Christopher L. Miller

Preface ix

Abbreviations xv

Part One. The French Atlantic

1. Introduction 3

2. Around the Triangle 40

3. The Slave Trade in the Enlightenment 62

4. The Veeritions of History 83

Part Two. French Women Writers: Revolution, Abolitionist Translation, Sentiment (1783-1823)

5. Gendering Abolitionism 99

6. Olympe de Gouges, "Earwitness to the Ills of America" 109

7. Madame de Stael, Mirza, and Pauline: Atlantic Memories 141

8. Duras and Her Ourika, "The Ultimate House Slave" 158

Conclusion to Part Two 174

Part Three. French Male Writers:Restoration, Abolition, Entertainment

9. Tamango around the Atlantic: Concatenations of Revolt 179

10. Forget haiti: Baron Roger and the New Africa 246

11. Homosociality, Reckoning, and Recognition in Eugene Sue's Atar-Gull 274

12. Edouard Corbiere, "Mating," and Maritime Adventure 300

Part Four. The Triangle from "Below"

13. Cesaire, Glissant, Conde: Reimagining the Atlantic 325

14. African "Silence" 364

Conclusion: Reckoning, Reparation, and the Value of Fictions 385

Notes 391

Bibliography 527

Index 547