Kleist and Haiti: The Haitian Revolution in Heinrich Von Kleist’s 'Die Verlobung in St. Domingo'

This article revisits the question of how to interpret Heinrich von Kleist’s short story “Die Verlobung in St. Domingo”. While Kleist specialists have tended to insufficiently relate the story to the developing field of Haitian studies, scholars more attuned to the literary history of the Haitian re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jonas Ross Kjærgård
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Stockholm University Press 2018-11-01
Series:Karib
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Online Access:https://www.karib.no/articles/53