Description |
xvi, 571 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-546) and index. |
Contents |
Around the triangle -- The slave trade in the Enlightenment -- The veeritions of history -- Gendering abolitionism -- Olympe de Gouges, "earwitness to the ills of America" -- Madame de Staël, Mirza, and Pauline : Atlantic memories -- Duras and her Ourika, "the ultimate house slave" -- Tamango around the Atlantic : concatenations of revolt -- Forget Haiti : Baron Roger and the new Africa -- Homosociality, reckoning, and recognition in Eugène Sue's Atar-gull -- Edouard Corbière, "mating," and maritime adventure -- Césaire, Glissant, Condé : reimagining the Atlantic -- African "silence" -- Conclusion : Reckoning, reparation, and the value of fictions. |
Form |
Also issued online. |
Subject |
French literature -- History and criticism.
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French literature. |
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Slavery in literature.
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Slavery in literature. |
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Slavery in motion pictures.
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Slavery in motion pictures. |
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Slave trade -- France.
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Slave trade. |
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France. |
Other Form: |
Online version: Miller, Christopher L., 1953- French Atlantic triangle. Durham : Duke University Press, 2008 (OCoLC)658910348 |
ISBN |
9780822341512 paperback |
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9780822341277 |
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0822341271 |
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0822341514 paperback |
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