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Creole crossings : domestic fiction and the reform of colonial slavery /

The character of the Creole woman-the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier-is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, British, and American literature. In Creole Crossings, Carolyn Vellenga Berman examines the use of this recurring figure in such canonical novels...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berman, Carolyn Vellenga
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Creole Crossings; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION Domestic Fiction and Colonial Slavery; CHAPTER ONE ""Creoles and Creolified; CHAPTER TWO Creole Nation: Paul et Virginie; CHAPTER THREE Revising Virginia: Belinda, Indiana, and LA Fille aux yeux d'or; CHAPTER FOUR Colonial Madness in Jane Eyre; CHAPTER FIVE Legitimate Families: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; CHAPTER SIX Indicting Domestic Fiction: Wide Sargasso Sea; CONCLUSION; NOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX.