Myth, History, and Witnessing in Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's Caribbean Poetics

TitleMyth, History, and Witnessing in Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's Caribbean Poetics
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2007
AuthorsDeborah Jenson
JournalL'Esprit Créateur
Volume47
Issue4
Pagination81-92
ISSN1931-0234
Abstract

Abstract Marceline Desbordes-Valmore was a witness of the upheavals of the Revolutionary Caribbean in 1802. The colonial novella Sarah indirectly represents the Napoleonic reestablishment of slavery in Guadeloupe through a plot centered on confusion over who is or is not a slave, a confusion with profound historical and philosophical valences.

URLhttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lesprit_createur/v047/47.4jenson.html
DOI10.1353/esp.2007.0066
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