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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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