ABSTRACT

By examining how news from Haiti was picked up by Italian periodicals, reference and educational works in the early nineteenth century, I suggest that the Italian peninsula provides a new perspective for gauging the impact of Haitian self-presentation based on the appropriation and subversion of Eurocentric notions of civilization. An intellectual triangulation involving Simondi, Vastey, and Mazères highlights a hitherto uncharted Italian reception of Haitian post-revolutionary discourses. Without a colonial empire, Italian writers addressed the slave trade, colonialism, and Haitian independence as instrumental to their patriotic ambitions. Haitian contestations of the imperialistic order set at the Congress of Vienna suited the Italian vision of a global struggle for national independence. Haitian claims that civilization originated in Africa provided an argument against the narrative of progress spearheaded by Northern Europe; a notion that Italian patriots disputed owing to their pursuit of a leading role for their prospective nation in the Mediterranean.

摘要

通过研究19世纪初期意大利期刊，参考书目和教育著作是如何从海地获得新闻的，我建议意大利半岛为基于欧洲中心主义的侵占和颠覆来衡量海地人自我表述的影响提供一个新的视角。文明概念。涉及西蒙迪，瓦斯蒂和马泽雷斯的知识三角剖析突显了意大利迄今为止对海地革命后话语的前所未有的接受。没有殖民帝国，意大利作家认为奴隶贸易，殖民主义和海地独立对他们的爱国抱负起了重要作用。在维也纳会议上确定的海地帝国主义争斗符合意大利关于为民族独立进行全球斗争的愿景。海地人声称，起源于非洲的文明为反对北欧带头的进步的说法提供了论据。有人认为，意大利爱国者由于追求其潜在国家在地中海的领导作用而产生了争议。