Creole Crossings : Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berman, Carolyn Vellenga
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Slavery in literature.
Domestic fiction.
Creoles in literature.
Antislavery movements in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Roman familial > Histoire et critique.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes dans la litterature.
Esclavage dans la litterature.
Creoles dans la litterature.
Domestic fiction > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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