writers: Toussaint Louverture, Joseph Antenor Firmin, Jacques Roumain, and Jean Price-Mars\u2014ranging from the eighteenth to the twentieth-century. The basic argument I articulate in this text is that Haiti has produced a strong intellectual tradition from the revolutionary era to the postcolonial present, and that Haitian thought has not been homogeneous or unevolved\u2014whether the subject might be history, religion, race, literature, or culture. Hence, the book explores the rich diversity of Haitian intellectual history with regard to its cross-disciplinary and intersectional content.<\/span><\/div>\n
By carefully examining the ideas of Toussaint, Firmin, Roumain, and Price-Mars, I contend that the general interweaving themes of rhetoric, the race concept, race vindication, universal emancipation, religious unorthodoxy, secular humanism, the particular, the universal, and cosmopolitanism are representative of Haiti\u2019s intellectual tradition. Haitian intellectuals and writers have almost never separated these prevalent motifs from each other and in their work.<\/span><\/div>\n
Correspondingly, From Toussaint to Price-Mars<\/i> is a work on history of ideas and an attempt to grasp the intersections of rhetoric, religious ideas, race, and secular humanism in Haiti\u2019s intellectual history, as well as the various ways they crisscross each other. As a scholar and interpreter of the human experience, I seek to analyze the thought of Haitian writers and intellectuals in their regional, international, and cosmopolitan context, and with all their complexity and paradoxes. This sequel is an expansion of my first book\u2014Race, Religion, and the Haitian Revolution: Essays on Faith, Freedom, and Decolonization\u2014\u201cHaitian modernity.\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Celucien JospehR3 Contributor I would like to inform you about my new book,\u00a0From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought\u00a0(2013). It is now available on Amazon or\u00a0Create Space\u00a0for purchase. In From Toussaint to\u00a0Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought, I engage Haiti\u2019s intellectual history by focusing on the ideas and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nRhetoric Race and Haitian Thought<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"by Celucien JospehR3 ContributorI would like to inform you about my new book, From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/06\/rhetoric-race-and-haitian-thought.html\" 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