Haiti and Modern Revolution. Narratives of Globality, Irreversibility and Subaltern Agency in the German-speaking World since 1791

在德国文献学中，迄今为止对革命研究的焦点一直是法国大革命。相比之下，本项目的主题是现代革命概念的核心维度，如全球性、不可逆性和次等能动性，是在海地革命（1791-1804）的叙述中演变而来的。在18世纪末和19世纪的德语世界，这场革命是由小说、历史书籍和期刊文章组成的跨国印刷文化中的一次媒体事件。历史政治期刊通过翻译和记录原始资料，建立了海地革命的档案。历史学家和诗人将这些档案纳入海地革命的叙述中。该项目将特别考虑三个核心例子：模仿（法国大革命），进步（从奴隶制和殖民主义到主权国家）和“伟人”（革命领导人，如杜桑·卢维杜尔）的叙述。本文认为，这些叙事在现代革命概念（全球性、不可逆性和次等能动性）的中心、特殊、时间和形象方面的形成中发挥了至关重要的作用。

In German philology, the focal point of research on revolutions has been the French Revolution so far. By contrast, the thesis of this project is that central dimensions of the modern concept of revolution such as globality, irreversibility and subaltern agency evolved within narratives of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). In the German-speaking world of the late 18th and 19th century, this revolution was a media event inside a transnational print culture that comprised fictions, historical books and journal articles. Historico-political journals established an archive of the Haitian Revolution by translating and documenting original sources. Historians and poets incorporated this archive into narratives of the Haitian Revolution. The project will consider three central examples in particular: The narratives of imitation (of the French Revolution), of progress (from slavery and colonialism to a sovereign state) and of the 'Great men' (the leaders of the revolution such as Toussaint L’Ouverture). The thesis is that these narratives played a crucial role in the formation of central special, temporal and figural aspects of the modern concept of revolution (globality, irreversibility and subaltern agency).