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Slavery in the
Caribbean francophone world : distant voices, forgotten acts, forged
identities [based on a conference held at the University of Georgia in
Oct. 1997] / ed. by Doris Y. Kadish. - Athens : University of
Georgia press, 2000. - XXIII-247 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN 0-8203-2166-4
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NOTE DE L'ÉDITEUR
: Twelve scholars representing a variety of academic fields contribute
to this study of slavery in the French Caribbean colonies, which ranges
historically from the 1770s to Haiti's declaration of independent
statehood in 1804. Including essays on the impact of colonial slavery
on France, the United States, and the French West Indies, this
collection focuses on the events, causes, and effects of violent slave
rebellions that occurred in Saint-Domingue, Guadeloupe, and Martinique.
In one of the few studies to examine the Caribbean revolts and their
legacy from a U.S. perspective, the contributors discuss the flight of
island refugees to the southern cities of New Orleans, Savannah,
Charleston, Norfolk, and Baltimore that branded the lower United States
as « the extremity of Caribbean culture ». Based
on official records and public documents, historical research, literary
works, and personal accounts, these essays present a detailed view of
the lives of those who experienced this period of rebellion and change.
❙ Doris Y. Kadish is a professor of French and women's studies at the University of Georgia.
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Introduction
(Doris Y. Kadish)
Part 1 : French Perspectives
- French Caribbean Slaves Forge their own
Ideal of Liberty in 1789 (Catherine Reinhardt)
- Voices Lost ? Staël and Slavery,
1786-1830 (John Claiborne Isbell)
- Transmitting the Sense of Property : Reporting
on a Slave Massacre in 1847 (Gabriel Moyal)
Part 2 : American Perspectives
- Haitian Contributions to American History : A Journalistic Record (Leara Rhodes)
- The Tricolor in Black and White : The
French Revolution in Gabriel's Virginia (Douglas R. Egerton)
- Greedy French Masters and Color-Conscious,
Legal-Minded Spaniards in Colonial Louisiana (Kimberly S. Hanger)
- Francophone Residents of Antebellum Baltimore
and the Origins of the Oblate Sisters of Providence (Diane Batts
Morrow)
Part 3 : Caribbean Perspectives
- Creole, the Language of Slavery (Albert
Valdman)
- From the Problematic Maroon to a Woman-Centered
Creole Project in the Literature of the French West Indies (A.
James Arnold)
- Exorcising Painful Memories : Raphaël
Confiant and Patrick Chamoiseau (Marie-José N'Zengou-Tayo)
Part 4 : Legacies
- From the Plantation to the Penitentiary :
Chain, Classification, and Codes of Deterrence (Joan Dayan)
- Maryse Condé and Slavery (Doris
Y. Kadish)
Bibliography |
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| COMPLÉMENT BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE | - « Translating
slavery : gender and race in French women's writing,
1783-1823 » ed. by Doris Y. Kadish and Françoise
Massardier-Kenney, Kent (Ohio) : Kent state university press,
1994, 2009
- Doris
Y. Kadish and Deborah Jenson (ed.), « Poetry of Haitian
independence » foreword by Edwige Danticat, New Haven :
Yale university press, 2015
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| mise-à-jour : 3 août 2009 |
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