Miller The French Atlantic Triangle

Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8883-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 592 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Christopher L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.