Dangerous Creole Liaisons

Author : Jacqueline Couti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781383018

Get Book

Dangerous Creole Liaisons by Jacqueline Couti Pdf

Dangerous Creole Liaisons explores a French Caribbean context to broaden discussions of sexuality, nation building, and colonialism in the Americas. Couti examines how white Creoles perceived their contributions to French nationalism through the course of the nineteenth century as they portrayed sexualized female bodies and sexual and racial difference to advance their political ideologies. Questioning their exhilarating exoticism and titillating eroticism underscores the ambiguous celebration of the Creole woman as both seductress and an object of lust. She embodies the Caribbean as a space of desire and a political site of contest that reflects colonial, slave and post-slave societies. The under-researched white Creole writers and non-Caribbean authors (such as Lafcadio Hearn) who traveled to and wrote about these islands offer an intriguing gendering and sexualization of colonial and nationalist discourses. Their use of the floating motif of the female body as the nation exposes a cultural cross-pollination, an intense dialogue of political identity between continental France and her Caribbean colonies. Couti suggests that this cross-pollination still persists. Eventually, representations of Creole women's bodies (white and black) bring two competing conceptions of nationalism into play: a local, bounded, French nationalism against a transatlantic and more fluid nationalism that included the Antilles in a greater France.

Author : JACQUELINE. COUTI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800349076

Get Book

DANGEROUS CREOLE LIAISONS by JACQUELINE. COUTI Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Couti
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781384572

Get Book

Dangerous Creole Liaisons by Jacqueline Couti Pdf

Dangerous Creole Liaisons examines the neglected corpus of white Creole writers from the French Caribbean and how their discourse has been reappropriated to expose the significant role these men played in the construction of blackness, French nationalism and culture.

Author : Jacqueline Couti
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800857261

Get Book

Sex, Sea, and Self by Jacqueline Couti Pdf

Sex, Sea, and Self reassesses the place of the French Antilles and French Caribbean literature within current postcolonial thought and visions of the Black Atlantic. Using a feminist lens, this study examines neglected twentieth-century French texts by Black writers from Martinique and Guadeloupe, making the analysis of some of these texts available to readers of English for the first time. This interdisciplinary study of female and male authors reconsiders their political strategies and the critical role of French creoles in the creation of their own history. This approach recalibrates overly simplistic understandings of the victimization and alienation of French Caribbean people. In the systems of cultural production under consideration, sexuality constitutes an instrument of political and cultural consciousness in the chaotic period between 1924 and 1948. Studying sexual imagery constructed around female bodies demonstrates the significance of agency and the legacy of the past in cultural resistance and political awareness. Sex, Sea, and Self particularly highlights Antillean women intellectuals’ theoretical contributions to Caribbean critical theory. Therefore, this analysis illuminates debates on the multifaceted and conflicted relationships between France and its overseas departments and expands ideas of nationhood in the Black Atlantic and the Americas.

Author : Félix Germain,Silyane Larcher
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496210357

Get Book

Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016 by Félix Germain,Silyane Larcher Pdf

Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016 explores how black women in France itself, the French Caribbean, Gorée, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis experienced and reacted to French colonialism and how gendered readings of colonization, decolonization, and social movements cast new light on the history of French colonization and of black France. In addition to delineating the powerful contributions of black French women in the struggle for equality, contributors also look at the experiences of African American women in Paris and in so doing integrate into colonial and postcolonial conversations the strategies black women have engaged in negotiating gender and race relations à la française. Drawing on research by scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds and countries, this collection offers a fresh, multidimensional perspective on race, class, and gender relations in France and its former colonies, exploring how black women have negotiated the boundaries of patriarchy and racism from their emancipation from slavery to the second decade of the twenty-first century.

Author : Erica L. Ball,Tatiana Seijas,Terri L. Snyder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108493406

Get Book

As If She Were Free by Erica L. Ball,Tatiana Seijas,Terri L. Snyder Pdf

A groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.

Author : Charlotte Hammond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786941480

Get Book

Entangled Otherness by Charlotte Hammond Pdf

Entangled Otherness explores the dynamics of cross-dressing and gender performance in contemporary francophone Caribbean cultures through a range of visual and textual media. Original in its comparative focus on the islands of Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe and their diasporic communities in France, this study reveals how opaque strategies of crossing, mimicry and masquerade have enabled resistance to the racialised, gendered and patriarchal classifications of bodies that characterized Enlightenment thought during the French transatlantic slave trade. It engages with archival texts of pre-revolutionary Haiti to offer a historical understanding of current constructions of Caribbean gender most influenced by French colonial legacies. The author argues that cross-dressing, as a form of 'self-fabrication', complicates inherently entangled colonial binaries of identity and resists France's paternalistic gaze. The book's multidisciplinary approach to gender analysis weaves a dialogue between cross-cultural voices garnered from textual and historical analysis, ethnographic interviews and theoretical insight to foreground the continued need to decolonize Eurocentric readings of gender identity in the francophone and creolophone islands, and the Caribbean region more generally. Works of art, film, photography, carnival, performance, and dress, including depictions of fluid identities in the binary-resistant Afro-Creole religion of Vodou, are examined using contemporary performance, gender and social theory from within the region. Entangled Otherness thus makes a unique and timely contribution to the growing body of knowledge and debate in the areas of gender, sexuality and the body in Caribbean Studies.

Author : Aimé Césaire
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478059622

Get Book

......And the Dogs Were Silent/......Et les chiens se taisaient by Aimé Césaire Pdf

Available to readers for the first time, Aimé Césaire’s three-act drama . . . . . . And the Dogs Were Silent—written during the Vichy regime in Martinique in 1943 and lost until 2008—dramatizes the Haitian Revolution and the rise and fall of Toussaint Louverture as its heroic leader. This bilingual English and French edition stands apart from Césaire’s more widely known 1946 closet drama. Following the slave revolts that sparked the revolution, Louverture arrives as both prophet and poet, general and visionary. With striking dramatic technique, Césaire retells the revolution in poignant encounters between rebels and colonial forces, guided by a prophetic chorus and Louverture’s steady ethical and political vision. In the last act, we reach the hero’s betrayal, his imprisonment, and his last stand against the lures of compromise. Césaire’s masterwork is a strikingly beautiful and brutal indictment of colonial cruelty and an unabashed celebration of Black rebellion and victory.

Author : Jacqueline Couti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800859944

Get Book

Sex, Sea, and Self by Jacqueline Couti Pdf

Sex, Sea, and Self reassesses the place of the French Antilles and French Caribbean literature within current postcolonial thought and visions of the Black Atlantic. Using a feminist lens, this study examines neglected twentieth-century French texts by Black writers from Martinique and Guadeloupe, making the analysis of some of these texts available to readers of English for the first time. This interdisciplinary study of female and male authors reconsiders their political strategies and the critical role of French creoles in the creation of their own history. This approach recalibrates overly simplistic understandings of the victimization and alienation of French Caribbean people. In the systems of cultural production under consideration, sexuality constitutes an instrument of political and cultural consciousness in the chaotic period between 1924 and 1948. Studying sexual imagery constructed around female bodies demonstrates the significance of agency and the legacy of the past in cultural resistance and political awareness. Sex, Sea, and Self particularly highlights Antillean women intellectuals' theoretical contributions to Caribbean critical theory. Therefore, this analysis illuminates debates on the multifaceted and conflicted relationships between France and its overseas departments and expands ideas of nationhood in the Black Atlantic and the Americas.

Author : Felix Fernand Germain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3511254

Get Book

Dangerous Liaisons by Felix Fernand Germain Pdf

Author : Pamela Nadell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393651249

Get Book

America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today by Pamela Nadell Pdf

A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history. What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse group of extraordinary people—from the colonial-era matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter, poet Emma Lazarus, to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to scores of other activists, workers, wives, and mothers who helped carve out a Jewish American identity. The twin threads binding these women together, she argues, are a strong sense of self and a resolute commitment to making the world a better place. Nadell recounts how Jewish women have been at the forefront of causes for centuries, fighting for suffrage, trade unions, civil rights, and feminism, and hoisting banners for Jewish rights around the world. Informed by shared values of America’s founding and Jewish identity, these women’s lives have left deep footprints in the history of the nation they call home.

Author : Martin Munro,Celia Britton
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781386095

Get Book

American Creoles by Martin Munro,Celia Britton Pdf

This book examines the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South, considering figures as diverse as Barack Obama, Frantz Fanon, Miles Davis, James Brown, Edouard Glissant, William Faulkner, Maryse Condé and Lafcadio Hearn.

Author : Harold Koda,Andrew Bolton,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : UCSD:31822035613660

Get Book

Dangerous Liaisons by Harold Koda,Andrew Bolton,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

An alluring look at the relationship of clothing and interior design in 18th-century France

Author : George Washington Cable
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:718251247

Get Book

Old Creole Days by George Washington Cable Pdf

Author : Cheryl Sawyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 154974111X

Get Book

La Créole by Cheryl Sawyer Pdf

In 1756, in the midst of the Seven Years War, Ayisha fights her solitary battle for freedom.Ayisha is a slave on Martinique, who serves the Master of the plantation.She is also known as Charlotte by the Master's sister, a woman who has whimsically taught her to read aloud in French.But there is nothing whimsical about the cruel, backbreaking life that Ayisha endures on the Caribbean island where fate seems to have imprisoned her forever.In 1755 this young and spirited woman rebels against her destiny and escapes with stolen gold. Against bitter odds, she makes her way to France.To avoid capture and prison, she must disguise her identity and her dangerous purpose - to revenge herself on the Master and free her people back on Martinique. As Charlotte de Novi, Italian aristocrat, she uses a hazardous ploy to penetrate the echelons of wealth and power, but before she can exact her vengeance, two noblemen find out her secret.One is her deadly enemy.The other, Guy de Richemont, is in love with her and desperate to save her.Perfectly capturing the essence of 18th century France, La Cr�ole is an inspirational tale about the fight for freedom in a world that defies all change. Praise for Cheryl Sawyer 'This is historical fiction writing at its very best. Astonishingly vivid.' - Peter JonesNew Zealander Cheryl Sawyer has two master's degrees, with honors in French and English literature, and her career has included teaching, publishing, and writing. She has traveled to all the countries where her novels are set, and currently lives in Sydney, Australia.