- Title Pages
- Dedication
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
-
Introduction: The “Mulatto/a” Vengeance of ‘Haitian Exceptionalism’
1 -
Part One From “Monstrous Hybridity” to Enlightenment Literacy -
Chapter One “Monstrous Hybridity” in Colonial and Revolutionary Writing from Saint-Domingue -
Chapter Two Baron de Vastey, Colonial Discourse, and the Global “Scientific” Sphere -
Chapter Three Victor Hugo and the Rhetorical Possibilities of “Monstrous Hybridity” in Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary Fiction -
Part Two Transgressing the Trope of the “Tropical Temptress”: Representation and Resistance in Colonial Saint-Domingue -
Chapter Four Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Daughter and the Anti-Slavery Muse of La Mulâtre comme il y a beaucoup de blanches (1803) -
Chapter Five ‘Born to Command’: Leonora Sansay and the Paradoxes of Female Benevolence as Resistance in Zelica; the Creole -
Chapter Six ‘Theresa’ to the Rescue! African American Women’s Resistance and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution -
Part Three The Trope of the Tragic “Mulatto/a” and the Haitian Revolution -
Chapter Seven “Black” Son, “White” Father: The Tragic “Mulatto/a” and the Haitian Revolution in Victor Séjour’s ‘Le Mulâtre’ -
Chapter Eight Between the Family and the Nation: Lamartine, Toussaint Louverture, and the “Interracial” Family Romance of the Haitian Revolution -
Chapter Nine A ‘Quarrel between Two Brothers’: Eméric Bergeaud’s Ideal History of the Haitian Revolution -
Part Four Requiem for the “Colored Historian”; or the ‘Mulatto Legend of History’ -
Chapter Ten The Color of History: The Transatlantic Abolitionist Movement and the ‘Never-to-be-Forgiven Course of the Mulattoes’ -
Chapter Eleven Victor Schoelcher, ‘L’imagination Jaune,’ and the Francophone Genealogy of the ‘Mulatto Legend of History’ -
Chapter Twelve ‘Let us be Humane after the Victory’: Pierre Faubert’s ‘New Humanism’ - Coda
- Bibliography
- Index
“Black” Son, “White” Father: The Tragic “Mulatto/a” and the Haitian Revolution in Victor Séjour’s ‘Le Mulâtre’
“Black” Son, “White” Father: The Tragic “Mulatto/a” and the Haitian Revolution in Victor Séjour’s ‘Le Mulâtre’
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- (p.345) Chapter Seven “Black” Son, “White” Father: The Tragic “Mulatto/a” and the Haitian Revolution in Victor Séjour’s ‘Le Mulâtre’
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- Tropics of Haiti
- Author(s):
Marlene L. Daut
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
Examines the Louisiana-born Victor Séjour’s short story, ‘Le Mulâtre’ (1837), as a primary example of the ways in which debates over the effects of “racial mixing” were mediated simultaneously through the image of the tragic “mulatto/a” and the Haitian Revolution. Rather than celebrating the desire of the slaves to achieve freedom at any cost, Séjour’s narrative laments the psychosocial consequences of such a parricidal revolution, suggesting that slavery and “miscegenation” were ultimately responsible for the corruption, degradation, and eventual destruction of the family.
Keywords: Séjour, Tragic Mulatto/a, Interracial family, Parricide, Slave Rebellion, Faulkner
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
-
Introduction: The “Mulatto/a” Vengeance of ‘Haitian Exceptionalism’
1 -
Part One From “Monstrous Hybridity” to Enlightenment Literacy -
Chapter One “Monstrous Hybridity” in Colonial and Revolutionary Writing from Saint-Domingue -
Chapter Two Baron de Vastey, Colonial Discourse, and the Global “Scientific” Sphere -
Chapter Three Victor Hugo and the Rhetorical Possibilities of “Monstrous Hybridity” in Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary Fiction -
Part Two Transgressing the Trope of the “Tropical Temptress”: Representation and Resistance in Colonial Saint-Domingue -
Chapter Four Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Daughter and the Anti-Slavery Muse of La Mulâtre comme il y a beaucoup de blanches (1803) -
Chapter Five ‘Born to Command’: Leonora Sansay and the Paradoxes of Female Benevolence as Resistance in Zelica; the Creole -
Chapter Six ‘Theresa’ to the Rescue! African American Women’s Resistance and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution -
Part Three The Trope of the Tragic “Mulatto/a” and the Haitian Revolution -
Chapter Seven “Black” Son, “White” Father: The Tragic “Mulatto/a” and the Haitian Revolution in Victor Séjour’s ‘Le Mulâtre’ -
Chapter Eight Between the Family and the Nation: Lamartine, Toussaint Louverture, and the “Interracial” Family Romance of the Haitian Revolution -
Chapter Nine A ‘Quarrel between Two Brothers’: Eméric Bergeaud’s Ideal History of the Haitian Revolution -
Part Four Requiem for the “Colored Historian”; or the ‘Mulatto Legend of History’ -
Chapter Ten The Color of History: The Transatlantic Abolitionist Movement and the ‘Never-to-be-Forgiven Course of the Mulattoes’ -
Chapter Eleven Victor Schoelcher, ‘L’imagination Jaune,’ and the Francophone Genealogy of the ‘Mulatto Legend of History’ -
Chapter Twelve ‘Let us be Humane after the Victory’: Pierre Faubert’s ‘New Humanism’ - Coda
- Bibliography
- Index
