The French Atlantic triangle : literature and culture of the slave trade /
Christopher L. Miller
Bok · Engelsk · 2008
| Utgitt | Durham : : Duke University Press, , cop. 2008.
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| Omfang | xvi, 571 sider : : ill. ;
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| Opplysninger | Around the triangle -- The slave trade in the enlightenment -- The veeritions of history -- Revolution, abolitionist translation, Sentiment (1783-1823) -- 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" -- Conclusion to part two -- Restoration, abolition, entertainment -- Tamango around the Atlantic: concatenations of revolt -- Forget Haiti: Baron Roger and the new Africa -- Homosociality, reckoning, and recognition in Eugéne Sue's atar-gull -- Edouard Corbiére, "mating," and maritime adventure -- Césaire, glissant, condé: reimagining the Atlantic -- African "silence" -- Conclusion: Reckoning, reparation, and the value of fictions.. - "The French Slave Trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact of the slave trade on the cultures of France and its colonies has received surprisingly little attention. Until recently, France had not publicly acknowledged its history as a major slave-trading power. The distinguished scholar Christopher L. Miller proposes a thorough assessment of the French slave trade and its cultural ramifications, in a broad, circum-Atlantic inquiry. This magisterial work is the first comprehensive examination of the French Atlantic slave trade and its consequences as represented in the history, literature, and film of France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean."--Book jacket.
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| Emner | French literature - History and criticism
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Slaveri i filmen Slaveri i litteraturen Slavhandel - Frankrike slaveri slavehandel fransk litteratur framstilling film Frankrike Afrika Karibia |
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| ISBN | 0-8223-4127-1. - 0-8223-4151-4. - 978-0-8223-4127-7. - 978-0-8223-4151-2
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