{"product_id":"creating-the-creole-island-9780822333999","title":"Creating the Creole Island","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA historical reconstruction of the making of a slave society in the Indian Ocean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCreating the Creole Island\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting portrait of a slave-owning society. Megan Vaughan’s elegant narrative combines rich and ground-breaking historical analysis with acute theorizing of human subjectivity. It will be of compelling interest to anyone concerned with the emergence of our modern ‘creole’ world.”—Michael Lambek, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Weight of the Past: Living with History in Mahajanga, Madagascar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Megan Vaughan has given us a vivid portrait of how a society was formed from the mixture of peoples and languages of eighteenth-century Mauritius. Slaves take the initiative here—one of the many new insights that \u003ci\u003eCreating the Creole Island\u003c\/i\u003e brings to history, literature, and anthropology. And the book is a wonderful read besides.”—Natalie Zemon Davis, author of \u003ci\u003eWomen on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCreating the Creole Island\u003c\/i\u003e offers an exciting and innovative approach to slave history in the eighteenth century. It is an extremely valuable resource for scholars working on slave histories from a variety of disciplinary angles. Its primary objective of historicizing the process of ‘creolisation’ contributes an invaluable dimension to current debates on ethnicity and identity in postcolonial Mauritius.” -- Srilata Ravi * Postcolonial Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"[P]owerful set of arguments about what it means to be a slave. . . . [A] compellingly detailed tale. . . . This is an important book of huge interest to Mauritian specialists and historians of the slave trade and slavery elsewhere, as well as scholars interested in questions of gender and identity.\" -- Clare Anderson * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e\"Megan Vaughan's study is a tour de force. . . . A truly splendid and wide-ranging book with ramifications well beyond Mauritius. . . .This is a highly engaging, lively book.\" * Statement of the Prize Committe for the Heggoy Prize from the French Colonial Historical Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface xi\u003cbr\u003e 1. In the Beginning 1\u003cbr\u003e 2. Engineering a Colony, 1735–1767 33\u003cbr\u003e 3. Enlightenment Colonialism and Its Limits, 1767–1789 56\u003cbr\u003e 4. Roots and Routes: Ethnicity without Origins 91\u003cbr\u003e 5. A Baby in the Salt Pans: Mothering Slavery 123\u003cbr\u003e 6. Love in the Torrid Zone 152\u003cbr\u003e 7. Reputation, Recognition, and Race 178\u003cbr\u003e 8. Speaking Slavery: Language and Loss 202\u003cbr\u003e 9. Métissage and Revolution 229\u003cbr\u003e 10. Sugar and Abolition 253\u003cbr\u003e Notes 277\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 305\u003cbr\u003e Index 329","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737462124887,"sku":"9780822333999","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822333999.jpg?v=1723811222","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/creating-the-creole-island-9780822333999","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}