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Author Garraway, Doris Lorraine, 1972- author.

Title The libertine colony : creolization in the early French Caribbean / Doris Garraway
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 412 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Creolization in the Old Regime -- Border of violence, border of desire : the French and the island Caribs -- Domestication and the white noble savage -- Creolization and the spirit world : demons, violence, and the body -- The libertine colony : desire, miscegenation, and the law -- Race, reproduction, and family romance in Saint-Domingue
Summary Doris Garraway explores the founding discourses of race, hybridity, savagery, and degeneracy in the 17th and 18th century French Caribbean, in particular the way many of these discourses were used to describe French settlers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-399) and index
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Subject Creoles -- West Indies, French -- History
Slavery -- West Indies, French -- History
Libertinism -- West Indies, French -- History
Culture diffusion -- West Indies, French -- History
Acculturation -- West Indies, French -- History
Intercultural communication -- West Indies, French -- History
West Indian literature (French) -- History and criticism
Creole dialects -- West Indies, French
Libertinism -- West Indies, French
Culture diffusion -- West Indies, French
Acculturation -- West Indies, French
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General.
Creole dialects
Acculturation
Creoles
Culture diffusion
Ethnic relations
Intercultural communication
Libertinism
Race relations
Slavery
Social conditions
West Indian literature (French)
Kreolisierung
SUBJECT West Indies, French -- Race relations -- History
West Indies, French -- Ethnic relations -- History
West Indies, French -- Social conditions
West Indies, French -- Race relations
West Indies, French -- Ethnic relations
Subject Lesser Antilles -- West Indies, French
Karibik
Franzosen.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822386513
0822386518