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The Libertine Colony : Creolization in the Early French Caribbean /

Doris Garraway explores the founding discourses of race, hybridity, savagery, and degeneracy in the 17th and 18th century French Caribbean, in particular the way many of these discourses were used to describe French settlers.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Garraway, Doris Lorraine, 1972- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Creolization in the Old Regime
  • Border of violence, border of desire : the French and the island Caribs
  • Domestication and the white noble savage
  • Creolization and the spirit world : demons, violence, and the body
  • The libertine colony : desire, miscegenation, and the law
  • Race, reproduction, and family romance in Saint-Domingue.