ABSTRACT

In the past ten years, scholarship on the Haitian Revolution can truly be said to have come of age. Emphatically no longer “silenced,” as Michel-Rolph Trouillot complained in 1995, the events of 1791 to 1804 and beyond are now the subject of a rich and diversified historical literature reflecting a multiplicity of points of view. Since 2010, there have been four major new biographies of Toussaint Louverture, as well as new examinations of topics ranging from the nature of pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue society to the place of Haiti in the world after the declaration of independence. Customary assumptions about a total rupture between the colonial world and the revolutionary era and about Haiti's isolation after 1804 have been called into question, and the extent and originality of Haitian contributions to early nineteenth-century political debates have been documented. At the same time, the recent explosion of scholarship in the field has highlighted questions that call for further exploration.

摘要

在过去的十年中，关于海地革命的奖学金可以说是真正的成熟。正如Michel-Rolph Trouillot在1995年所抱怨的那样，强调不再是“沉默”了，1791年至1804年及其以后的事件现在已成为反映多种观点的丰富多样的历史文献的主题。自2010年以来，新出现了四本Toussaint Louverture的主要传记，以及对从革命前圣多明哥社会的性质到宣布独立后海地在世界范围内的地位的主题进行了新的考察。关于殖民地世界与革命时代之间彻底破裂以及关于海地在1804年之后被孤立的习惯假设受到质疑，并记录了海地人对19世纪初期政治辩论的贡献的程度和独创性。同时，该领域最近的奖学金激增也突出了需要进一步探索的问题。