As glossy Caribbean politics and literature emerged within the first part of
the 20 th century, Haiti, because the region's first self sufficient kingdom, stood as a resource of
proposal for imagining decolonization and rooting nearby id in Africanness. but at
exactly the similar second that anticolonialism used to be spreading during the Caribbean, Haiti
itself was once occupied by means of U.S. marines, a indisputable fact that neighborhood political and cultural histories too
usually put out of your mind. In American Imperialism’s Undead, Raphael Dalleo
examines how Caribbean literature and activism emerged within the shadow of the U.S. military
career of Haiti (1915-34) and the way that presence stimulated the improvement of
anticolonialism in the course of the quarter.

The career was once a generative event
for Caribbean activists corresponding to C. L. R. James, George Padmore, and Marcus and Amy Jacques
Garvey in addition to for writers reminiscent of Claude McKay, Eric Walrond, and Alejo Carpentier. Dalleo
offers new methods of figuring out those luminaries, whereas additionally exhibiting how different important
figures comparable to targeté Césaire, Arturo Schomburg, Claudia Jones, Frantz Fanon, Amy
Ashwood Garvey, H. G. De Lisser, Luis Palés Matos, George Lamming, and Jean Rhys can be
contextualized when it comes to the profession. by way of interpreting Caribbean responses to Haiti’s
career, Dalleo underscores U.S. imperialism as a very important if unstated impression on
anticolonial discourses and decolonization within the zone. with out acknowledging the significance
of the career of Haiti, our realizing of Atlantic historical past can't be
complete.