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The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean » (1st Edition)
Authors: Doris Garraway
ISBN-13: 9780822334651, ISBN-10: 0822334658
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: January 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Doris Garraway
Doris Garraway is Assistant Professor of French at Northwestern University.
Book Synopsis
Explores the founding discourses of race, hybridity, savagery, and degenercy in the seventeenth and eighteenth century French Caribbean, in particular the way many of these discourses were used to describe French settlers.
Table of Contents
| Introduction : Creolization in the old regime | 1 | |
| Ch. 1 | Border of violence, border of desire : the French and the Island Caribs | 39 |
| Ch. 2 | Domestication and the white noble savage | 93 |
| Ch. 3 | Creolization and the spirit world : demons, violence, and the body | 146 |
| Ch. 4 | The libertine colony : desire, miscegenation, and the law | 194 |
| Ch. 5 | Race, reproduction, and family romance in Saint-Domingue | 240 |
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