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By Doris L Garraway

Presenting incisive unique readings of French writing concerning the Caribbean from the inception of colonization within the 1640s till the onset of the Haitian Revolution within the 1790s, Doris Garraway sheds new gentle on an important bankruptcy in French colonial heritage. while, she makes a pathbreaking contribution to the learn of the cultural touch, creolization, and social transformation that ended in probably the most ecocnomic but brutal slave societies in heritage. Garraway’s readings spotlight how French colonial writers characterised the Caribbean as an area of non secular, social, and ethical depravity. whereas tracing this critique in colonial money owed of Island Carib cultures, piracy, spirit ideals, slavery, miscegenation, and incest, Garraway develops a concept of “the libertine colony.” She argues that wish and sexuality have been primary to practices of domination, legislation of exclusion, and structures of race within the slave societies of the colonial French Caribbean.

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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