Cover Image

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

Show other versions (1)

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.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Main Author: Miller, Christopher L., 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
French literature > History and criticism.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery in motion pictures.
Slave trade > France.
French literature.
Slave trade.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of 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.

Similar Items