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The Black Musketeer: Reevaluating Alexandre Dumas within the Francophone World<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cambridge Scholars Press<\/a>
\nAugust 2011
\n260 pages
\n8.1 x 6 x 1.1 inches
\nISBN 13: 978-1-4438-2997-7
\nISBN: 1-4438-2997-8<\/p>\n

Edited by:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eric Martone<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History and Social Studies Education
\nMercy College,\u00a0Dobbs Ferry, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alexandre Dumas<\/a>, author of The Three Musketeers<\/a><\/em>, The Count of Monte Cristo<\/a><\/em>, and The Man in the Iron Mask<\/a><\/em>, is the most famous French writer of the nineteenth century. In 2002, his remains were transferred to the Panth\u00e9on<\/a>, a mausoleum reserved for the greatest French citizens, amidst much national hype during his bicentennial. Contemporary France<\/a>, struggling with the legacies of colonialism and growing diversity, has transformed Dumas, grandson of a slave from St. Domingue<\/a> (now Haiti<\/a>), into a symbol of the colonies and the larger francophone world in an attempt to integrate its immigrants and migrants from its former Caribbean, African, and Asian colonies to improve race relations and to promote French globality. Such a reconception of Dumas has made him a major figure in debates on French identity and colonial history.<\/p>\n

Ten tears after Dumas\u2019s interment in the Panth\u00e9on, the time is ripe to re-evaluate Dumas within this context of being a representative of la Francophonie<\/em>. The French re-evaluation of Dumas, therefore, invites a reassessment of his life, works, legacy, and previous scholarship. This interdisciplinary collection is the first major work to take up this task. It is unique for being the first scholarly work to bring Dumas into the center of debates about French identity and France\u2019s relations with its former colonies. For the purposes of this collection, to analyze Dumas in a \u201cfrancophone\u201d context means to explore Dumas as a symbol of a \u201cFrench\u201d culture shaped by, and inclusive of, its (former) colonies and current overseas departments. The seven entries in this collection, which focus on providing new ways of interpreting The Three Musketeers<\/em>, The Man in the Iron Mask<\/em>, The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em>, and Georges<\/a><\/em>, are categorized into two broad groups. The first group focuses on Dumas\u2019s relationship with the francophone colonial world during his lifetime, which was characterized by the slave trade, and provides a postcolonial re-examination of his work, which was impacted profoundly by his status as an individual of black colonial descent in metropolitan France. The second part of this collection, which is centered broadly around Dumas\u2019s francophone legacy, examines the way he has been remembered in the larger French-speaking (postcolonial) world, which includes metropolitan France, in the past century to explore questions about French identity in an emerging global age.<\/p>\n

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