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"Haiti and the Revolution Unseen: The Persistence of the Radical Decolonial Imagination" by Natalie M. Léger
Sat, Apr 25
|Cafe con Libros
Time & Location
Apr 25, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Cafe con Libros, 724 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11216, USA
About the Event
ABOUT THE BOOK
Haiti and the Revolution Unseen: The Persistence of the Decolonial Imagination is about Caribbean imaginings of the Haitian Revolution. It addresses how influential 20th century Caribbean writers and thinkers from Martinique, Cuba and Trinidad made sense of the Haitian Revolution to reimagine the Caribbean outside of the colonizing West and North. My work encourages readers to see the importance of thinking with Haiti and its revolutionary history; but it also invites readers to recognize the significance of listening to Haiti and the Revolution, both of which require directly engaging with Haiti’s rich cultural history and resistant lived reality.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Natalie M. Léger is an Associate Professor of English at Temple University, who specializes in twentieth century anti-colonial thought and decolonial philosophy in Caribbean literature and African diasporic fiction. Her research interests also focus on race and visual culture, Latin American literature, and magical realist cultural production. Her first book, Haiti and the Revolution Unseen: The…
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