By Doris L Garraway
Among the texts Garraway analyzes are missionary histories via Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre, Raymond Breton, and Jean-Baptiste Labat; narratives of event and transgression written via pirates and others outdoors the authentic civil and spiritual energy constructions; shuttle debts; treatises on slavery and colonial management in Saint-Domingue; the 1st colonial novel written in French; and the earliest linguistic description of the local Carib language. Garraway additionally analyzes legislation—including the Code noir—that codified slavery and different racialized strength family. The Libertine Colony is either a wealthy cultural heritage of creolization as published in Francophone colonial literature and a massive contribution to theoretical arguments approximately how literary critics and historians may still procedure colonial discourse and cultural representations of slave societies.
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