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by Arna Bontemps; Introduction by Michael P. Bibler; Introduction by Jessica Adams


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A story of love, violence, and race set at the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution in 1791, African American writer Arna Bontemps's Drums at Dusk immerses readers in the opulent and brutal -- yet also very fragile -- society of France's richest colony, Saint Domingue. First published in 1939, this novel explores the complex web of tensions connecting wealthy plantation owners, poor whites, free people of color, and the slaves who stunned the colony and the globe by uniting in a carefully planned uprising. The novel's hero, Diron Desautels, a white Creole born in Saint Domingue who belongs to the French antislavery group Socit des Amis des Noirs, attempts to spread his message of "liberty, equality, fraternity" in a world fraught with conflict.
Imaginatively inhabiting a wide spectrum of Haitian voices, including those of white indentured servants, female slaves, and Toussaint L'Ouverture, who later emerged as the revolution's best-known hero, Bontemps's work reflects not only the intricacies of Haitian society on the eve of the revolution, but also a black artist's vision of Haiti in the twentieth century, during the U.S. Marines' occupation and at the brink of war in Europe.
A new introduction by Michael P. Bibler and Jessica Adams reveals how Drums at Dusk -- even seventy years after its original publication -- contributes to contemporary studies of the American South as part of the larger plantation region of the Caribbean and inspires a reevaluation of assumptions about revolution, race, and nationalism.

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  • Title Drums at Dusk
  • Author Arna Bontemps; Introduction by Michael P. Bibler; Introduction by Jessica Adams
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher LSU Press
  • Date 2009-06-15
  • ISBN 9780807134399 / 0807134392
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.56 x 0.73 in (20.37 x 14.12 x 1.85 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Haiti - History - Revolution, 1791-1804
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008047175
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Born in Alexandria, Louisiana, Arna Bontemps (1902--1973) deeply involved himself in the Harlem Renaissance and carved out a long career as a writer and academic. He is author of Black Thunder and other novels and editor of Father of the Blues: An Autobiography, by W. C. Handy. He also wrote poetry, short stories, and essays.
Michael P. Bibler teaches American literature at the University of Manchester and is the author of Cotton's Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936--1968.
Jessica Adams is the author of Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation.

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