The Guise of Exceptionalism : : Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti and the United States / / Robert Fatton.
The Guise of Exceptionalism compares the historical origins of Haitian and American exceptionalisms. It also traces how exceptionalism as a narrative of uniqueness has shaped relations between the two countries from their early days of independence through the contemporary period. As a social invent...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Caribbean Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- The Guise of Exceptionalism
- 1 Introduction
- 2 American Exceptionalism
- 3 Exceptionalism and “Unthinkability”
- 4 Manifest Destiny and the American Occupation of Haiti
- 5 The American Occupation and Haiti’s Exceptionalism
- 6 Imperial Exceptionalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- 7 Dictatorship, Democratization, and Exceptionalism
- 8 The Diaspora and the Transmogrification of Exceptionalism
- 9 Identity Politics and Modern Exceptionalism
- 10 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author