Asquith, Wendy 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7900-0772
(2018)
The art of postcolonial politics in the age of empire: Haiti's object lesson at the World's Columbian Exposition.
HISTORICAL RESEARCH, 91 (253).
pp. 528-553.
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Abstract
This article explores how representatives of the Caribbean’s first postcolonial state undertook the project of displaying Haitian nationhood during the age of empire. It challenges current understandings of Haiti’s pavilion as a site of African diasporic solidarity, through an examination of the artworks featured within Haiti’s object lesson. Haiti’s display was strategically constructed to promote the nation’s economy, express diplomatic conformity with the current world order and suggest pan-American affinity while maintaining links to French cultural traditions. Through new archival research, this article contributes to a reconsideration of the significance of world’s fairs themselves as sites for postcolonial display.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Mar 2022 11:29 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 21:10 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1468-2281.12232 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3150993 |
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