{"product_id":"the-french-atlantic-triangle-9780822341512","title":"The French Atlantic Triangle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA study of representations of the French Atlantic slave trade in the history, literature, and film of France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe French Atlantic Triangle\u003c\/i\u003e will stand as a landmark in both the study of slavery and its very particular manifestations in the French Atlantic world.” - Martin Munro, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Miller’s \u003ci\u003eThe French Atlantic Triangle\u003c\/i\u003e is an original and highly readable book that makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Atlantic slavery and its role in shaping the modern world. . . . [T]he book’s detailed examination of France’s long-neglected involvement in the slave trade makes it a necessary read for anyone seeking to understand the cultural echoes of the Middle Passage in the Francophone world and beyond.” -- Andrew Optiz * African American Review *\u003cbr\u003e“Miller’s \u003ci\u003eThe French Atlantic Triangle\u003c\/i\u003e is an original and highly readable book that makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Atlantic slavery and its role in shaping the modern world. . . . [T]he book’s detailed examination of France’s long-neglected involvement in the slave trade makes it a necessary read for anyone seeking to understand the cultural echoes of the Middle Passage in the Francophone world and beyond.” - Andrew Optiz, \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Miller’s project is unusual not only in its broad historical scope but also in its attempt to trace links between 18th and 19th-century French literature and 20th-century works by writers from France’s former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean.” -- Brent Hayes Edwards * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Thoroughly researched and thought-provoking, this well-written book will be accessible even to readers unfamiliar with the primary texts Miller discusses. . . . It will interest not only those studying French and Francophone literature but also those pursuing work in African and black studies. Highly recommended. Lower division undergraduates through faculty.\"\u003cbr\u003e - D. L. Boudreau\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a book of encyclopedic reach and vast dimensions. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe French Atlantic Triangle\u003c\/i\u003e is meticulously researched, almost comprehensive in its treatment of the literary corpus, and makes diligent use of historical scholarship. It offers an astonishing web of circuits of reception, rereadings and intertextual relations between key texts . . . and thus fills a troubling gap in French literary and cultural history. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe French Atlantic Triangle\u003c\/i\u003e is a tremendous achievement that is possible only on the basis of decades of committed research and teaching. Most importantly, it is an important rectification of a reprehensible cultural narrative. Perhaps the day will come when French literary history can no longer be written without mentioning the slave trade and the slave colonies that subtended the motherland of liberty.” -- Sibylle Fischer * Journal of Colonialism \u0026amp; Colonial History *\u003cbr\u003e“This is a book of encyclopedic reach and vast dimensions. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe French Atlantic Triangle\u003c\/i\u003e is meticulously researched, almost comprehensive in its treatment of the literary corpus, and makes diligent use of historical scholarship. It offers an astonishing web of circuits of reception, rereadings and intertextual relations between key texts . . . and thus fills a troubling gap in French literary and cultural history. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe French Atlantic Triangle\u003c\/i\u003e is a tremendous achievement that is possible only on the basis of decades of committed research and teaching. Most importantly, it is an important rectification of a reprehensible cultural narrative. Perhaps the day will come when French literary history can no longer be written without mentioning the slave trade and the slave colonies that subtended the motherland of liberty.” - Sibylle Fischer, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Colonialism and Colonial History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thoroughly researched and thought-provoking, this well-written book will be accessible even to readers unfamiliar with the primary texts Miller discusses. . . . It will interest not only those studying French and Francophone literature but also those pursuing work in African and black studies. Highly recommended. Lower division undergraduates through faculty.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- D. L. Boudreau * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“Miller’s project is unusual not only in its broad historical scope but also in its attempt to trace links between 18th and 19th-century French literature and 20th-century works by writers from France’s former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean.” - Brent Hayes Edwards, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe French Atlantic Triangle\u003c\/i\u003e will stand as a landmark in both the study of slavery and its very particular manifestations in the French Atlantic world.” -- Martin Munro * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe French Atlantic Triangle\u003c\/i\u003e is a tremendous achievement. Meticulously researched and lucidly written, it is an introduction to a neglected water world, without knowledge of which our encounter with continental history and literature is doomed to perpetuate biases and omissions.”—\u003cb\u003eDeborah Jenson\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eTrauma and Its Representations: The Social Life of Mimesis in Post-Revolutionary France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe French Atlantic Triangle\u003c\/i\u003e is an extremely impressive, compelling, and necessary book. Christopher L. Miller provides a magisterial examination of how the history of slavery, which profoundly shaped the culture of France, has haunted and animated the work of generations of writers and artists. In the process he offers us a new way of defining and seeing the French Atlantic.”—\u003cb\u003eLaurent Dubois\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eA Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787–1804\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Revealing a remarkable breadth of knowledge, Christopher L. Miller combines conceptual sophistication, an authoritative analysis of Francophone texts, and a compelling discussion of the ways that the French Atlantic triangle emerged and put a lasting imprint on French imagination and politics. This is a significant contribution to an understanding of the world slavery built. It is a truly great book; it should be read by anyone who cares about race, memory, literature, and citizenship.”—\u003cb\u003eFrançoise Vergès\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMonsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and\u003c\/i\u003e Métissage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations xv\u003cbr\u003e Part One. The French Atlantic \u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction 3\u003cbr\u003e 2. Around the Triangle 40\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Slave Trade in the Enlightenment 62\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Veeritions of History 83\u003cbr\u003e Part Two. French Women Writers: Revolution, Abolitionist Translation, Sentiment (1783-1823) \u003cbr\u003e 5. Gendering Abolitionism 99\u003cbr\u003e 6. Olympe de Gouges, \"Earwitness to the Ills of America\" 109\u003cbr\u003e 7. Madame de Stael, Mirza, and Pauline: Atlantic Memories 141\u003cbr\u003e 8. Duras and Her Ourika, \"The Ultimate House Slave\" 158\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion to Part Two 174\u003cbr\u003e Part Three. French Male Writers:Restoration, Abolition, Entertainment \u003cbr\u003e 9. Tamango around the Atlantic: Concatenations of Revolt 179\u003cbr\u003e 10. Forget haiti: Baron Roger and the New Africa 246\u003cbr\u003e 11. Homosociality, Reckoning, and Recognition in Eugene Sue's Atar-Gull 274\u003cbr\u003e 12. Edouard Corbiere, \"Mating,\" and Maritime Adventure 300\u003cbr\u003e Part Four. The Triangle from \"Below\" \u003cbr\u003e 13. Cesaire, Glissant, Conde: Reimagining the Atlantic 325\u003cbr\u003e 14. African \"Silence\" 364\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Reckoning, Reparation, and the Value of Fictions 385\u003cbr\u003e Notes 391\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 527\u003cbr\u003e Index 547","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406049747287,"sku":"9780822341512","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-french-atlantic-triangle-9780822341512","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}