The travelling travel narrative: the communication circuit of Spenser St. John’s Hayti, or, the Black Republic
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https://doi.org/10.14393/artc-v25-n46-2023-71182Keywords:
travelling narratives, Atlantic- wide communication circuit, HaitiAbstract
This article examines the circulation and reception of Spenser St. John's book Haiti, or the Black Republic (1884) in the Atlantic world between the end of the Nineteenth century and the first decades of the Twentieth. Its purpose is to show how the ideas of this book “travelled” and were employed in radically different contexts, starting from that of the author himself, a former British consul in Haiti, to the dilution of his main ideas in some novels of the Victorian era. Tracing the places and forms through which the book passed thus reveals the community of readers and writers that promoted the particular interpretation and appropriation of its defamatory vision of Haitian society, as well as its penetrating and lasting influence not only on the readers but also on the colonial administration.
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