{"id":11175,"date":"2011-01-01T21:53:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T21:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11175"},"modified":"2015-01-06T20:26:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T20:26:55","slug":"%e2%80%9csons-of-white-fathers%e2%80%9d-mulatto-vengeance-and-the-haitian-revolution-in-victor-sejour%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cthe-mulatto%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11175","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSons of White Fathers\u201d: Mulatto Vengeance and the Haitian Revolution in Victor S\u00e9jour\u2019s \u201cThe Mulatto\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSons of White Fathers\u201d: Mulatto Vengeance and the Haitian Revolution in Victor S\u00e9jour\u2019s \u201cThe Mulatto\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nineteenth-Century Literature<\/a>
\nVolume 65, Number 1<\/a> (June 2010)
\nPages 1\u201337
\nDOI: 10.1525\/ncl.2010.65.1.1<\/a><\/p>\n

Marlene L. Daut<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies
\nClaremont Graduate University, Claremont, California<\/em><\/p>\n

Although many literary critics have traced the genealogy of the tragic mulatto\/a<\/a> to nineteenth-century U.S. letters, in this essay I argue that the theme of tragedy and the mixed-race character predates the mid-nineteenth-century work of <\/strong>Lydia Maria Child<\/strong><\/a> and <\/strong>William Wells Brown<\/strong><\/a> and cannot be considered a solely U.S. American concept.<\/strong> The image can also be traced to early-nineteenth-century French colonial literature, where the trope surfaced in conjunction with the image of the Haitian Revolution<\/a> as a bloody race war. Through a reading of the Louisiana<\/a>-born Victor S\u00e9jour’s<\/a> representation of the Haitian Revolution, \u201cLe Mul\u00e2tre<\/a>\u201d or \u201cThe Mulatto,\u201d [Read the entire text in French here<\/a>.] originally composed in French and first published in Paris<\/a> in 1837, this essay considers the implications of the conflation of the literary history of the tragic mulatto\/a with the literary history of the Haitian Revolution in one of the first short stories written by an American author of African descent.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSons of White Fathers\u201d: Mulatto Vengeance and the Haitian Revolution in Victor S\u00e9jour\u2019s \u201cThe Mulatto\u201d Nineteenth-Century Literature Volume 65, Number 1 (June 2010) Pages 1\u201337 DOI: 10.1525\/ncl.2010.65.1.1 Marlene L. Daut, Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California Although many literary critics have traced the genealogy of the tragic mulatto\/a to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,1196,8],"tags":[1062,4954,4953,10422,1728,4438],"class_list":["post-11175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-haiti","tag-marlene-daut","tag-marlene-l-daut","tag-marlene-leydy-daut","tag-nineteenth-century-literature","tag-victor-sejour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}