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Dangerous Creole Liaisons : Sexuality and Nationalism in French Caribbean Discourses from 1806 To 1897.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (286 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781781384572
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dangerous Creole LiaisonsOnline resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Chercher la femme: Traces of an Ever-Present Absence -- 1. The (White) Female Creole Body: Bearer of Culture and Cultural Signifier -- 2. Falling from Grace: Creole Gothic, Flawed Femininity, and the Collapse of Civilization -- Coda I (Re)writing History: Revival of the Declining Creole Nation and Transatlantic Ties -- 3. Sexualizing and Darkening Black Female Bodies: Whose Imagined Community? -- 4. Colonial Democracy and Fin-de-Siècle Martinique: The Third Republic and White Creole Dissent -- Coda II Heritage and Legacies -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Dangerous Creole Liaisons examines the neglected corpus of white Creole writers from the French Caribbean and how their discourse has been reappropriated to expose the significant role these men played in the construction of blackness, French nationalism and culture.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Chercher la femme: Traces of an Ever-Present Absence -- 1. The (White) Female Creole Body: Bearer of Culture and Cultural Signifier -- 2. Falling from Grace: Creole Gothic, Flawed Femininity, and the Collapse of Civilization -- Coda I (Re)writing History: Revival of the Declining Creole Nation and Transatlantic Ties -- 3. Sexualizing and Darkening Black Female Bodies: Whose Imagined Community? -- 4. Colonial Democracy and Fin-de-Siècle Martinique: The Third Republic and White Creole Dissent -- Coda II Heritage and Legacies -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

Dangerous Creole Liaisons examines the neglected corpus of white Creole writers from the French Caribbean and how their discourse has been reappropriated to expose the significant role these men played in the construction of blackness, French nationalism and culture.

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