The French Atlantic triangle : literature and culture of the slave trade / Christopher L. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Christopher L., 1953-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--History and criticism.

French literature.

Slavery in literature.

Slavery in motion pictures.

Slave trade--France.

Slave trade.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 571 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Literature and culture of the slave trade

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part 1. The French Atlantic: 1 Introduction

2 Around the Triangle

3 The Slave Trade in the Enlightenment

4 The Veeritions of History

Part 2. French Women Writers: Revolution, Abolitionist Translation, Sentiment (1783-1823)

5 Gendering Abolitionism

6 Olympe de Gouges, "Earwitness to the Ills of America"

7 Madame de Stael, Mirza, and Pauline: Atlantic Memories

8 Duras and Her Ourika, "The Ultimate House Slave"

Conclusion to Part 2

Part 3. French Male Writers: Restoration, Abolition, Entertainment

9 Tamango around the Atlantic: Concatenations of Revolt

10 Forget Haiti: Baron Roger and the New Africa

11 Homosociality, Reckoning, and Recognition in Eugene Sue's Atar-Gull

12 Edouard Corbiere, "Mating," and Maritime Adventure

Part 4. The Triangle from "Below"

13 Cesaire, Glissant, Conde: Reimagining the Atlantic

14 African "Silence"

Conclusion: Reckoning, Reparation, and the Value of Fictions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-546) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

Other Format:

Print version: Miller, Christopher L., 1953- French Atlantic triangle.

ISBN:

9780822388838

0822388839

OCLC:

658910348