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The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade

The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade Paperback / softback - 2008

by Christopher L. Miller

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Paperback / softback. New. A 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.
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  • Title The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
  • Author Christopher L. Miller
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 592
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 2008-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780822341512
  • ISBN 9780822341512 / 0822341514
  • Weight 1.76 lbs (0.80 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.13 x 1.19 in (23.50 x 15.57 x 3.02 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Slavery in literature, French literature - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007033635
  • Dewey Decimal Code 840.935

From the publisher

The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact of the slave trade on the cultures of France and its colonies has received surprisingly little attention. Until recently, France had not publicly acknowledged its history as a major slave-trading power. The distinguished scholar Christopher L. Miller proposes a thorough assessment of the French slave trade and its cultural ramifications, in a broad, circum-Atlantic inquiry. This magisterial work is the first comprehensive examination of the French Atlantic slave trade and its consequences as represented in the history, literature, and film of France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean.

Miller offers a historical introduction to the cultural and economic dynamics of the French slave trade, and he shows how Enlightenment thinkers such as Montesquieu and Voltaire mused about the enslavement of Africans, while Rousseau ignored it. He follows the twists and turns of attitude regarding the slave trade through the works of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century French writers, including Olympe de Gouges, Madame de Stal, Madame de Duras, Prosper Mrime, and Eugne Sue. For these authors, the slave trade was variously an object of sentiment, a moral conundrum, or an entertaining high-seas "adventure." Turning to twentieth-century literature and film, Miller describes how artists from Africa and the Caribbean--including the writers Aim Csaire, Maryse Cond, and Edouard Glissant, and the filmmakers Ousmane Sembene, Guy Deslauriers, and Roger Gnoan M'Bala--have confronted the aftermath of France's slave trade, attempting to bridge the gaps between silence and disclosure, forgetfulness and memory.

About the author

Christopher L. Miller is Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of African American Studies and French at Yale University. He is the author of Nationalists and Nomads: Essays on Francophone African Literature and Culture; Theories of Africans: Francophone Literature and Anthropology in Africa; and Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French.