Marlene L. Daut is Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University and Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies, The Claremont Colleges.

"Groundbreaking and ambitious, expressively written and expertly researched, Tropics of Haiti creates a new canon of historical Haitian literary and cultural materials, and establishes the author as a scholar of outstanding import in studies of the African diaspora in Western modernity."--Professor Deborah Jenson, Duke University

"The body of literature that Daut covers is vast: memoirs, pamphlets, tracts, and early histories as well as conventional literary writings. Tropics of Haiti is a major intervention, offering the first exhaustive study of the transatlantic print culture of the Haitian Revolution."--Anna Brickhouse, Associate Professor of English and American Studies, University of Virginia

"Marlene Daut's Tropics of Haiti has an impressive scope, offering a persuasive argument about how 19th-century historical writing about Haiti contests many established narratives of contemporary Haitian revolutionary historiography. This book, brilliantly written and well researched, proposes an unprecedented and nuanced understanding of race issues and the Haitian Revolution."--Daniel Desormeaux, University of Chicago

"By examining several texts ranging from the well-known to the fairly obscure, Marlene Daut demonstrates how the "mulatto/a vengeance narrative" has affected traditional scholarship on the literature of the Haitian Revolution. Scholars of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature will find Tropics of Haiti a valuable addition to their libraries."--Tomaz Cunningham, L'Esprit Créateur

'Daut's masterful, extensive literary history of the Haitian Revolution in Tropics of Haiti enacts many of the principles she previously set out in her assessment of the emerging field of US-Haitian scholarship.' -- Chelsea Stieber, Early American literature

"May her [Daut's] influence continue to power our society out of its systemic racism, and into a more humane, luminous future." Julia Douthwaite Viglione, A Revolution in Fiction