Dangerous Creole Liaisons : Sexuality and Nationalism in French Caribbean Discourses from 1806 To 1897.
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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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