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  • 6 - Conclusion

  • Peter Reed, University of Mississippi
  • Book:
    Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America
    Published online:
    18 November 2022
    Print publication:
    01 December 2022, pp 179-190

  • Summary

    The conclusion examines Herman Melville’s 1855 Benito Cereno, a novella of shipboard slave revolt, which imagines the Haitian Revolution as a hidden source of fashion and style. Melville’s tale also gestures toward the dominant tropes that would emerge in the later nineteenth century—the stories of zombis, vodou, and cannibalism as well as the constant preoccupation with natural disaster, disease, political corruption, and abject poverty that would predominate by the early twentieth century. Those tropes emerged in response to and often continued to reanimate the early history of Haitian revolutionary performances.