Abstract
Jean Casimir’s The Haitians is a decolonial history of the Haitian people (“une lecture décoloniale” in French) that challenges dominant narratives about the Haitian Revolution and Haitian history in the North Atlantic academy. This essay explores Casimir’s efforts to recenter the Haitian people—their self-determination and their perspective—in the radical anticolonial, antislavery project that is Haiti. Rather than placing Casimir in relation to the major thinkers in decolonial thought, however, it situates his work in relation to the Haitian literary and political movement known as spiralism.
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