The invisibility of the Haitian Revolution and its possible decolonial resistances from the negritude

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze the silencing of the Haitian Revolution on the part of the eurocentric and western narratives in universal history. In this regard, it is of vital importance to note that this invisibility is the product of a traditional epistemic and racial inferior status on the part of the eurocentric locus of enunciation, which has had the privilege to categorize the historical events according to their closeness to the pre-course western ideal model of humanity.

On the other hand, it exposes the concept of negritude of Aimé Césaire and Franz Fanon, two intellectuals that constitute the anti-colonial thinking of the mid-twentieth century. From this vision, it is suggested that negritude, as both political and epistemic category, allows the discursive and practical germ for the decolonial resistances in the Caribbean, emerging the theft of the word and the construction of your own right to the enunciation. From this perspective, it explores the power devices operating in the geopolitics of knowledge about the Haitian Revolution, but finally proposing a reversal of this from the political fact of the heterodefinicion.