The French Atlantic Triangle
Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
1st Edition
Published on 11. January 2008
592 pages
978-0-8223-8883-8 (ISBN)
Description
A study of representations of the French Atlantic slave trade in the history, literature, and film of France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Durham, NC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
15 illustrations, 1 table, 2 figures
15 illustrations, 1 table, 2 figures
File size
4,90 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-8883-8 (9780822388838)
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Christopher L. Miller is Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of African American Studies and French at Yale University. He is the author of Nationalists and Nomads: Essays on Francophone African Literature and Culture; Theories of Africans: Francophone Literature and Anthropology in Africa; and Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French.
Content
Preface ix
Abbreviations xv
Part One. The French Atlantic
1. Introduction 3
2. Around the Triangle 40
3. The Slave Trade in the Enlightenment 62
4. The Veeritions of History 83
Part Two. French Women Writers: Revolution, Abolitionist Translation, Sentiment (1783-1823)
5. Gendering Abolitionism 99
6. Olympe de Gouges, "Earwitness to the Ills of America" 109
7. Madame de Stael, Mirza, and Pauline: Atlantic Memories 141
8. Duras and Her Ourika, "The Ultimate House Slave" 158
Conclusion to Part Two 174
Part Three. French Male Writers:Restoration, Abolition, Entertainment
9. Tamango around the Atlantic: Concatenations of Revolt 179
10. Forget haiti: Baron Roger and the New Africa 246
11. Homosociality, Reckoning, and Recognition in Eugene Sue's Atar-Gull 274
12. Edouard Corbiere, "Mating," and Maritime Adventure 300
Part Four. The Triangle from "Below"
13. Cesaire, Glissant, Conde: Reimagining the Atlantic 325
14. African "Silence" 364
Conclusion: Reckoning, Reparation, and the Value of Fictions 385
Notes 391
Bibliography 527
Index 547
Abbreviations xv
Part One. The French Atlantic
1. Introduction 3
2. Around the Triangle 40
3. The Slave Trade in the Enlightenment 62
4. The Veeritions of History 83
Part Two. French Women Writers: Revolution, Abolitionist Translation, Sentiment (1783-1823)
5. Gendering Abolitionism 99
6. Olympe de Gouges, "Earwitness to the Ills of America" 109
7. Madame de Stael, Mirza, and Pauline: Atlantic Memories 141
8. Duras and Her Ourika, "The Ultimate House Slave" 158
Conclusion to Part Two 174
Part Three. French Male Writers:Restoration, Abolition, Entertainment
9. Tamango around the Atlantic: Concatenations of Revolt 179
10. Forget haiti: Baron Roger and the New Africa 246
11. Homosociality, Reckoning, and Recognition in Eugene Sue's Atar-Gull 274
12. Edouard Corbiere, "Mating," and Maritime Adventure 300
Part Four. The Triangle from "Below"
13. Cesaire, Glissant, Conde: Reimagining the Atlantic 325
14. African "Silence" 364
Conclusion: Reckoning, Reparation, and the Value of Fictions 385
Notes 391
Bibliography 527
Index 547
