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Title: The French Atlantic Triangle
Condition: New
Subtitle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
Author: Christopher L. Miller
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0822341514
EAN: 9780822341512
ISBN: 9780822341512
Publisher: Duke University Press
Genre: History
Topic: Literary Criticism
Release Date: 11/01/2008
Description: The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact of the slave trade on the cultures of France and its colonies has received surprisingly little attention. Until recently, France had not publicly acknowledged its history as a major slave-trading power. The distinguished scholar Christopher L. Miller proposes a thorough assessment of the French slave trade and its cultural ramifications, in a broad, circum-Atlantic inquiry. This magisterial work is the first comprehensive examination of the French Atlantic slave trade and its consequences as represented in the history, literature, and film of France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean.

Miller offers a historical introduction to the cultural and economic dynamics of the French slave trade, and he shows how Enlightenment thinkers such as Montesquieu and Voltaire mused about the enslavement of Africans, while Rousseau ignored it. He follows the twists and turns of attitude regarding the slave trade through the works of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century French writers, including Olympe de Gouges, Madame de Staël, Madame de Duras, Prosper Mérimée, and Eugène Sue. For these authors, the slave trade was variously an object of sentiment, a moral conundrum, or an entertaining high-seas “adventure.” Turning to twentieth-century literature and film, Miller describes how artists from Africa and the Caribbean—including the writers Aimé Césaire, Maryse Condé, and Edouard Glissant, and the filmmakers Ousmane Sembene, Guy Deslauriers, and Roger Gnoan M’Bala—have confronted the aftermath of France’s slave trade, attempting to bridge the gaps between silence and disclosure, forgetfulness and memory.


Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Weight: 798g
Release Year: 2008

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  • Condition: Brand new
  • Publication Name: The French Atlantic Triangle
  • Title: The French Atlantic Triangle
  • Subtitle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
  • ISBN-10: 0822341514
  • EAN: 9780822341512
  • ISBN: 9780822341512
  • Genre: History
  • Release Year: 2008
  • Release Date: 11/01/2008
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: US
  • Item Length: 156mm
  • Item Weight: 798g
  • UPC: 9780822341512
  • Publication Year: 2008
  • Type: Textbook
  • Format: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Book Title: The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
  • Item Height: 235mm
  • Author: Christopher L. Miller
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Topic: Literature, History
  • Item Width: 156mm
  • Number of Pages: 592 Pages

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