The Haiti Issue

Deborah Jenson Editor’s Preface Nick Nesbitt The Idea of 1804 Christopher L. Miller Forget Haiti: Baron Roger and The New Africa Chris Bongie “Monotonies of History”: Baron Vastey and the Mulatto Legend of Derek Walcott’s Haitian TrilogyDoris Kadish Haiti and Abolitionism in 1825: The Example of Sophie Doin David F. Bell Technologies of Speed, Technologies of Crime Uri Eisenzweig Violence Untold: The Birth of a Modern Fascination Dominique Kalifa Criminal Investigators at the Fin-de-siècle Andrea Goulet Curiosity Killer’s Instinct: Bibliophilia and the Myth of the Rational Detective Nanette Fornabai Criminal Factors: Fantômas, Anthropometrics, and the Numerical Fictions of Modern Criminal Identity Tom Gunning Lynx-Eyed Detectives and Shadow Bandits: Visuality and Eclipse in French Detective Stories and Films before WWI Daniel Desormeaux The First of the (Black) Memorialists: Toussaint Louverture Albert Valdman Haitian Creole at the Dawn of Independence Deborah Jenson From the Kidnapping(s) of the Louvertures to the Alleged Kidnapping of Aristide: Legacies of Slavery in the Post/Colonial World