The Libertine Colony : Creolization in the Early French Caribbean


Doris. Garraway
Bok Engelsk 2005 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
North Carolina : : Duke University Press, , 2005.
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1 online resource (431 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: Creolization in the Old Regime; Border of Violence, Border of Desire: The French and the Island Caribs; Domestication and theWhite Noble Savage; Creolization and the SpiritWorld: Demons, Violence, and the Body; The Libertine Colony: Desire, Miscegenation, and the Law; Race, Reproduction, and Family Romance in Saint-Domingue; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index. - Explores the founding discourses of race, hybridity, savagery, and degenercy in the seventeenth and eighteenth century French Caribbean, in particular the way many of these discourses were used to describe French settlers.
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0822334534. - 0822334658

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