One. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Abbreviations xv
5. Part One. The French Atlantic
6. One. Introduction 3
7. Two Around the Triangle 40
8. Three The Slave Trade in the Enlightenment 62
9. Four The Veeritions of History 83
10. Part Two. French Women Writers Revolution, Abolitionist Translation, Sentiment (1783–1823)
11. Five Gendering Abolitionism 99
12. Six Olympe de Gouges, “Earwitness to the Ills of America” 109
13. Seven Madame de Staël, Mirza, and Pauline: Atlantic Memories 141
14. Eight Duras and Her Ourika, “The Ultimate House Slave” 158
15. Conclusion to Part Two 174
16. Part Three. French Male Writers Restoration, Abolition, Entertainment
17. Nine Tamango around the Atlantic: Concatenations of Revolt 179
18. Ten Forget Haiti: Baron Roger and the New Africa 246
19. Eleven Homosociality, Reckoning, and Recognition in Eugène Sue’s Atar-Gull 274
20. Twelve Edouard Corbière, “Mating,” and Maritime Adventure 300
21. Part Four. The Triangle from “Below”
22. Thirteen Césaire, Glissant, Condé: Reimagining the Atlantic 325
23. Fourteen African “Silence” 364
24. Conclusion: Reckoning, Reparation, and the Value of Fictions 385
25. Notes 391
26. Selected Bibliography 527
27. Index 547