This article examines the "communication circuit" of Spenser St. John's Hayti; or, The Black Republic. In this, the most widely read work on Haiti at the close of the nineteenth century, St. John helped to crystallise ideas about that country as steeped in Vodou, and quickly "decaying" into a condition of barbarism. As the book "travelled" around the Atlantic, it was read by radically different audiences, from Haitian diplomats to British reviewers. Their corresponding and conflicting responses reveal something of the power dynamics in forming ideas about the "black republic."

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旅行的旅行叙事：斯宾塞圣约翰海蒂的通信线路；或者，黑色共和国

本文考察了 Spenser St. John's Hayti 的“通信电路”；或者，黑色共和国。在这本 19 世纪末阅读最广泛的关于海地的著作中，圣约翰帮助将有关该国的思想具体化，因为它沉浸在伏都教中，并迅速“腐烂”到野蛮状态。当这本书在大西洋上“旅行”时，它被完全不同的读者阅读，从海地外交官到英国评论家。他们相应且相互矛盾的反应揭示了形成关于“黑色共和国”的想法的某些权力动态。